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A Snowy,Seedy Sunday for you?
Posted on 1:15pm Friday 3rd February 2012
How will you keep warm on Sunday , if it’s a cold, snowy, seedy Sunday? Who will you keep warm with?
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Lottie and Stephen Hester
Posted on 8:30am Sunday 29th January 2012
The bonus for Stephen Hester, RBS, on his basic –yes basic compensation of £1.2 million -is worth £963,000. Interestingly this bonus would fund the cost of allotment rentals for all 2,800 tenants for 6 years. It certainly is a rich man’s world.
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£110 Lottie in a rich man's world
Posted on 9:11pm Sunday 22nd January 2012
Where are the green policies? Have the Greens knowingly agreed to allotment rentals increasing by 67% to £110?
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Mourning in Moulsecoomb
Posted on 6:55am Sunday 13th November 2011
Moulsecoomb Forests Garden has grabbed headline news this week for all the wrong reasons. Its amazing shed-a focus of the community project- has been burnt down.
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The return of the Roedale Terminator
Posted on 7:00am Wednesday 21st September 2011
If you are old, cannot saw down trees, are too handicapped to repair sheds or need to spend time with a dying relative, take care, take great care …..the terminator is coming. No one is safe, even hiding in Brighton’s beautiful Roedale Valley.
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Allotment week or “Much ado about nothing”.
Posted on 7:00am Tuesday 9th August 2011
Is there much point calling this week “Allotment week”? Surely we should have a “Waiting for Lottie” decade”?
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Monet's light summer touches.
Posted on 7:30am Monday 15th August 2011
August is the time to be with nature and let your soul catch up with your body.
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Seedy Sunday in a rich man’s world
Posted on 10:39pm Tuesday 26th July 2011
On those hot basking sunny days of August there is time to have seedy thoughts while lying back, listening to the birds and the bees, watching the wind ripple through the grass.
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Windy ?
Posted on 12:18pm Friday 8th July 2011
Are you ever troubled by wind? It’s been a strange year with Lottie, frigid in the winter, hot in the Spring, so dry in May and wind last month that toppled one of my apple trees.
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Sites of Resistance
Posted on 10:34pm Wednesday 15th June 2011
How many of us know about the struggle to liberate land in England after its theft by the Norman invaders? How many of us know of the Council’s obligation to provide allotments have been enshrined in law for over 100 years.
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Cool Killer Cucumbers
Posted on 8:42am Monday 6th June 2011
The spectacle of cold blooded killer cucumbers and terrifying tomatoes poisoning the markets of German with their organic dangers has haunted newspapers, televisions and websites through Europe. E-coli has killed scores of people, thousands are seriously ill, many of whom are in hospital
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Onwards and Upwards
Posted on 12:10pm Monday 9th May 2011
What comes out of the ground like a primordial being? What is enticed and stretched straight, onwards and upwards to the sun only to be pulled ruthlessly from its crown? What is rushed to the kitchen with sirens sounding, shown to the steam and eaten with knobs of butter and salted with pepper.
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Forget me not in April
Posted on 7:30am Thursday 14th April 2011
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels...
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Spring has Sprung
Posted on 6:11am Tuesday 29th March 2011
The clocks lept forward, the buds burst, the bees buzzed, Brighton was in blossom, the cowslips stood small,rhubarb was relished,spring has sprung.
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