Christmas is coming…
And I was rather rudely reminded of last weekend by the 3m inflatable Father Christmas outside a local garden centre. No further comment required, I think.
Allotment
Last weekend I finally managed to get myself an allotment. As the photo shows it’s in a pretty bad way. I had a stab at digging it over but the ground is as hard as concrete so I’m holding out for some rain. Instead I turned by attention to getting rid of the rotting carpet and doing something with the carrier bags of unrotted manure, which I suspect will now be of limited use for the soil. I took two sacks of weeks and two rolls of rotten carpet (which stank!) to the dump before deciding to investigate hiring a rotovator.
I hope to get the soil into a decent condition over the winter then have a stab at growing some vegetables next year. It’s something I’ve always been interested in but so far I’ve been limited to growing things in pots or odd corners of the garden so this will be a somewhat larger venture.
Bye bye car
Not really the ideal topic to kick off with but anyway…
A couple of weeks ago someone hit the back of my car whilst I was pulling out of a junction on the way home. This was a nuisance but bearable. A week ago the car went into a local garage to be repaired which was due to take about two weeks during which I would have the use of a courtesy ‘Ka’.
Yesterday the garage rang to say the cost of repairs would be more than the value of the car and that the car was therefore a total loss. And please could they have the courtesy car back. By this morning.
Arghh. After lots of phoning insurance companies, solicitors and the garage I have a car until Saturday morning but from then on I’m kind of stuck. And that’s the story so far 