In 2008 I got my first allotment and I loved it, I really did. Over the past 5 years I have spent hours and hours there, sometimes with the children but most often by myself. It's a quiet and peaceful place, plants don't tend to ramble on and on about nothing. They are happy if you look after them, suffer a little if you don't but generally they just grew. Josie was four and Charlie just a year old when we got the plot and there has been a lot of muddy puddles, worms and tasting of homegrown goodies. It has a place where I have truly been happy, thought through the tough and sad times and celebrated the beautiful and diverse natural world. But now we have moved and I have a vegetable plot in the garden, I no longer need both my allotments. My second plot is bigger, backs onto the river and has alot more character so there wasn't really any question about which one I was going to give up. It's never easy letting go of something you love but times and l...