I have finally made it back to the allotment. There has finally been a break in the not-letting-me-get-to-the-allotment weather. After weeks of frozen soil and snow followed by a lot of rain, today is just grey. It is cold but not cold enough for the soil to be impenetrable to my fork.

 It has been about a month since I had last been there so I expected the worst. I expected all my crops to be dead, yet I also thought t...