Saturday 11th October.An interesting day started with Sue and I having a meeting with a new gardening client. She lives in a lovely house - the sitting room was filled with bookshelves on all walls - very much my thing and her eclectic garden was a joy though needing some attention. We are going to spend three days next week on a renovation blitz, which should be a lot of fun and hard work.
Later that morning we went to 12, Colworth Road, Addiscombe to witness Alan Sillitoe (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) unveil a blue plaque in honour of David Herbert (DH) Lawrence who lived there from 1908-1911 during the period he taught at Davidson Road School, which is just around the corner from our house. Alan and DH are both Nottinghamshire men (along with Lord George Byron.) Found out quite a bit about Lawrence I didn't know - Sons and Lovers was written here. At 2pm we went to Davidson Road School to listen to a talk by a Nottingham University don about Lawrence's Croydon years which seemed to major on Lawrence's women friends - and quite right too!
We both enjoyed the talk but ducked out since regrettably we felt we should do some work on our new apiary sites. A visit to a DIY store produced at painful cost eight lengths of 2x2 - this is the only material on Forster Road apiary that is not recycled apart from nails and a new roll lof builders' mesh netting. This sad purchase came about because the Fearless Tom the Timber Man was, for once, unable to come up with what we needed in the way of secondhand posts for a week or two and we have to finish the job asap.
On Sunday I will be spending my first morning in the Trading Hut at the allotments as a till-lady - much to Sue's delight. As I understand it I shall be the first male till-lady and to celebrate the fact I have cooked a Dorser Apple cake since Sue is insisting that I also act as tea-lady. No macho hangups from yours truly.
Also paid my plot rents - a hundred sobs ( now I know why they call them sobs) and arbitrated over a boundary dispute at the allotments. Ended the day with Sue studying frantically for her presentation at our Bee-Info Day next Saturday and no time really to look at our new Website - yep, at last we have something to look at -still have no idea how it works but ......
Apianus
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