Hi Rd, We lived on Mays Lane, in Earley, and our allotment was just over the motorway on the boundary of Woodley, near the Woods , the Lake and the Thatchers Pub.
It was incredibly green and fertile after being used to the cold windy North East, and the rather wild landscape, and we were amazed to see people growing melons and tomatoes and grapes outside when we first moved. The summers seemed almost tropical to us, but of course that was before global warming and since then even we have experienced quite a few super hot dry summers up here. ;D busy_lizzie