{"id":149332,"date":"2025-02-02T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T06:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sunday-with-felicity-montagu-allotment-shed-etiquette-is-very-important\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T06:47:53","slug":"sunday-with-felicity-montagu-allotment-shed-etiquette-is-very-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sunday-with-felicity-montagu-allotment-shed-etiquette-is-very-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday with Felicity Montagu: \u2018Allotment shed etiquette is very important\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFor the Beyond Paradise actor, happy Sundays are all about the plotWhat\u2019s an average Sunday? I share an allotment with my friend, which is wonderful. We grow turnips, parsnips and tromboncinos, which are in the squash family and a bit phallic. It\u2019s a really peaceful thing to do and it calms me.Is it hard to get an allotment? You have to go on a waiting list. One of my big regrets is that I didn\u2019t do it with my kids. Now they\u2019re grown up, they look at me as if I\u2019m a mad woman when I say I\u2019m going down to the allotment. But it\u2019s full of young couples with young children, digging.Is there allotment envy? Yes. There\u2019s always someone better than you. There\u2019s a lady who does French squashes in the most extraordinary shapes, and someone else who has a magical bottomless pit of potatoes. My friend Caroline sorts out our logistics. She\u2019s always getting gets me to build structures and hang nets to stop the birds eating all the cavolo nero.Have you got a shed? We share a shed. There\u2019s a lot of diplomacy. If a rake slips slightly on to someone else\u2019s side, I become nervous and I push it back. Shed etiquette is very important.Is it a happy place? Yes. As an actor, you have to use your brain and nerves. It\u2019s wonderful on a Sunday morning to unlock the gate to the secret garden and see the wonder of what\u2019s growing. (Why hasn\u2019t anyone written a sitcom about an allotment? I might one day.) On the way home I like to steal into different churches.Such as? On Christmas Day I went into the Russian Orthodox Church up the road. It was one of the most magical experiences of my life. I like travelling on the bus on a Sunday, because it\u2019s slow and I can watch people. I might go to a choral evensong, or I might just have my mates round and we\u2019ll get all horrendously drunk. It\u2019s not PC here at all. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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