by Neil Wilkinson | Jan 4, 2009 | Allotment
Another cold day, another few hours at the allotment. In fact, it was so cold the camera batteries ran out of juice so the only pictures we have are from a few days ago. Here is what we had done to the greenhouse:
Exciting, glass! We’ve actually done more than that now, we have finished the roof on one side and done two-thirds of the other. Thats 20 panes of glass in so far, about another million to go and we still don’t have any idea if we have either enough, or the right shapes. Philippa was doing the cleaning (it is amazing how full of gunk greenhouse glass gets if you just let it sit) and I was wobbling about on a ladder and pallet combination to get the glass in.
This is a picture of the bed that Pilla made for Tammy the other day, and also the compost bin I made:
Hopefully with the week off Pilla has now and another weekend we’ll get a lot more of the greenhouse done by next week.
by Philippa | Sep 30, 2008 | Allotment
Ok so it doesn’t have desks or computers or a water cooler but allotment politics are a bit like office politics. It sometimes feels like there is a rule book that lots of people have read when we haven’t even found the bookshop.
So what are all the politics about? World peace? The financial markets? Nope, greenhouses. You saw the jigsaw earlier and today we began putting it together. This in itself was a bit of an adventure which involved me having to stand on a pile of pallets to combat being height disadvantaged. But before long we had the frame mostly erected. And it was at this point that a fellow allotmenteer wandered past and in a very casual manner asked whether we had filled a form in for it. We haven’t, but we did know that we had to get one and had asked for a form last week, so no problem there. But then he said, and this was in even more of a casual manner and accompanied with a sucking in of air through the teeth, “it might be too big”.
What?!?! The greenhouse has been in pieces on our plot for over a month now and many have admired it in passing. Many have been told of it’s dimensions. Yet no one has mentioned the rule about the maximum size for greenhouses! Cue a few panicked phone calls to allotment committee members and finally it looks like we are ok with the greenhouse going up (partially because our plot is so barren that we need all the growing space we can get!). Phew. So here it is…
Check out the fence! Finally finished it is our pride and joy. And it is soon to be green.
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