Pig Sty Avenue

Of course, the essential in allotment infrastructure improvement will be the shed. There's plenty of hits about this in Google, but there's an awful lot of shite, pop up adds, and most annoying of all, (maybe irrationally) blogs of misspellings, emoticons, sprinkled throughout by lols. (Why do people think it's necessary to end every sentence with a lol; the intention seems to be to signal that a joke has been made, but for we older internet-users, lol meant, literally, "I just laughed out loud to that" so interspersing your blog post with lols paints a picture of someone sitting at their keyboard, alone, laughing like an idiot at their own attempts at humour; ffs, stop it.) Nowhere can I find a really good, step by step guide to what to do. (There might be one on YouTube, but the first couple I looked at dragged me into watching ads, so I thought, "bugger this for a game of soldiers".) I did find three blog posts which, whilst not being complete guid...

What with digging over, sowing seeds, defending same against wood-pigeons, and marvelling at the survival of honesty , there's plenty to be doing. But this morning I had a eureka moment vis-a-vis the shed situation. The old shed cannot be saved, and I must have a new one this autumn. Tiger sheds do a new 8x6ft one for £299 , delivered, which isn't too bad. However, talk around the plots tells me that new sheds are the most likely to lure thieves and vandals. One of my neighbours apologised at the AGM for attracting numerous unwanted visits to her shed, which is brand new and painted purple. I have considered in the past building my own, but dismissed the idea because of the difficulty of fitting full sized pallets in a Fiat 500. The eureka moment came when I remember The Neighbour had been to a scrap yard to get scaffold boards for his raised beds... The yard delivered them free! Surely, a scrap yard will have plenty of pallets and corrugated iron? I can probably get all I ...