News from Nowhere. There are days (and today is one of them) when I think it's important to think of all the things that are very English and very wonderful. Allotments are one such that comes to mind and needless to say I think of this one that is "5 poles or thereabouts" (the Anglo-Saxon measurement still used to size allotments).
 For me it is a small parcel of Albion; the island of William Morris, William Blake, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the suffragettes, the visions and visionaries rooted in this land yet able to see beyond it.