November is an uninspiring time for gardeners. Days are indecently short, and the grunt work of weeding and digging isn’t balanced by the usual joy of planting.
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Nov 21
2010
2010
The flood
Our allotment is six feet from a river that Wikipedia describes as ‘the most volatile and fast-rising river in the World’. Wikipedia can be unreliable, and spelling ‘world’ with a capital ‘W’ doesn’t inspire confidence, but it’s true the Wharfe can rise and fall in minutes, sweeping people off stepping stones and (perhaps) flooding allotments. […]
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