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| Brighton Allotment June 2009 Posted 01 Jul 2009 by Lyn  looking a little short on growth at the moment but hopefully the plants will start moving on up soon!Strawberries all finsihed now but were fabulous! need some rain (but not til after my holiday please! |
| Staycation Posted 06 Apr 2009 by Justin Francis  At responsibletravel.com we've been suggesting that it would be a good idea to fly less, and than one way to do this is to travel closer to home, or to stay at home. An article in The Telegraph yesterday claimed that 38% of Brits were planning to stay at home this year http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/budgettravel/5106114/Staying-at-home-is-the-latest-holiday-trend-says-new-survey.html.Howev...more... |
| I now live in a National Park! Posted 02 Apr 2009 by Justin Francis  Yesterday the creation of the UK's latest National Park was announced - The South Downs National Park. The big news for me is that Lewes - where I live - will be in the National Park! I'm pretty pleased about that.. |
| Wintry Lewes and Birds of Prey Posted 03 Feb 2009 by Justin Francis  Yesterday we had the biggest 'snow event' (why can't the forecasters just call it a snow storm?) for many a year in the UK. All the trains and buses were cancelled and I worked from home. At lunchtime I went for a walk in the Nature Reserve just 60m from my house. Part way through the walk we noticed the gulls and crows making an enormous noise, I wondered if the Peregrine falcon that nests clo...more... |
| Brighton Allotment - Sheryl (the scare) crow Posted 01 Aug 2008 by Lyn  My niece and the rest of the family join in to make a rather funky scarecrow and have a BBQ over the fire pit..... photo to follow when I can find it! |
| Brighton Allotment - The first growing beds Posted 01 Jul 2008 by Lyn  After digging up loads of brambles etc, we managed to get some old scaffold planks and make a few sort of raised beds. The soil is crap... but potatoes grow in anything right?!!! and the spinach doesnt mind too much either.The fruit cage (made of builders anti-climb fencing - it helps to know owners of building companies!!!) is ideal for protecting strawberries from the fat pigeons! Strawberr...more... |
| Brighton Allotment - My first allotment Posted 01 May 2006 by Lyn  2007 what a fantasic view, but it is more like a rambling field than a cultivated space to grow my own food on!At 10m x 25m I certainly have my work cut out - but have been on the waiting list for 3 years - so here goes................ 2009 lots of back breaking later we are finally looking a mbit more organised!! |
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