Boot_WB

(At the risk of lowerning the tone) I'm still worried about the "seed exchange"

Hi Paul, I looked round them all on one wintry afternoon - lots were incredibly boggy, some were just insanely overgrown, and some were indistiguishable form one plot to the next (I think I saw a badger's sett on one as I "garden hopped" across two vacant plots at the east end of the plots. The one I chose has a good structure form the ahrd work of the previous tenant. It's obviously gone to seed for a few years, but the main work will be digging out the terraced beds and ripping out the ivy. At least there were no rivers running through it - unlike many ofthe plots on that cold wet afternoon. Am looking forward to the meeting - could someone post details up here, as I don't think I'm on the mailing list yet - only just sent my tenancy agreement back.

I've just signed a tenancy agreement for plot 163 on Hagg House, Am doing a bit of reading through the forums, and quite glad to see the formation of an association. One of the posts in this thread mentions a possible meeting in May (I missed the 10th March one by a couple of weeks) - has this been organiesed yet? I'd like to get involved. I've just added this group to my favourites. 163 is at the carpark end of the third row in from Bole Hill Lane. It's woodland after that - very peaceful. The previous tenant obviously put a lot of work into terracing it - the Ivy has since done a wonderful job of covering up all his/her hard work, but it's in a lot better condition than some of the swampland over that end of the allotments. When I went looking round Hagg House last saturday (in the halestones) to choose an allotment it was extremely muddy. In my naiivity I had thought those lines on the map in-between the allotment were paths :-p. It was impossible to tell in many cases where the boundaries of the unallocated allotments lay. It was extremely helpful where some people had displayed plot numbers on their boundaries, and it may be a good idea to do this in a rudimentary way on the vacant allotments - it would be very helpful for those looking round to choose their allotments. I'm really looking forward to starting work on my allotment, but it will have to wait until next payday for me to afford tools.

Damn straight, I'm using my 200MHz PowerPC amiga here with 258mb ram, Soundblaster 128, 8mb permedia graphics card, USB 2, fastethernet, zip drive, CDRW, etc IDE hard drives have been standard on the platform since the release of the amiga 1200 (circa 1992). OK, not quite competing with the PC atm, but the OS still kicks the ar5e out of windoos. The last hardware to be produced was the EYETECH manufactured amigaONE running 1GHz G4 PPC on a brand new motherboard. Badly designed, lack of support, the company which produced the motherboards (MAI) vanished and loads of bugs became evident. Oh and at around £700 for the motherboard/CPU combo... bit beyond my price range. IF you're interested check out amiga.org, amigaworld.net, eab.abime.net for all the latest infighting and vapour news regarding the latest operating system (OS4 - yet to be final-released) and the farcical lack of hardware to run it on. Damn shame really. The amiga community contains some fine people though, in my experience very supportive and helpful.