Tag Archives: January

Allotment Adventures: Ignoring my own advice

Posted on January 8, 2025 by nicdempsey

Occasionally someone asks me for advice about getting an allotment and the only advice I have is go often. Don’t be mad keen in summer and ignore it from October until March. This year I just failed to take my … Continue reading →

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Monday Miscellany: 2025

Posted on January 6, 2025 by nicdempsey

Happy Monday! I was planning on having a strong autumn and winter as the end to 2024 but in reality, I fought 2024 to a draw and honestly it could have been worse. That meant this space got neglected as … Continue reading →

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Monday Miscellany: Back in the game…

Posted on January 29, 2024 by nicdempsey

Happy Monday! Well, in true to form, the last couple of months of 2023 flattened me…. So here are the headlines. Christelle’s dad died at the beginning of November, which meant at short notice, she and Mike had to go … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: A New Season

Posted on January 24, 2024 by nicdempsey

While I have been away from the blog, I have visited the the plot. We haven’t done a ton of work, Ma is only coming every other week and there has been lots of other stuff going on. There has … Continue reading →

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The Kitchen and Plans for the flat

Posted on January 31, 2023 by nicdempsey

I’ve lived in my little flat for 13 years. When I was originally looking for a flat, the estate agent asked me to list the three most important things to me and I said a kitchen, unfurnished, I could put … Continue reading →

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Monday Miscellany: Living with Mother

Posted on January 30, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Monday! As you may have guessed from the title, I’m now at Ma’s for the next two to three weeks, if it goes into four, I may have to check into a hotel to preserve our relationship and our … Continue reading →

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Eat Real Food

Posted on January 26, 2023 by nicdempsey

I hope I’ve been honest about how I cook and eat food because it’s important. What we eat is important for our health but it’s not only that. We live in a world that is experiencing climate crisis. Where not … Continue reading →

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Sunday Music: Scritti Politti – Umm

Posted on January 22, 2023 by nicdempsey

It just popped into my head this week so here it is…

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Friday Links: If you think everything is fine, you’re not paying attention

Posted on January 20, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I don’t know about everyone else but it feels like 1992 (I’ve been saying that for a while), back then, things felt awful but I’d not really known anything else, Thatcher came to power when I was five, … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Soggy and Bedraggled

Posted on January 18, 2023 by nicdempsey

Despite the rainy weather, all the packing and moving and, the excessive socialising I did at the weekend. Ma and I did get a very short trip to the plot last Saturday. It was wet and looking bedraggled. It’s in … Continue reading →

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