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Well it’s bad – but it’s not disastrous.
While three weeks of torrential rain has thrashed parts of the country to within an inch of its life, all we’ve lost is a few plants – including about half the mid-season potato crop (the glass is always half full).
In truth, we’re probably among the luckiest allotment holders in the north...

Down the allotment is off on holiday today – for a week of sun and cultural explorations in Berlin where, a quick Wikipedia search reveals, this impressive photo was taken:

The image (right) shows Berliners cultivating vegetables by the ruins of Germany’s former parliament building the Reichstag, in June 1946.