My log of my allotment activities. She’s called Alice.
See also http://jim.granter.co.uk/?p=559 from September 17 2013 which I’ve just noticed!
Encouraged by my partner Barbara, I enquired about an allotment on Saturday 14 September 2013 at the Rotary Charity stall at Alsager Civic Centre; after a chat with Derek Hough, the President of Alsager Gardens Association, he gave me the Secretary’s phone number. I arranged to meet Mel Buckingham at Alsager Gardens Association shed in Cedar Avenue on Sunday 15 September. He showed me round part of the whole site and allocated me a quarter plot at 26-A2, see below. It was totally overgrown with waist high weeds but Mel reassured me that they were of a type that pulled up easily! There were signs of a plastic box, some raspberry canes and fruit bushes. It is a long walk from the entrance gate and is adjacent to the wire fence bordering the site and the playing field.
On Tuesday 17 Sep Mel, accompanied by his sheepdog Floss, delivered my key.
This is the view through the boundary fence on Cedar Avenue playing field, before I started or could visit:
Here endeth Chapter One
