Where does the time go? I had a strange few months in the latter part of the year and several things were neglected, including this blog. Fortunately Julie was able to continue work at the allotment, harvesting the last of the produce – we have only purple sprouting broccoli overwintering – and starting to dig over the ground that had produced all that great food.

The shed is up. Rather irksomely, we managed to break one pane of glass as we moved it up to the site from where it had rested in the car park, so we’ll have to fix that, but otherwise it’s a sturdy enough beast. We intend to get guttering up and a water-butt installed.

There’s plenty of room inside and it’s nice to be able to stand up straight. I put a shelving unit inside today, and it will get a bit more organised over the next few weeks.

The weather was beautiful today, sunny and not too cold. Jenny and I did some digging, picking out the weeds along the first row where the potatoes were last year. She was delighted to find some forgotten potatoes as we turned over the soil and designated her wheelbarrow as carrier for them.

Julie and I sat down at the beginning of October with the King’s seed catalogue that was supplied through the allotment. A bulk order through the allotment committee enables them to get discounted stock for the allotment shop. We were intending to keep our order quite small, but laughed at ourselves as we looked through at our fairly lengthy list of seed packets. I’m making sure I don’t look at any other catalogues. Well, maybe . . .