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Back from an exhausting allotment session. Nice chat with our Romanian neighbour - she's given us some tomatoes, peppers and pickling cucumbers in exchange for some of our apples. Apart from them we've come home with the last of the potatoes, apples, pears and a few raspberries and strawberries. I've roughly dug the potato bed ready for some green manure sowing. There's still a lot to do there. #allotment #leicestershire

Today's hurriedly written #TatrasTrainTrip #blog post - where we move from Germany into the Netherlands and home is not too far away.

Across the border — Old People meandering around Europe by train & ferry

#interrail #blogging #CrossBorderRail

Good morning pals! Today the airship crew* will be heading to London. It's a couple of buses to get to Yarmouth for the ferry to get a train, then we'll get another train so we can have a short train ride to get to our accommodation for the night. I'm going to say it again because I love saying it : we're staying at our London club as usual. It's a bit cool and misty at the moment but it was very bright earlier. *No airships have been harmed, procured, or dismantled, but the crew are ever hopeful of gainful employment despite our total lack of experience. #IsleofWight #holiday #today #GoodMorning

I'm absolutely certain that an agreement of some sort will be essential for the new Corbyn / Sultana party with the Greens. A formal pact might be a step too far, but on a constituency by constituency basis, given local knowledge and conditions might be a lot better. (It may be necessary to include the LibDems in a few areas as well - shock! horror!) Whatever happens any agreement will upset someone in either tent, but the progressive vote mustn't split. #ukpolitics

I spent a long time thinking about the Corby / Sultana party last night. I think the test of its aims will come when we see how Entryism is managed. If a local group is 'hijacked' by (say) Flat Earthers* - how will the national party respond? They promise not to be centrally led, but if the membership approves unpalatable (to the founders) policies, maybe on Europe - or Flat Earthism* - what then? *Choose your favourite boogeyman from Capital Punishment, LGBT rights, Immigration, and so on. #yourParty #Corbyn #ukPolitics

Bumper session at our allotment today. I've planted the remaining celery, sweetcorn, courgette, melon and leek plants. We've done no where near enough weeding - it's amazing how the rain has encouraged the weeds. We came home with <drum roll please > Strawberries, gooseberries, a few blackcurrants, a small handful of Charlotte potatoes, and rhubarb. To our astonishment the peach tree, that is looking very sick, has three or more peaches maturing on it. The cherry tree is doing well - but that'll be a race with the birds to get them. And I came home with very bad backache. #allotment #fruit