Our allotment time
Thin on the ground
Clarke Hayes goes in search of London’s promised lands
What, apart from love, can money simply not buy? What much-coveted treasures lie sprinkled about London, half-hidden, close by, but tantalisingly out of reach to those who seek them? I speak of allotments — in theory and in law available to all of us, but in reality pieces of promised land far, far away.
Allotments are seriously in vogue, and now we even have a film, Grow Your Own, to prove it. Allotment holders know the simple pleasures, but also the hard work and many frustrations involved in tending a plot; they also know something else: they possess a piece of gold-dust not to be conceded under any circumstances.
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