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Profiling the unique obsessions and preoccupations of over 40 British allotmenteers, young and old, this book dispels the myth that there's no more to allotments than home-grown vegetables, compost, weeding and an over-abundance of tomato seedlings. Featuring everything from oversized marrows and dye plants to pampered rabbits and bees to allotments as performance art, along with the amazing and usually eccentric people behind them, this book is a humourous celebration of the diversity, industry and comedy that pervades the modern allotment community. Each story is accompanied by revealing photographs of the allotmenteer and his or her "patch".
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Chris Opperman started his career as a junior reporter with the Herts Advertiser, St Albans, and has worked in newspapers, commercial radio, as a freelance writer, a pig farmer, and a warden on local marine nature reserve and yacht chandlery - combining his two favourite hobbies (sailing and conservation work) with a few pennies. He now works for Let's Talk! the friendly voice of Suffolk - a magazine aimed at the over 50s, based on nostalgia and stuff the grey army can relate to. He is married to Sue, has three children, and lives in Essex.
Profiling the unique obsessions and preoccupations of over 40 British allotmenteers, young and old, this book dispels the myth that there's no more to allotments than home-grown vegetables, compost, weeding and an over-abundance of tomato seedlings. Featuring everything from oversized marrows and dye plants to pampered rabbits and bees to allotments as performance art, along with the amazing and usually eccentric people behind them, this book is a humourous celebration of the diversity, industry and comedy that pervades the modern allotment community. Each story is accompanied by revealing photographs of the allotmenteer and his or her "patch".
About the Author
Chris Opperman started his career as a junior reporter with the Herts Advertiser, St Albans, and has worked in newspapers, commercial radio, as a freelance writer, a pig farmer, and a warden on local marine nature reserve and yacht chandlery - combining his two favourite hobbies (sailing and conservation work) with a few pennies. He now works for Let's Talk! the friendly voice of Suffolk - a magazine aimed at the over 50s, based on nostalgia and stuff the grey army can relate to. He is married to Sue, has three children, and lives in Essex.
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