Plot update
Some days, allotmenteering with children in tow is a real joy: you feel all earth-mothery and fab. Some days it is hell on earth and you spend the entire time screeching like a harridan as they fight over the tools/throw the lovely compost out of your raised bed/climb on other people’s cold frames (a fantastic combination of breakable glass, poisonous slug pellets and other people’s property)/roll about on other people’s lovely even potato furrows/screech/whinge/climb into the car and turn the radio up really loud then cry in fright. The whinge some more for good measure.
I have come home feeling rather more harrassed than I did before* but secure in the knowledge I have at long last got in my first row of first early potatoes (“epicure”) thanks in no small part to Peter, one of the old boys, who brought up spade and rake and worked for me for over an hour – how kind. I’ve brought home the last 5 white tulips and a bag of purple-sprouting broccoli for tea as well: hooray!
*Which was already quite harrassed, thank you: C is somewhere fabulous near Milan with mountain-and-lake views from his suite; I have a largish deadline tonight; my cleaner has apparently quit, or at least not shown her face since before Easter.
April 16th, 2008 20:01
You know…. I read the title and for a second thought you were working on a novel… then I worked it out 😉
Had to laugh about the radio thing – my two have done that before with the TV – screamed with shock and terror and couldn’t undo what they’d done.
April 17th, 2008 09:21
And to think, in a few months, that will be me. Minus the dangers of other people’s property, at least, because our veggie plot is here in the garden, but still… I don’t think that’ll be much comfort, as for other people’s property, I can substitute chickens, building work (falling into foundations, anyone?) and various other trauma-inducing situations, I am sure. Oh joy, in short! 😉
April 17th, 2008 16:22
No no KW, this year will be just fine. Newborns are no trouble at all; bung him-or-her in a bouncy chair and get on with it! Next year however…have you a tesco close by for vegetables if necessary?! 😉