Category: 2026
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The last couple of weeks at the allotment have involved construction. The post before this one details the building of a shed. Today we built a fence. The fence that was in place was in a sorry state. At some point in the past, a previous allotmenteer had planted Ivy to grow along it, it’s…
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An early delivery of our new shed gave us the opportunity to get the whole construction done in a day. The base had already been built, and put in place by last weekend, all that was needed was to make sure it was still straight, and level. While we waited for the shed to arrive…
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When we took on the allotment the area in the above photograph was under masses of weed some almost as tall as I am. We strimmed the whole plot, which took a couple of days, but meant we could finally see what we were looking at. I decided that this top corner would make a…
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I was expecting the move from a Pixel to a Fairphone running /e/OS to be a complicated procedure, and it was (in fact, is, because I’m still doing it,) but it isn’t as hard as I thought it would be. The complications mostly arise with 2FA. For two factor authentication in some apps, the application…
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Last week, I delivered several lutons to one of our customers, an error in communication meant that they were expecting more than I had. The guys discovered the shortage, and without a word spontaneously had a best of three games of Rock, Paper, Scissors, to the victor went the spoils, and the loser had to…
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Yes, you read that right, “allotments.” My husband has decided that our plot isn’t big enough. It is ready to start growing when the ground starts to warm up, but he wants a shed, and a greenhouse, which aren’t permitted on our original plot. The new plot is a bit smaller than our other allotment,…
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