Easy Allotment
It strikes me that many things in life are stressful because modern living is just too complicated. How many people understand the whole of what they are involved in?
Take your laptop for instance. You understand how to turn it on, use windows, word, email and surf the net - which is great. But when it goes wrong you don't have a clue. You receive an error code, you then have to refer to some e-community to find out what the code means, and then ask for their collective experience on how to solve it.
You then find that their explanation isn't quite good enough because their version of whatever isn't quite the same as yours, and your "tools" menu isn't quite the same as theirs. And so it goes on. We've all been there.
It's the same with the car. OK you can drive it, top it up with oil, and get somebody to change the tyres. But when that amber engine shaped light comes on you start to develop a cold sweat, your hands become clammy, and your heart starts to beat disturbingly fast.
Again, you haven't got a clue what is wrong or how to solve it. All you can see is the money draining out of your wallet as your vehicle sheepishly coughs and splutters ever closer to the main dealer.
It's not like this with allotmenting. The A to Z of allotmenting is already captured in your DNA. It's the double helix bit that directly relates to allotment practice - well I think so anyway!
Ostensibly the range of skills and activities for allotmenting seems quite narrow, but all have the advantage of being difficult to get wrong. Digging, planting, weeding, composting, fence mending, sheltering from the rain in your shed, and banter over the fence.
It doesn't get any more complicated than this. It doesn't need to be. An allotment is not an untamed monster, it's a loyal and friendly Labrador.
The rest of the time we seem to be wrestling with King Kong!
Take your laptop for instance. You understand how to turn it on, use windows, word, email and surf the net - which is great. But when it goes wrong you don't have a clue. You receive an error code, you then have to refer to some e-community to find out what the code means, and then ask for their collective experience on how to solve it.
You then find that their explanation isn't quite good enough because their version of whatever isn't quite the same as yours, and your "tools" menu isn't quite the same as theirs. And so it goes on. We've all been there.
It's the same with the car. OK you can drive it, top it up with oil, and get somebody to change the tyres. But when that amber engine shaped light comes on you start to develop a cold sweat, your hands become clammy, and your heart starts to beat disturbingly fast.
Again, you haven't got a clue what is wrong or how to solve it. All you can see is the money draining out of your wallet as your vehicle sheepishly coughs and splutters ever closer to the main dealer.
It's not like this with allotmenting. The A to Z of allotmenting is already captured in your DNA. It's the double helix bit that directly relates to allotment practice - well I think so anyway!
Ostensibly the range of skills and activities for allotmenting seems quite narrow, but all have the advantage of being difficult to get wrong. Digging, planting, weeding, composting, fence mending, sheltering from the rain in your shed, and banter over the fence.
It doesn't get any more complicated than this. It doesn't need to be. An allotment is not an untamed monster, it's a loyal and friendly Labrador.
The rest of the time we seem to be wrestling with King Kong!
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