It had been agreed that we keep an occasional eye on the SHP allotment while SHP people were on a 5 week course so Ed and Linda packed up their kitchen waste and gardening gloves and made their way over.

Someone forgot to tell the weeds that, despite the clement weather, it is winter and they really should be resting. Most of the plot, much of which had been reasonably well looked after, is now covered in weeds. However we are pleased to announce that the area was free of vandalism apart from the notoriously flimsy shed roof which had been attacked by the wind.

While Ed got on with making a temporary roof fix Linda (accompanied by the resident robin redbreast) offloaded the kitchen waste into the small compost bins and turned it over, she then turned the big compost pile over mixing the two big compartments. After finishing the repair Ed freed the strawberry bush from disappearing behind some weeds. The rest of the weeding will have to wait as the cold was starting to get to us by then.