We managed to get something resembling a greenhouse up (above). Now all we need is a roof and a door…
Also spotted our first fauna – a fox and these little fellas (below), as well as their amorous parents.
Mar 31st, 2008
We managed to get something resembling a greenhouse up (above). Now all we need is a roof and a door…
Also spotted our first fauna – a fox and these little fellas (below), as well as their amorous parents.
Mar 4th, 2008
While I skulked over to Edinburgh for a game of hockey on Saturday, Chhay & Mike turned over most of the remaining beds at the allotment. The greenhouse is still in parts on the ground until we can organise a posse large enough to hold it all in place while we screw it together.
Spring greeted [...]
Feb 24th, 2008
We tackled our less than complete greenhouse as our first significant project. Once we determined that the extisting frame wasn’t suitable for any of the pile of existing windows we have on site we distmantled most of it down to the floor (above). Having clad the back walls with the tin that had unsuccessfully formed [...]
Feb 8th, 2008
Last weekend we travelled over to Edinburgh for a taste of culture from the capital. In the morning we followed up our Gillespie Kidd & Coia exhibition visit to take in the Basil Spence exhibition at the Dean Gallery. Another of Scotland’s post war modernists, I found his work much more inconsistent than the Glasgow [...]
On our first full day with our new space we attacked the existing mess and got the place looking a little bit tidier. Mike also discovered a love for ‘moving things about and putting them in little piles’. We transformed an old bath into our fire pit to burn a lot of the waste (below).
Chhay [...]
Jan 29th, 2008
To get to our allotment we can simply head up the Kelvin which runs past our flat via the botanic gardens and through some of the less salubrious areas of Maryhill with tags extorting the value of various ‘young teams’. While it is a bit grey at the moment in summer I think it will [...]
Jan 24th, 2008
Our friends Lyn & Craig had delivered a bounty of produce from their allotment last summer, converting a decrepit plot into a functioning garden. However the purchase of a house in the ‘burbs with its attendant garden had lead them to share their space with us this year. The allotments sit on a hill on [...]