oh dear - my first ever letter!

[1066]

PigeonSeed - been away and just caught up with the saga of Hastings
Phew!
Blimey!
WTF!

Anyway - glad you sorted it out in the end, you'll have to be A4A's expert on clearing bramble infested allotments       

1066

p.s. you're way ahead of me in prep , well done you 

[pigeonseed]

Thanks 1066!

I've signed my new contract for the plot I was actually on.

So I'm all above board I think!

[angle shades]

  result / shades x

[lottie lou]

Congrats on getting the whole thing sorted.  Watch that GKH its a thug and comes up everywhere.  As I said I have spent years trying to get rid of it.  However if you need more - let me know in spring.

[coznbob]

Just caught up too......


Well done!

[Digeroo]

Allotments are supposed to be relaxing.  Hope you can put all this stress behind you and enjoy your allotment.

[Sparkly]

Wow what a mess - poor you!

Glad to hear it is sorted.

[fi]

i think your letter was upsetting and i hope it works out for you. i cant understand why some allotment committees  send such letters without speaking to the allotment holder first. On our allotments i would rather see a few weeds,than a chemical sprayed toxic soil with nothing but moss growing on it. good luck and i'm sure once the weather permits you will get the rest cleared.

[grawrc]

Usually because the plot holder has not been near their plot to be spoken to , doesn't answer the phone/reply to emails/ respond to letter. Not the case here obviously. Nobody likes to be told their plot isn't up to scratch me included. But committees also have a responsibility to the people who do look after their plots and also to the people on the waiting list.

People are generally pretty bad at handling "confrontation" without getting angry and abusive.

[1066]

very accurate observation Grawrc - as you say a lot of people don't know how to manage a situation. Fortunately for PigeonSeed things turned out ok (ish!)

[gp.girl]

If it wasn't so horrible it would be funny 

The same thing happened to me last year. The big difference was the second later saying my allotment as  excellent (it isn't) a week later and before we could get round to phoning them 

Big, big, sigh of relief!