Donation Fever
It has been another week of gifts from all quarters; our Trustee Lorna arrived for a meeting on Tuesday bearing a gooseberry bush under one arm, a redcurrant bush in the other; then we were given some very pretty flower pots, and a huge array of Gardening Goodies were given us by Betty, who pays for our Lambeth Horticultural Society sub. Then came another gooseberry bush from one fellow allotmenter, and a stack of allotment-grown onions and potatoes - to eat - from another! I can only hope at least some of them will read this and if so I thank them once again.
I have been invited to join the Allotments Committee, which is an honour; admittedly it may only be until the AGM, when I could fail to get elected, but I have decided to accept.
We have had a good deal of interest in the Baby Grand piano I mentioned last week, which turns out to be an excellent talking-point, though not everyone has the handful of grands needed to purchase it, of course!
Deputy Chris has been invaded once again, caring for our former Business Manager’s cats; when I first saw them about 4 months ago, they were pretty small balls of fluff, but they have now grown into extremely handsome slinky felines. Chris is hoping the weather doesn’t warm up too much, as he is keeping his windows firmly shut this time after one of them leapt 30 feet or more into the car park on one visit! It was, of course, totally unfazed by the experience, which was more than could be said of the ashen-faced host when he got the cat safely back into his arms!
Unfortunately, the rest of the Community is definitely NOT with Chris on the wish for cool weather; there was a work party at the allotment today, and Muggins got the job of holding a ladder whilst another person was creosoting the upper part of the hut (alas, I get vertigo on the second step…); it was abso-tively ffffffreeeezing, and I ‘wimped out’ after 20minutes of the lower section, when it started to rain, which turned to hail, then thunder, then, then, then… ugh.
Cycling down Knight’s Hill with two blocks of ice at the end of your wrists is not a task to be done for longer than necessary, I can tell you - so much for the vanity that prevented me putting my gloves on in case they got covered in creosote from my fingers…
Take care,
Best wishes,
Elizabeth
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