Hungerford allotment blog - grow your own, harvesting and vegetarian cooking. Enjoying allotment wildlife, weather and other things that catch my attention.
Enjoying time on the Marsh Lane Allotment site in Hungerford, Berkshire.
A record of successes, failures and a handy reminder for me.
From 2017 each post title brings a song to add a little extra music to the world - enjoy!
We've had a very busy month. It's been extremely wet, but luckily on a few important dates it didn't rain so it's been a lot of fun getting ready for Christmas. We had our usual trip to Oxford and I had some delicious tofu Singapore noodles in the Gloucester Green street market.
Then bought a few pressies at the Christmas Market before having a cuppa in the Covered Market - visiting some of my favourite places in the City.
The beautiful Elisabeth Convent (Belarus) convent - I should have bought more there
Back in Hungerford we saw Will Young (local singer) switch on our lovely Christmas lights and enjoyed the Christmas Extravaganza, including being in the lantern parade - this year we made the HAHA lanterns in the shape of snails.
Somebody paid me £4 for mine at the end of the parade! I gave it to The Big Issue seller.
Kerry's is now residing on her plot - although it's a skeleton again because the rain removed all the paper.
We managed to avoid rain at the Newbury lantern parade - huge compared to the Hungerford one, but we're hoping ours will grow and more people join in in future years.
It's been a very wet Autumn/Winter so far.
That's not the allotment. It's the River Kennet in Hungerford which is very full and fast-flowing at the moment. We did actually visit the plot yesterday and it was very soggy, although it was a crisp clear blue sky day. We only visited to pull some carrots for our, now traditional, carrot lox which we'll have on Christmas Day. We have our big Christmas meal late this evening.
Here's the latest addition to our Christmas tree. Unfortunately we had
to buy sprouts but we may get some from the plot for another meal this
Christmas.
We had lovely visits to family and lots of shopping trips. And this is a photo from our window as the sun set at the end of the shortest day of 2019. Hooray, we're on the way back up now - but I wouldn't mind a bit of snow before Christmas holiday is over (or maybe just at the end of the holiday so I can't drive to work)!
Here's a lovely version of this song performed by Cara Dillon. Enjoy and Happy Christmas!
Nice post and pictures. I'm impressed with the carrots. My plot is soggy as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks, and for you too. xx
Those carrots are far prettier than ours.
ReplyDeleteThey are Eskimo carrots, they do seem to grow well for us and very little damage from slugs (or something)
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