A quick visit to the police station today to provide a statement about my shed. A lot of burglaries in the area apparently, and there are going to be plain clothes and uniformed patrols about this week. PSCO Jim tells me they'll pay passing attention to the allotment, though I suspect any would-be burglars will be put off by the forecasted ten inches of snow. He was very nice, but clearly my shed is not at the top of their list.
I paid a quick visit to the allotment after I was done at the police station. No birds around that I could see but all the sunflower seeds from Sunday were gone. I filled up all the various dispensers and topped up the bird bath. Hopefully that should hold them until the weekend.
My lucky dip seeds arrived from Thompson and Morgan. Mixed peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, some dwarf cauliflowers and Falstaff purple sprouts - which of all the hundreds of varieties in the catalogue, is one of the ones I had already ordered. The plan, incidentally, is to plant as much weird shaped and coloured veg as possible to put off the light-fingered locals who see the allotment as a free open-air Tescos.
My brassicas are still looking very pigeon pecked and frostbitten. I don't know if they'll rally. The cauliflowers are looking particularly pathetic, practically nibbled to stalks. Maybe they'll rally as the soil warms up. Early days.
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