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Laure's Allotment. Where beautiful things begin. Trespassers will be composted. Sign on a green gate.

Early Spring Allotment Photos

Spring is springing. The birds are singing, a few bees are lurking, buds are showing. I’m in the middle of a couple of weeks travelling up and down…

  • Post date March 8, 2026
A composit image of a youtube thumbnail from a teenager showing a before and after of herself going through a makeover. The left half has the caption "before" and a broken shed has been super imposed over the youtuber's face. The right half of the image is captioned "after" and a pink decorated shed has been superimposed over the youtuber's face.

Handmedown Shed Glow-up

When life gives you a dilapidated shed you get to work.

  • Post date March 2, 2026
A top down view of a mixture of green manure plants growing together. Mustard, forage peas, field beans, phacelia and lupins. A string of coffee pods being used as a pigeon scarer runs from the top left corner to the bottom right corner of the photograph.

Autumn green manures

How I got on experimenting with a big patch of green manures in autumn 2025

  • Post date March 1, 2026
The land mass of the UK layered over the land mass of the USA

What I have learned about the English language in sharing a discord server with North Americans

Things I have taken for granted when heckling across the pond.

  • Post date May 10, 2025
A sky view of the 75 acre St Anne's Allotments in Nottingham. A huge area of green land can be seen made up of gardens and hedgerows. Beyond residential buildings can be seen.

Community Gardens on Monty Don’s British Gardens

St Anne’s Allotments in Nottingham (pictured) and Cambridge’s Central Mosque as examples of inspirational community gardening

  • Post date February 6, 2025

What’s In A Word?

How I came across the word “pseudodementia”.

  • Post date January 15, 2025

For Idle Green Thumbs

A list of independent UK seed producers and plant nurseries I’ve been looking at recently!

  • Post date December 21, 2024

Alotment life 2024: third season

Almost every photo in this post shows an overcast sky, and yet look at all the pretty things I grew!

  • Post date November 21, 2024

Allotment 2023: second season

I did a lot! And wanted to celebrate my second year with a round up post.

  • Post date December 31, 2023
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Collage of people celebrating superimposed at stonehenge on the winter solstice

Winter brain solstice mixtape on #ds106radio

This morning (starting at 8.13am GMT, sunrise) I did an hour show celebrating the winter solstice and my brain for (almost) coping in the darkest days of the…

  • Post date December 21, 2023

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