What I did on the plot today 2016

This afternoon I went along to check the aftermath of the mighty roaring fire I had yesterday. When I took these plots on in  1986 there were some already-old-and-rickety sheds along the back. During the past year one of these actually fell down  -  I'd just been using them for things like onion-drying spaces, and random storage of stuff like the massive collection of 5-litre plastic bottles I use for springtime cloches. So I knocked down another, piled up all the debris, topped it with scores of tall sunflower stalks and other trimmings, stuffed it with 2 months worth of newspapers, and with one match it was blazing.
The rule on our site is that you can have fires after 6pm, or 'at dusk', whatever that means. I put the match to it at about 3pm, and was still there nearly an hour after sunset, at 4.45. Though the thermometer was below zero, I got jolly hot!  There being no wind at all forecast, and a cold frosty night with its elements of dampness, I judged it would be OK to leave it with the embers flaming slightly. Fortunately I was right (this time), and this afternoon there was a large, neat, satisying pile of ash.  The remaining old sheds and various bits of debris will be piled there over the next few weeks.
Then on to planning and building the splendid new 'dacha' to occupy the space of the old sheds. As I'm up-to-date with all the cultivation aspects of the plots I'll have the luxury of plundering my son's collection of old timbers, windows, etc, and attempt to come up with some fascinating Heath-Robinson structure...