Clear-up #1 - Saturday

OK, then, Day One in the HGP Allotment Project.

This, including the face behind the camera, is the first intrepid troupe who tackled Dave's five-foot-high nettles and brambles. Back row (from left to right): Wing Commander Douglas, HGP Admin, Guru Ed. Front row: Cruisy Hughesie, Joe-Local and Matty-La'.

Ah, and Ginger Joe came and joined us later.

I wasn't there at the beginning of the day's efforts, as Joe-Local will be happy to remind us all, so I think I kind of missed the Alice in Wonderland moment when the others reached the wall at the bottom of the garden.

The francophile in me can't help identifying this picture with picking grapes. Actually they're picking blackberries for the pear and blackberry crumble which we had the day after. Of course, you can actually make perfectly good wine out of blackberries, but crumble involves a bit less waiting time, eh.

Planning conference with Ed, soon after this moment to become known as Guru Ed, against his severe egalitarian objections. We'll give him a few more sessions to find his own personal horticultural banana skin, and then maybe we'll stop slavishly doing everything he says.

Watch out for that axeman.

It's possibly not the same individual wearing the hard hat in this photo. We actually need about five of those brown bins at the moment. Thanks very much to the friendly neighbours who have been letting us use theirs. Community - that's the whole point of this project.

And that concludes Day One. Soon after that last photo was taken, we were probably Dahn the Boozer, reporting back to Dave on how his garden was looking. I don't actually remember now, so yes, we probably did go to the pub.