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    FROM STARTERS TO MAINS

    Jan 28, 2020 4 minutes

    We have enjoyed months of mayhem, madness and making new acquaintances with The starter plotters and now all but one of them have moved off on to the main site at Ashbourne Road and District Allotments in Derby, leaving the little starter plots, that were once bursting with everything allotment, now looking basic, bare and barren.

    Sadly, almost all our ‘Class of 19’ has dispersed. The constant buzz that had once been so prevalent at that part of the site has softened; the volume has radically reduced, leaving an air of calm again.

    HOW THE STARTER PLOTS BEGAN

    Elaine and Julia (aka Radio Derby’s The Potty

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