Thanks to the rail strikes a couple of us had an extended trip to the allotment via bicycle. The trip took us a tad longer than expected thanks to the failing of the Komoot application to send us along routes that actually existed. This meant that by the time we arrived at the allotment we were quite puffed out. Thankfully we were greeted by lots of smiling faces and cups of tea; we always seem to arrive just in time for the tea break. Accidentally on purpose, who knows? There was a good turn out this month, so instead of tea for two it was tea for ten! As always there were people of all ages in attendance all working together in perfect harmony!

The kids had been planting and watering in a new crop, some of the adults were assisting with this and others were busy weeding, watering and attending to other allotmenty tasks.

We got stuck into the sticky willy

Our job for the evening was to rid a raspberry bed of 'sticky willy'. We got stuck into the sticky willy and filled up several bags full of the stuff.

The kids were keen to show us the little pond full of tadpoles. The tadpoles themselves were hard to spot because of a complete covering of algae. I think the removal of some of this may need to be a future job for us. It's good that they have some hiding places but it's too much of a blanket at the moment. All we could see was bubbling green nodules all across the surface.

After finishing this job, and having some thoroughly lovely chats with everyone in attendance, we packed up all of the tools we had used and said our goodbyes. We also learned of some weekend allotment meets that will be happening soon, so I will be sure to list these as community missions as soon as I find out the dates.