I’m having a bit of an autumn clear-out at home. It’s the spring clean that I never got around to in the spring because I was too busy on the allotment. There is a growing pile of stuff in the hallway which is destined for the loft. The finale of this exercise will be the clearing out of the loft when everything will come back down again and sit in a big pile in the hallway until I take it to the charity shop/friends/carboot sale. On the weekend I had a similar clear-out on the allotment and sorted out all of the squashes, disentangling one plant from another, unearthing hidden winter dumplings and carting the spent foliage from one end of the allotment to the other where I filled Thomas’s newly constructed compost bin.

Before...

After... (Joseph is not the most enthusiastic about growing veg so he sits with his back to the allotment and reads his football magazines)