Patchy Growth

In which we grow veg on our allotment to the best of our wit, eat out a bit and generally write about food related affairs. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Restaurant Review: La Barra de Traddiction, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

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We're just back from Gran Canaria, having spent a very pleasant week away. Travelling avec child (Zosia is 9 months and counting) can...
Saturday, 9 December 2017

Requiem for an allotment

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Just when you thought that the news couldn't get any more grim, what with the horror of Brexit and Trump updates being farted out int...
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Sunday, 11 June 2017

Managing fine without us

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It can come as a bit of a surprise, sometimes, to find out that life goes on without you. Since the arrival of our daughter a couple of m...
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Sunday, 2 April 2017

Restaurant Review: Harissa Kitchen, Sandyford, Newcastle upon Tyne

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A few words of praise here then for a place we've frequented a bunch of times since it opened last year, and always enjoyed. And, as ...
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Sunday, 12 March 2017

How to get things to grow #1: How we sow

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The allotment chat on this blog functions pretty much as a diary of what we've grown, rather than how we've grown it. However, we...
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Just me and the pigeons

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After having  wondered out loud  last week whether impending parenthood might make keeping the allotment going a bit of mission, this wee...
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Saturday, 25 February 2017

Tabula Rasa

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I took a quick stroll up to the allotment today, mostly just to check it was still there, what with it having been a good few weeks since...
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Friday, 27 January 2017

Restaurant Review: Rogano, Glasgow

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What is a restaurant for , anyway? I mean, obviously it's somewhere that you expect to leave less hungry than you arrived, but other ...
Saturday, 21 January 2017

Restaurant review: The Ubiquitous Chip, Ashton Lane, Glasgow

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Glasgow might not be the most obvious destination for an anniversary getaway (nine years!), but being the trend-bucking radicals that we ...
Saturday, 7 January 2017

Restaurant Review: Baba Yaga, Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne

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I have a half-arsed theory about why, despite there being getting on for a million Poles living in these isles (Polish is now, having ove...
Saturday, 31 December 2016

Lovely things to do #7: Take a wintery wander along Whitburn Cliffs

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The intermission between Christmas and the New Year has been characterised by some first-rate climatic conditions; it's been as mild ...
Thursday, 29 December 2016

Festive allotment check-up

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Don't get me wrong, Christmas is brilliant, obviously. Going home and drinking tonnes of booze and forcing a week's worth of calo...
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Sunday, 18 December 2016

Lovely things to do #6: Go to Jesmond Food Market

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Today's #lovelythingtodo comes with a side order of mea culpa and is recommended to be enjoyed while wearing thermal undies, multiple...
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Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Lovely things to do #5: Go to Newcastle Allotment Show

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An empty fairground, just before the show opened. Today's lovely thing to do, is an oldie but a goodie. It's nearly three months...
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Wednesday, 7 December 2016

Restaurant Review: Sunday lunch at St Mary's Inn, Morpeth

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The first thing you'll want to know about St Mary's is that it's not, despite what the website says, in Morpeth, or not quite...
Monday, 5 December 2016

Restaurant Review: Chick 'n' Sours, Seven Dials, London

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London! We were up to our necks in it the other weekend, what with a rather brilliant wedding taking place in Islington between two very ...
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Sunday, 27 November 2016

I got a bunch of free stuff and that's why you should all buy Scotts Miracle-Gro products!

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Like most folk that write a blog, I got into this thing off the back of a personal passion, a hobby; I wanted to have somewhere to write ...
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Monday, 21 November 2016

Restaurant Review: MOD Pizza, Metrocentre

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Choice! That's what people want, isn't it? Loads and loads of choice! By exercising our ability to peruse and discern we become t...
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Sunday, 20 November 2016

Putting things to bed

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I'm just back from the allotment, where, as a dusty blue dusk was gathering, things are now pretty much as they will be for the next ...
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Thursday, 6 October 2016

Lovely things to do #4: The Great North Run

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Today's lovely thing to do isn't just about the thing itself, lovely though that thing undoubtedly is, but what leads up to it ...
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