Up early in time for daily JK lesson – you will not be chavs my children. After pottering about we took Monty out for a long walk across to the playing fields where both Nat and Han ran round the field with him. They’re getting faster and their endurance is increasing.
When we got home we grabbed our bikes and set out to see the new play area that’s been built in the Osiers (a local nature walk). Less a play area and more a series of advanced exercise machines (see photos). We were gone longer than we had realised. Deb rang me when she came home to find out where we were. Cycled home to have tea and be ready to leave for the Allotment Annual General Meeting at the Civic Centre at 7.30PM
We left Nat and Han at home and Deb and I arrived at the AGM at about 7:20. Found some seats and sat back to observe the fun. As new allotment holders we both agreed it would be better to listen rather than speak. See Agenda
The meeting was sparkier than we had expected. We had envisioned, I suppose, a very gentile affair, what we saw more closely resembled the student council meeting of our youth. There was a definite tension between the two sites* that make up the society. Apparently, there have been a number of society events put on during the last year aimed at raising money to fund the building and installation of a composting toilet
on Site One (Rosamond – where we have our plot) but not on Site Two (Braunstone). Some members from S2 wanted to know this was; they were told, in no uncertain terms, that this was because when they were asked if they wanted a similar toilet they had said no. Members wanted to know why the Societies carried forward fund was so large (£7000+) and what they were going to be spent on. There was a general agreement that the committee would examine any proposals put forward by members. Possibly £1000 could be allocated to each site for specific improvements. The meeting lasted about an hour and afterward we all (Rosamond anyway) adjourned to the bar. This was the first chance either of us had really had to meet other members and everyone appeared to be very pleasant. Spoke, specifically to Pat Bates and her son Richard (?), who we sitting next too, and too others I also spoke to George, the site manager about getting society and member’s site photo’s loaded to Google Maps. I’ve previously agreed to call to his house to help him do this on his PC. About 9:15 we made our apologies and left to check that the kids hadn’t burnt the house down.
Home about 9:30, put the kids to beer, then had a few beds – are you seeing a pattern here?
*At one time The Leicester Permanent Allotment Society was a single, very large, site but during the 1970’s, I believe, part of it was sold off for housing development. The result was now 2 sites separated by the development – which was not small – in fact I hadn’t, though Deb had, been aware that there was another site.
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