As you know, we're vacating The Patch in the Autumn, and a strange and very special coincidence is unfolding...
There's been an enquiry at The Parish for a plot, and in fact there are only two free now - both utterly derelict and real beasts - full of couch a yard high and bindweed which covers the shed!
The Parish emailed me with the enquiry, (I help out now and then) and it turns out that it's a family we know a little, who have very young children and a small garden at home. We know it's a small garden, as they live in the very house we used to live in until we moved here!
So I'm showing them round tomorrow morning - they're a charming young family, and it would suit us for them to start right away, rather than they get demoralised over dealing with the awful jungle of the other two plots! I reckon there's nearly a year's clearing for a working family on either plot, which is not that fantastic a prospect whichever way you look at it!
We'll not see any of our Patch unused (as some bits would have been), and they can get going immediately! What could be better! I have lots of tools they can have, as they were handed down to me by another retiring gardener, and they can share all the rasps, blackcurrants, redcurrants, tayberries, etc and have the lot after October!
Fingers crosed anyway, I'll let you know how I get on!