How do you get to your plot?

[Elfeda]

allotment main gate is 0.1 miles away!

[Aberdeenplotter]

20 mins away on foot but that is downhill and easy. It's a bit of a slog on the way home by foot. Btw, I take the car .

[Alison]

I quite like the fact that mine is a short distance from home. Far enough that I'm devoted to the lottie not in and out the house and getting distracted (as I do when I'm in the back garden) but not too far that I can't nip up there to harvest and check on things as necessary. Don't think I'd fancy a trip on the tube after I've been up there all day though, I usually look like I've been rolling in dirt and not exactly presentable

[mrose]

Looking like a weirdo on the tube is my biggest problem tbh Alison! Especially in the summer when I stay up there until quite late and then I'm crossing central London caked in mud with all the people dressed up on a night out.

[Hans Mum]

5-10 minute stroll from home to lottie gates only take car when something heavy to bring home (or take there)

[vixylix]

I open the back door and step out in to the garden. As much as I'd love an allotment I would miss everything being right on my doorstep - I don't think I'd be half as committed. I'm sticking with finding a bigger garden instead!

[Snadger]

20 minute drive approximately 6-7 miles away. Usually drive it cos I am too knackered to walk back. Used to cycle it but its all up and down huge hills so its as bad going one way as it is tuther.
I would love a plot closer to home but beggars can't be choosers!

[Jungle Jane]

I use my back garden,it is a distraction I'm out there so much. When you're washing whites,get distracted by the garden shouting your name & then have hands caked in mud to empty the machine,that wouldn't happen for allotment people. Theres good & bad things in everything,must concentrate on the good things.

[kimble]

Looking like a weirdo on the tube is my biggest problem tbh Alison! Especially in the summer when I stay up there until quite late and then I'm crossing central London caked in mud with all the people dressed up on a night out.

Sounds best of both worlds! London and the garden. I no longer live in a metropolitan area, but in a town, and would like to live in a city again, but probably never will. I visit my parents in London and it is great, but then that is visiting, and so much buzz and energy and places to see in London, but the money just flys out of your hands - or you sit at home.

I am habituated to having all this space now - hard to say what is better, London or country - I think London, but then not on a tight budget I guess.

So zero time to get to my plot - but then when I would like to go somewhere there is not much but shopping and fishing, maybe the library or visit someone. If we really want to spend the effort we can do an hour drive to the small city near, but that is either expensive or dangerous depending on what you are up to. Not a lot of this anymore (old photograph of Elvis and lights from when we used to get around (Vegas Strip))

[Alison]

.....hard to say what is better, London or country.....

Country very time. I have to visit London occasionally and even a day is too long. I'm not that much of a city person anyway but London is one of the worst I've ever visited.

[Scarlet]

I love London! The best city to visit. I get a flutter in my tummy when I get into Paddington - I just lovethetube though love the countryside too...not too keen on the beach but I do like to fish occasionally

I grow in the garden, love to have a little walk around my patch picking my stuff just before I cook.

[Bill Door]

I have a 15 minute walk to the allotment. I have three schools to navigate and with my large garden trolley it is foolhardy to go the the allotment between 8.10 and 9.05. However, when walking in my old clothes and carrying my long handled fork (or spade) I notice that the b*****d's don't stand in my way. The children are fine and usually take no notice which suits me.

Only trouble is that it is hard pulling the trolley home as it is more uphill than down.

I also avoid 12.00 noon and 3.15 to 4.00 when the usual idiots congregate and cause more problems for their children than anyone else in the area.

Bill

[mrose]

Country very time. I have to visit London occasionally and even a day is too long. I'm not that much of a city person anyway but London is one of the worst I've ever visited.

To each their own, obviously, but as a Londoner born and raised I couldn't disagree more! Though I think it's fair to say that the visitor/tourist experience often includes some of the least interesting/most stressful places (and often happens at the worst times of year!).

I'm a total homebody though, so possibly I'd be this wedded to a small town if that was what I was familiar with.

As it is too much horizon and being more than five minutes from a 24 hour corner shop gives me the cold sweats! (Though country holidays are lovely).

[KevinM67]

A 10 min walk to the plot, but usually just a 5 min bike ride.

I enjoy that it's close enough to the house... but far enough away to escape from family, life, the world, etc.