Well, it was like this. Sue and I had finished our usual Saturday
morning shop at about noon. It was a lovely day. For the first time in what seemed an eternity, the sun was shining ad the
sky was that crisp winter blue that puts a smile on your face and a song in your heart. It was a good to be alive dat par
excellence.
So I said to Sue “Shall we go spend the garden vouchers we’ve
been saving up?”
We had won some vouchers at our allotment show last August and our best
friends John & Marg had given me some for my birthday last month. It was such a good day that I just wanted to make the
most of it. Sue agreed and so off we went.
Well, to cut a long story short, we went into this garden centre with
£30 worth of garden vouchers and left an hour later with £30 worth of garden vouchers and……….. a new potting
shed!
I’m still not quite sure how it happened. We parked up and before
I knew it I’d seen this really lovely potting shed and wandered in to take a look. Sue and I started to chat about how
we never had enough space to sow seeds and grow them on and how our old shed had seen better days and had never really been
big enough in the first place, and how she had always, always wanted a proper potting shed, and then, fatally as it turned
out, I saw that there was a ten percent discount offer. I found the owner and asked when the offer was going to end. He said
“Maybe today, maybe tomorrow”. Clever! I laughed. He hooked me. I bought one.
I spent the next week muttering to myself, “Can’t believe
I did that” but now I’m over the shock both Sue and I can’t wait for it to arrive. It’s due at the
end of the month so we’re spending the time clearing out and demolishing the old shed and building a base for the new.
Consequently work at the allotment has slowed but it will be worth it in the end.
I still plan to do some planting before the month is out. I want to get
my broad beans in and Sue always plants some tomato seeds this month, usually on Valentine’s Day. When she was a kid
her dad used to grow them professionally and get her to help out so she’s a bit of a fanatic. Planting them up brings
back really good childhood memories. Quite right too; that’s just as it
should be.
