"shazzbat" wrote
"Bob Hobden"wrote in message
dahliaman.wrote
anybody want to let me know how its going on your patch

Too wet and muddy to do anything other than continue to crop the (snip)
Leeks, and Parsnips.

I took SWMBO up there last week, she sank.

And now, after threatening for the last two years, work has commenced
towards connecting the adjoining houses to mains sewerage. What this means
in practice is that I have to park down the bottom end of the site and
walk up because the track to the top end has been ripped to shreds by
their trucks and a JCB. Oh, and when I'm in the greenhouse, the bucket of
said JCB is about 12" from my head, excavating an enormous hole on the
allotment next to mine. They're going to tunnel their pipe under my G/H
and under the rest of my allotment, and later some other contractors will
come and dig two "connection pits" on my plot to join up to the pipe
they're laying now. Doubtless this will involve more track shredding and
destruction. Apart from all that, everything is just peachy.

Keep an eye on them Steve, the Water Co put a large high pressure main
through our old allotment site and mysteriously a lot of our rich topsoil
disappeared, one of our number calculated from the drop in levels that there
were a considerable number of lorry loads taken. The stuff they brought back
afterwards wasn't enough to level the site and suddenly we had Japanese Knot
Weed on the site too.

Good topsoil is a saleable commodity, be wary.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK