Allotments.

Growing your own veg has become very fashionable in recent years and the demand for allotments is no longer confined to old blokes in flat caps and Corderoy trousers, who after a bit of gentle digging and a natter with their mates, retire to their sheds for a puff on their pipes, a cup of tea brewed on their calor gas stoves and a quiet flick through their hidden stash of porn mags. Now the young and trendy want their own strip of garden in order to do some organic growing so that they can talk , with some degree of knowledge, to any serious gardeners they might run across in the pub. The queues for allotments are lengthening.

One of our regular readers and contributers, Foxy, has been on the waiting list for an allotment for eight years and wants to know what the criteria are for getting the lease on an allotment. Obviously there may well be a situation where leases do not come up for award very often but resentments are bound to build up when it is rumoured that at least one individual has aquired more then one allotment and are using them for commercial purposes.

Perhaps someone involved with the allocation of allotments can set the record straight.