Assessments and allotments

A health visitor finally arrived last week to see little man. It seems no-one at the doc's had told them we'd moved to the area. Anyway, it turned out to be a health visitor at the more common sense end of the spectrum. As she filled in forms, little man was playing and showing us things and saying the odd intelligible word and grabbing her pen off her. So the health visitor announced that she certainly had no concerns about his development and we talked about poultry keeping and allotments instead.

I wrote to the council last week too, expressing my concern about the length of the allotment waiting list. I discovered that my highest placing on the list for any of the four sites in the town is 80-something. For the other three it's over 100. They say the wait is now three to four years. I suspect it's going to be considerably longer. It seems a bit unfair that some people got their hands on more than one allotment back when there was no waiting list and they can't be turfed off now because they have a tenancy agreement. There's an empty field round the corner; I might have to get on with some guerilla gardening.