RSPCA Freedom foods (JOKE)

I am fuming I was referred to this video form a forum member here this is a utube video from channel 5 I think its the news but not sure, when I viewed it it made my blood boil the sickening images of what should be relatively happy chickens free ranging and existing in much better conditions due to RSPCA Freedom foods.
About 4 years ago me and my wife stopped eating chicken due to poor welfare conditions, and as we could not afford organic chicken unless it was on offer or something, this made eating chicken special which was great, we would only eat free range eggs, but even then I was not entirely happy with shop brought ones.
But then hugh fernly w...... cant spell the other bit brought chicken welfare to the public for which I am greatfull and opened a tin of worms chicken out campaign was born have a look here




The farmer in the the clip has no welfare standards at all and should loose his certification.
after we saw the chicken out programs we decided to start to buy freedom foods chicken, but that has now stopped after seeing the clip...

Weeds Weeds and more Weeds..... pt 2

As the plot had not been used for some years the council as part of the agreement of tenancy had one of there chaps come in and till the soil, which looked like a blade of some sort had been through the soil at a depth of about 5" and cut whatever was there, this was now about the middle of April 08 and I was anxious to get going!
I basically divided the plot up into 4 separate plots, fortunately my inlaws just replaced there living room carpet so I was able to cover up one plot there was fortunately several sheets of corrugated tin around the plot which I used to cover half another plot, this now left me with 2 1/2 plot to sort.
I already had potatoes,toms,cauli,cabbage,brussels,onion sets all ready at home that I had grown from seed waiting to go in the soil.
So on a fine morning I started to clear the ground patch by patch, and planting and sowing as I went along, progress was painfully slow and tedious bucket after bucket of weeds, this went on for about six weeks, and everything that I wanted to plant/sow was done.
Council problems....
More to follow.....

Where to start???? Part 1

Well this is my first ever blog, During the course of the blog over the coming months/year's I intend to explore the successes and no doubt failures of a newbie allotmenteer, chicken keeper, and the virtues of being frugal after all we all like to save a few bob!, along with a touch of wine and beer making, and environmental thoughts and issues.

So here goes a bit of background info for you.

My allotment is based in Thetford Norfolk, and as far as I'm aware Thetford town council has under its jurisdiction two allotment sites one based on the bury road and one where I have my allotment on the mundford road plot no 42.
I got my lottie about April 2008 where it was completely overgrown and packed full of solidago, which is a pretty flower and is used extensively in the florestry sector, but it isn't so pretty when its standing about 5ft high, and I have got to get rid of it, as it was last years growth it was just like stiff sticks, on my first visit my daughter came along to lend a hand (bless) after trampsing about for an hour moving all sorts of rubbish I had the idea of getting one of the sheets of corrugated tin and literally dragging it back and forth the lenght of the lottie, which after about 1/2 hr we could at long last see the area that we had, wow it looked massive and I was overcome with fear at the thought of digging that lot by hand.

More to follow........