In order to do something different each week of the year, I have a list of challenges to undertake...

Sunday 7 July 2013

Week 27 - Join in with the Work Party

A couple of times a year we have a Work Party at the Hill allotments where I am the proud tenant of half plot 16a, whereby all plotholders are invited to help out with the general maintenance of the site. This is met with heartfelt groans by all, of course.

The Work Party taking place at this time of year is because our site competes for the Thorpe Memorial Trophy which the City of Birmingham awards to the best allotment site in Birmingham. It would be remiss of me not to mention at this point that we have won this competition twice in the past three years.

Judging takes place from tomorrow onwards, so it's a general pitch in - primarily by the hardworking committee, frankly; and some other plotholders too - in order to bring the site up to snuff. It's not the individual plots that are judged, but the site as a whole, so the access road, car park and communal areas all need to be neat and tidy.

Actually, there was not a bad turn out, and many hands do, indeed, make light work, and at the end of a busy couple of hours in the sunshine we had the car park hedges trimmed, the roadway weeded, accumulations of leaves swept up, and neat and tidy planted up troughs by the club house.






















A good job (and my week's Challenge) done!

2 comments:

  1. Just goes to show that there are still caring, hardworking people around even though the world seems to be in turmoil. Hope you win again this year. From those 2 tiny photos they look very well tended.

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    1. I must remember to take a few general shots of the allotment site to show you, Sue - it is looking very pretty at the moment.

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