I never had the money or felt the need, and I was right. They got the same exposure to sex pests and drug dealers for free at the local comprehensive. What I do regret is not getting their names on to a waiting list for an allotment. It now takes years to acquire your ten poles’ worth of clay (ten poles being the Anglo-Saxon measure, equivalent to 250 square metres, traditionally used to apportion allotments). A few weeks ago I plaintively asked the secretary of the local

Source: The Times January 28, 2022 18:06 UTC