PortabelloBelle
The thoughts of an ordinary person
Category: Uncategorized
-
There were moments when I wondered why I’d bothered, but there were highlights. For the first 3 months I was only at work intermittently. Cataract surgery meant I couldn’t drive for a while, and there being little else for me to do I used some annual leave. (“Sick pay” is woefully inadequate.) By March it…
-
A lot of effort has been put in over the last 2 months. The first couple of weeks were spent just getting to a point where we could start thinking of the plot as an actual allotment, and then the real work started. Our first target was getting a polytunnel put up, which we had…
-
When we moved home a few years ago, we applied at the local authority for an allotment. We already had been growing on a plot near our old house, but it was a long way to go. We kept it on as a stop gap. 4 years passed. Having had no information from the local…
-
Following my recent cataract surgery I haven’t been able to drive my truck, so I’ve been in our wrapping department. It is a less demanding role, but has made a refreshing change of pace, and I have managed to make some improvements in that area of the factory. I don’t know if those changes will…
-
A quick introduction: I’m a female truck driver, a wife, a Socialist, a humanist, and a mother of cats. I live at the junction of Buddhism & secularism. I don’t know how much I’ll use this site, but I’d like to think it’ll be enough to keep you coming back to see ” What the…
PortabelloBelle 