So, here is the news. After making a few cheeky enquiries, I have the assurance that my allotment, originally given to me on a six month "trial" basis, is now mine. I can pay my £50 annual fee in the new year, at which point I become a fully fledged, official allotmentier. This makes me HAPPY, and I hope it makes you happy too.
The possibilities! Sarah, my incorrigible friend and fellow plant enthusiast, and I have already met to talk about seeds and make various plans for the future, as alluded to in a previous post. Now that this is all "official" though (or as official as it can be, allotment people are a very laid back lot) my imagination is really starting to run wild.
Let's talk about the shed. A humble, and deceptively simple artefact is the garden shed but even a little digging about online reveals a rich subculture of enthusiasts and an enticing niche history of its own. Here is George Bernard Shaw modelling his very own "rotating writer's shed", which sat on a turntable so that he could rotate it through the day to keep facing the sun (image courtesy of Apartment Therapy).
Other literary figures with a fondness for sheds include Roald Dahl (nicknamed "mouldy" by his family for this very reason) as well as Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf and other dignitaries.
Here is the shed that currently sits on my allotment, outside:
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| Pathetic. |
and in:
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| Mouldy. |
It's barely worthy of the term "shed" if you ask me. For starters, it's made of plastic and I think we can all agree that all sheds must of necessity be made of wood. What's more, it's full of holes, only one of which was ever a window; the other is a door (frame, with no actual door) the other is just...a hole. This is no good. It'll have to go. So the question becomes, what to replace it with? And here the adventure begins.
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