Our plot So Far.

This is what we had to face last April. So very over grown that we never thought that we would get it cleared! But we did, Well may be not me but my Dear Wife sheila and 1 of my Daughters Theresa helped. We also had some help from the next door plot holder who did a bit of digging. That was last year and you know how hard all the ground was, well it took some doing.

We also said that we would like to keep some chickens on our Allotment! We were told that we can have up to 24 chickens but no cockerels at all. So breeding birds at the plot is out of the Question. It took us a few week to get straight, but we got there and by late July the hen house was built and by September we were able to get our 10 chickens.

The chickens started to lay about 3 /4 weeks later and then we only got 2 or 3 but when they started to lay they laid and for months. But the cold weather we have had have made them lay 6 / 8 eggs a day.Yesterday we got our first 10 of the new year.

Well we went over to our allotment this morning 1 To clean and feed the Chickens and also to see how many eggs we had. But by 11.00 o'clock we only had 1 egg.

While Sheila was cleaning and feeding the Chickens I was in the Shed making tea as I always do.

Why Are you making the tea and your wife is doing the work?? Well I'll tell you I am Disabled and have a bad Heart condition that means for the past years I've had to use a Wheelchair when I'm outand when I'm at home I can just about go around our house but only on the ground floor as the stairs are a no no at this time.

• When I look back onto my life the past 18 years they have been some and I say some good times but in the main it's been a Bloody Nightmare, I have had no family on my side ever turn around and help us. We've always had to look to each other for help. As my spine is getting even more knackered, I'm find ing it even harder to get around or do things in the garden or on the allotment. I've said I'm having to use a wheelchair when I'm out and so when on the allotment I use an old kitchen chair to sit on and work from. Because Iwas lucky enough to get an electric Scooter. Which is now making my life and that of my dear wife a lot easier as she does not have to push me around and I have got back my Independence or atlest some of it.