Sunny today, thank goodness after another few days of heavy rain – the tail end of the hurricane over north America. Cycled to the allotment and got stuck in – so good to be working outside in the sun, Malcolm was there, haven’t seen him since September. Started by tidying the borders around the comfrey bed, its a job that doesn’t often get done, as comfrey isn’t really a pretty plant, although the purple flowers really attract the bees in the summer, although as the leaves are scythed down four or five times during the season the bees seldom get to enjoy the flowers. Then weeded the two large bags next to the compost pit and manured. Then Cliff from across the way came and said that there were slabs going from one of Richards two allotments. He has been ill and has given up his allotments. So managed to grab 33 of these. Great! They’ll come in useful for the braai area. Then completed the border on the path between my allotment and Jason’s. Then I removed the old plank borders from the strawberry bed and the raspberries. There is going to be a onfire on Richards old allotment tomorrow, so I threw them on the pile. Then used our new budza to weed the fruit bush area. So a really productive four hours today.
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