Could I be so lucky???

[thifasmom]

OK a little background info, I have been wanting an allotment over two years now and my councils has quite few sites but with really long waiting lists :( of which I'm on a couple.

Late spring I found out there was one not 15 minutes away if you are walking from my home, it was so tucked away I never knew it was there. When I contacted the council about it I was told that it was rented out to a Society and as such they no longer had direct control of it and to their knowledge there were no plots available, when I asked for the Society's contact details, none was forth coming.

Today I was in the area so decided to take a little wander down there to see if there was anyone working any of the plots who could give me some contact details.

There was no one there but there was some contact details on a notice board, I called and left a message.

A lovely lady by the name of Helen just called to say not only are there plots (individual and community type ones) but that they don't do waiting lists, can you hear me singing HALLELUJAH!!!!

She says she is there every Wednesday and Saturday morning and I'm welcome to come and have a chat, can you see me grinning from ear to ear like a Cheshire cat :)

So fingers and anything else you can cross I'll be a proud plot owner by the weekend.

[thifasmom]

[shirlton]

Thats lovely news. Am really pleased for you

[Flighty]

You certainly could, and I'm sure that you will be! Fingers, and everything else, crossed!

[debster]

ooh fingers and everything else crossed for you

[ceres]

Hooray!  So you'll be queuing at the gate from first light tomorrow then?  ;)

[Sinbad7]

Good luck from me too  :)

[elvis2003]

thats brilliant,ooohhh good luck!
wonder what they do instead of waiting lists then?

[caroline7758]

I'd love to be part of a community plot instead of slogging on on my own. Can you tell I had a disheartening day at mine today? ;D

[Sholls]

Oooh, sounds promising; I'd be camped at the gates. Good luck!

[GRACELAND]

 :) great news /good luck

[springbok]

Well done :) Hope it all goes well.

[saddad]

Sounds great Rekella...  :)

[cornykev]

Nice one Thif, as you can see everyones proper made up for you, I can just see this Helens face when she turns up and your sitting up in your sleeping bag holding on to your Thermo flask of tea propped up against the gates.  :o        ;D ;D ;D

[thifasmom]

Oh i have been walking around this evening with a permanent grin plastered on my face, and my OH keeps  ::) at the heavens, i think he thinks I'm really sad, oh and he keep muttering about all the extra work he'll be now doing, tut it was myself and my mum who got the garden where it is :-\. not that I'll not ask him to help me out if i need it ;).

Nice one Thif, as you can see everyones proper made up for you, I can just see this Helens face when she turns up and your sitting up in your sleeping bag holding on to your Thermo flask of tea propped up against the gates.  :o        ;D ;D ;D

;D ;D I won't have to camp out thankfully as she'll be there from 10am to 13.00 so more than enough time to get the kids fed and dressed before we walk down there. gosh i can't remember when last i felt this excited.

[elvis2003]

 ;D
there will be a lot of gutted people here if ya dont get it!
i doubt your lady would get your hopes up if it wasnt feasible,i know i wouldnt
x

[Ishard]

I'm sure the allotment is yours Thifasmom as you know a lot about growing and are very committed and this is usually all the person who gives out plots wants to know.

So go grow those scotch bonnets girl! ;D

[thifasmom]

;D
there will be a lot of gutted people here if ya dont get it!
i doubt your lady would get your hopes up if it wasnt feasible,i know i wouldnt
x

gutted wouldn't describe how i would feel if i didn't get it :-\.

I'm sure the allotment is yours Thifasmom as you know a lot about growing and are very committed and this is usually all the person who gives out plots wants to know.

So go grow those scotch bonnets girl! ;D

i do hope i make the grade.

thanks everyone for all your well wishes, there are very few places i could share this info with all my excitement bubbling and without the listener/s thinking i've gone made or that i'm pathetic.

[rosebud]

 Fingers & toes crossed , Oh & of course me legs  ;D ;D ;D
Good luck  tons of it for you . ;D

[amphibian]

Daft thing is, despite the shortage of allotments in Maidstone, the council turned over an enormous site, down in Fant, to become a wilderness wildlife sanctuary, id est a six acre sprawl of brambles.

I wonder if councils will ever pull their fingers out and get around to providing the plots they are obliged to provide. In the meanwhile I am genuinly considering buyimng some land and renting it out as allotments.

[anemone]

Great news ! I'm grinning from ear to ear for you too :)