grumpyf1

If you happened to have read my Big Blogger ramblings, you’ll possibly remember I have an allotment. I have bad news – there’s been an invasion. After what can best be described as “minimal” help from the council, we still have a wall bordering woodland which is missing some essential elements. One of them is stones. The other 1000 or so are also stones. This has meant that Bambi and his chums are free to wander into the allotment, where they find what must be akin to the M&S fruit and veg section of the deer world. Happily ignoring the rule book on what they supposedly eat, they’ve scoffed just about anything that grows, leaving me and my fellow allotmenteers counting the costs. And it’s been quite deer. (Sorry.) This has led to an arms race of netting and poles, as everyone tries to divert the hungry masses away from their plot. We got the first strike in, and now half the plots are surrounded, leaving those working their patch looking like they’ve been caged. Passing bi...