A Plot Too Far? Two allotments, two different sites. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Proposed Allotment Rent Increases in Sheffield. Summer time and the living is. All a bit mad really. What with kids being off school, going on holiday, the allotment going mad and job hunting.

Enjoying the simple things in life with my little family. Herman the German Friendship Cake. The rays of the sun. Thunder storm and raindrops on roses.

I decided to check and weed through the main flower patch where I mostly grow the annual pot marigolds. Poached egg plants and collomia grandiflora. Most of these seedlings I will pull up and add to the compost heap as I only want about twenty plants and room for other flowers. It was National Puppy Day. On Friday which was apt as I met Billy, a lovely six month old.

However, I am a month early! They looked so ready! And the girls were all ready, especially my youngest, ready to monkey her way up the olive tree. So we collected the olives and while Juventus played Barcelona I sliced olives. Posted in in the garden.

Where growing, making and good living come together. Hi! Sorry, got a bit overexcited there, I do like meeting new people. Would you like me to bring you a shoe? 8211; f.

Goodbye to the Tree Year. Dear Tree Year contributors and tree lovers. Now that the International Year of the Forest and 2011 ends, we say goodbye to this Tree Year Project. For now, I want to thank you all.

Making the most of what I have. Welcome to Small Plot Big Ideas. And website which is intended to follow our fairly major change of direction at a time in our lives when we should have known better.