First Visit

29th December 2008

On the first time I ever went to my little patch of soil in a place called Towerfields in Great Baddow I had forgotten my plan which showed me where my plot was located, I knew the number of the plot but as this was not marked out in the site I could not be sure which was mine. I spotted one which was covered in a thick layer of dead twitch grass and hoped and prayed it was not mine.  During my next visit with my plan in hand this time I discovered that the straw-like plot was indeed mine, not a scrap of soil to be seen under a thick carpet of dying grass....oh dear this was all beginning to look like a lot of hard work.

On Monday the 29th December I arrived back at the plot alone with fork and spade in hand and set to work. I'd remembered the combination to the lock for getting myself in but this was not required, the lock had gone and all and sundry could happily make their way and grab whatever they could. To this day the lock is still nowhere to be seen. In complete isolation I got down on hands and knees (no gloves!!) and proceeded to grab handfuls of grass, fortunately at this end of the plot it seemed easy to pull it off the top layer and I soon ended up with a pile of the stuff in the nearest corner