The Office.

This was the view outside the house two days ago: it was beautiful.



The thick covering from Thursday night was melting fast. By Saturday afternoon it was nearly all gone: yesterday's panorama would have looked very different two hours later.

When we woke up this morning, however, it had been snowing again:


Any plans to work on the plot were out.

By about 1.30pm, the roads and the sunny half of gardens had thawed, so I took a boot load of stuff (i.e. mainly junk) to the allotment. The road through the plots was a river of melt water: normal shoes would have been impossible. With wellies on I made it to the shed. The ground was the muddiest I have known it.

What I did do, however, was turn some of the junk into shelves for the shed, i.e. I chopped a pallet in half to make shelf ends, and stacked everything else up. What I've ended up with it a nice desk. Looks like I may have a summer office if I keep it tidy!



Back home, it was so warm (about +4C, but I had thermals on) that I decided to stay outside for a few hours and tidy the garden; a much neglected place since we've had the allotment. I didn't get back ache for once. A clear sign that the allotment is doing me some sort of good.