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My own bit of Ecotherapy

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So, I will be the first to admit that gardening is not an area where I excel. Despite this, I acquired an allotment towards the end of last year. Why get an allotment if you're not very good at gardening you might ask...? When the first wave of the pandemic hit and we were in lockdown, the idea of having somewhere else to go and growing my own produce appealed to me massively. Similarly to how some people rekindled old hobbies and discovered new ones, I wanted to give it a go. My first hurdle was that I had no idea about allotment waiting lists. Just over a year and a half later (way past that first lockdown) which is still quite quick, I was offered a 7.5 rod (google it) plot. Yep I had no idea what a rod measurement was either but I knew from the information sheet that the average size was 10 rods. So I thought ahhh 7.5 sounds just right then. I excitedly went to visit the plot that I was offered and low and behold it was about twice the size I thought it would be. It was also in...