I’ve always meant to look up “allotment” so I finally got around to it and it’s almost the same as a community garden except 1) the plots are 250sqm (half plots are sometimes available in modern times) 2) they’re required by law so you generally have inherited rights to an allotment 3) because of the large size and the long-term rights people do build more “engineered” things like sheds and cold frames.

Also, I thought it was jerry-rigged: MW on jerry-built vs jury-rigged.

I learned more than I do from the usual 10,000 word substack. Why did substack get so wordy compared to blogs of old.