In this post I cover an oft-requested topic. How my allotment centred life has helped me manage Adult Onset Still’s Disease (AOSD) and Fibromyalgia. AOSD is a very rare auto-inflamatory disease, as a result the information on the web is drawn from a small sample of patients and isn’t very...
In this video I explain why I started an Allotment, what it means to me and how the three plots work together as a little Allotment empire. In brief, I retired a couple of years ago due to ill health and I got an allotment to fill the time that...
Quite a few people have asked me how we cope with three allotments. This video gives a good impression of what a typical day looks like, there’s not as much weeding as some would suspect!
I’ve been interviewed on the radio every day this week, if you are keen on gardening or even better have an allotment, you might like to listen to the interviews, each one is only a few minutes long. The links jump straight to the interview. I also cover how the...
It’s taken me a while, but I’m now in a suitable mood for setting new years resolutions. December saw me laid up with man flu and January had me mostly confined to the house with food poisoning and a torn stomach muscle, but all these problems are now fading and...
Although New year’s resolutions seem to be going out of fashion I still like them. I print them out and stick them on my desk wall but I also have them on my phone in Google Keep, each one decorated with a nice photo as a visual reminder. I think...
This post isn’t for me, I’ve already committed to retirement, it’s an answer to the regular stream of friends and colleagues who ask me this question, it’s my attempt at a well thought through answer, rather than a quick email reply. To get started it might be worth taking a...
I’ve come to the end of my first calendar year as an allotmenteer and it’s been life changing, I expected to enjoy growing my own food, but it turned out that there were lots of benefits that I really didn’t expect to get from the allotment: the wonderful sense of...
It’s rare for me to buy things for myself, but occasionally eBay presents me with a bargain that I can’t resist. A couple of weeks ago it was a brand new ThinkPad x230 (for Tessa), still my favourite laptop, for only £200, it’s as light as the very best machines...
I’ve hosted this blog on PressHarbor for many years now, probably close to the 12 years that they’ve been running. In all that time I’ve found it to be the most enjoyable of experiences. The platform has been rock solid and the support has been superlative, top quality advice, fast...