Unfinished Business

Good evening all who dare to join me! 

As you will of realised by now (maybe) I am the queen of the unfinished project. If I may expand. I've given up on the allotment. It may surprise you to know that growing, maintaining and even thinking about plants is hard bloody work, and I appear to have an allergy to said form of exertion. Basically, I couldn't be arsed.

I decided that 'The Good Life' just isn't for me, especially at the moment, what with kid's, work, pot washing and not giving a shit. But I've now had two "not good for me at the moment" moments and have therefore drawn the conclusion that it's clearly not for me.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of growing, tilling the land and all that shite, but when it comes to the crunch, I'm just not crunchy. I'm rather like a box of unwanted bran flakes, long opened and forgotten about. More soft and flaccid than crisp and crunchy as far as allotment work goes anyhow. I should just plan somebody else's allotment, I'd be awesome at that. Fantastic even, telling them what to do, researching what to put where, what not to put where and what to definitely wash your hands after touching, before going to the loo! That's it! I'm going to write a book on how to be an allotment owner without an allotment. Problem solved. I am winning!

Well, now we've gone over what I'm not good at, here's what I appear to be awesome at. EATING. Do I want to be talented at this? Hell no! But it appears to be one of my top 3 talents at least. as I can't stop shovelling crap into my mouth! If I could only dig potato trenches as well as I can dig into the biscuit tin, the allotment would be thriving. 

I've put half a stone on again this year because I stopped going to fat camp, so I need to start that up again or I'll end up growing chins, better than I ever grew cucumbers! So Slimming World it is, planning food and being aware of hand mouth coordination.

Well just a short and sweet entry about nothing in particular, as most of my type style dabblings appear to be. Good night, sleep tight and finger's crossed that I don't have an extra chin upon waking! Good God, I really must move that biscuit tin!

Happy New Year!

Whoops! Put 4 pounds on over the festive period 😱 and i'm not showing any signs of gaining control over my eating!! This must stop, weight goes on far too easily so tonight I'm going to write a menu and a shopping list and then I'm going to stick to the bugger! Celery for breakfast, lunch and dinner! I think not, but definitely need to cut out the crap!
In other news; I've got a new allotment! When we last got hold of one, my lad was just tiny and then it was too hard for me personally, to get digging between breast feeds. I'm fairly sure there are some wonder mum's out there who can strap on a papoose, grab a fork and dig up spuds to sell on their market stall whilst breast feeding on one boob and expressing the other. But alas, sad as it is, I cannot count myself among them.
To be honest, my gut feeling is telling me it's still too soon. Ideally, I would like to wait until little fella is at school, so then I could really put some time into it. As you can see from the picture, there is a lot of work to be done, and since we got it, someone has already been on trashed the gate and stolen chairs so I'm already a little disheartened by the ordeal. Fortunately they weren't my chairs, they were on the plot already, but not the point. Some people are turds! Putting it politely of course.
Anyway, moving on to my more positive feelings of allotment excitement, I've bought myself some tools yay! I've watched some you tube videos, and now counting myself among the professional joiners of the world (PAH!) I'm going to (attempt to) make a fence out of the pallets that we have up there. It's a dear old do starting up an allotment, so the best thing I can do is make the most of what's up there already, if it hasn't been pinched by the next time I go up there that is.
Well readers, wish me luck with my allotment endeavours, hopefully I will get somewhere with the raw wilderness that has been bestowed upon me.
Happy New Year!!!
Ps. If anyone has any advice at all on clearing a hideously overgrown allotment, please comment below, would love to hear anything helpful. Cheers!