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Well, the allotment plot is now more or less completely dug over, the wild raspberry and blackberry brambles cut back and tamed, and the potatoes dug out.
We can't take full credit for the digging, though, as sister-in-law Julia and her husband Doug have very sportingly stepped in to give us a hand.
But we did resort to the good old-fashioned manual method of grafting with a spade, rather than hiring a rotavator.
I BLAME the lure of a few packets of free seeds on our new allotment. Sat vegging out in front of BBC Gardeners' World back in the spring and up popped a feature on their Dig In campaign, a national grow-your-own-grub initiative.
And with it came the offer of a bunch of free seeds to get you started - squash, beetroot, Lollo Rossa lettuces, tomatoes and carrots among them.
We have made a start with our shiny new tools, digging over a few patches of rock-hard mud. Goodness, this is heavy going...
We are seriously thinking of hiring a rotavator to turn over the whole plot. I like the idea of a blank canvas, and starting from scratch.
Paul's looked into prices - not bad for a weekend. Might put up a card in the allotment shop window asking if someone wants to share the cost.
Husband Paul celebrated a significant birthday a few days ago - and we held a massive surprise party in his honour. All 70 people at his sister's house in Northumberland doing that scary 'surprise, surprise' thing.
And because of the new allotment he got masses of gardening equipment - spade, rake, hoe thing, hand tools, smart gardening gloves and vouchers galore for the garden centre...
Just back from hols and we've popped up to the allotment site - taking friends with us to 'show off' the site.
Again, alarmingly, this followed tea at Scalini's in the Three Mile Inn. Oh dear, a pattern emerging here.
Today's the day we officially get our prized keys to the big allotment gate - and thereby entry to the green and serene Three Mile Allotments site.
Wow! Exciting times for us. Only four months on the waiting list and now our very own veggie patch is within our grasp.
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