Throwback Thursday On The Allotment

On 02/04/2015 By TontowilliamsIn Fork To Fork, Garden / Allotment, Video

Summer still seems like a time away, so here’s a look back to 2011.

Local Tour – The Gillies Allotments from tontowilliams on Vimeo.

Allotment Video Update 28th March 2015

On 28/03/201528/03/2015 By TontowilliamsIn Fork To Fork, Garden / Allotment, Video

Allotment Video Update 12th March 2014 & 14th March 2014

On 14/03/2015 By TontowilliamsIn Fork To Fork, Garden / Allotment, Video

I finally managed to get the video I recorded earlier in the week to upload so here it is, scroll down for more recent updates.

Since then I’ve been busy planting broad bean seeds (eight rows), peas and rainbow chard. I’ve also dug trenches for my early potatoes, which weather permitting will probably go in on Monday. The temperature however has dropped from a balmy 11° when I shot the video above to around 2° this morning.

To The Garage With The Car

On 03/02/201504/02/2015 By TontowilliamsIn Simple Things, Video

I had to take the car to the garage today. Like many visits, this one was necessitated by a strange knocking noise. Fortunately nothing too serious or to expensive. I did manage to take a few photos and some video on my train ride to and from the garage though.

http://instagram.com/p/yohsQdPrDV/

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Allotment Video Update 17th January 2015

On 18/01/201518/01/2015 By TontowilliamsIn Garden / Allotment, Uncategorized, Video

A cold start on the plot with frozen padlocks.

I’ve also created a 2015 Allotment album on Google+ so that I can post all my 2015 allotment photos to one place. Here’s a link

Allotment Video Update 6th December 2014

On 06/12/2014 By TontowilliamsIn Garden / Allotment, Uncategorized, Video

It was a frosty start to this morning, with the temperature down to -4 Celsius. Given the weather and my work commitments over the last few weeks this is the first proper visit I’ve made to the allotment, beyond checking that everything is in order. I’d laid down some tarpaulin a few weeks ago when it was so wet in order to keep a patch dry to allow me to start the winter dig. Here’s a video update from this morning.

I also took a few pictures:

Allotment Update 18th October 2014 & A Walk In The Rain

On 19/10/2014 By TontowilliamsIn Dogs, Garden / Allotment, Video

I thought it had been a couple of months since I last did an allotment video, I didn’t realise that actually I haven’t recorded one since the middle of July. Anyhow despite that, here’s one from yesterday.

I also ended up taking a longer than expected dogwalk in the rain later in the day, and here are a few photos from that. I have to say I actually enjoy walking in the rain, I find it therapeutic somehow. I seem to notice more of the world around me than I do normally.