Hello, new friend…

A polytunnel! “If it takes two or three men, two or three days to erect one, how long does it take one man to do the same”. Two weeks plus a bit is the answer. Not shtricklee true but those mathematical questions and the dread thereof still wakes me up at night, and the fearsome Mr. Baggs setting the questions and marking the answers (in my case very few) still evokes a terrible dread.

Also not strictly true as there were the two of us, and we had to convert the old greenhouse layout to the opposite orientation. There is a lot to erecting a polytunnel, least of all handling the poly alongside a zephyr from the west. I’m reminded of the definition of a Lancaster bomber – “50,000 rivets flying in close formation “ as an analogy, there are a lot of moving parts to align.

However, ‘tis now done, and we can start sowing!

Harry

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