Product Description

Profiling the unique obsessions and preoccupations of over 40 British allotmenteers, young and old, this book dispels the myth that there's no more to allotments than home-grown vegetables, compost, weeding and an over-abundance of tomato seedlings. Featuring everything from oversized marrows and dye plants to pampered rabbits and bees to allotments as performance art, along with the amazing and usually eccentric people behind them, this book is a humourous celebration of the diversity, industry and comedy that pervades the modern allotment community. Each story is accompanied by revealing photographs of the allotmenteer and his or her "patch".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #247029 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 92 pages

About the Author
Chris Opperman started his career as a junior reporter with the Herts Advertiser, St Albans, and has worked in newspapers, commercial radio, as a freelance writer, a pig farmer, and a warden on local marine nature reserve and yacht chandlery - combining his two favourite hobbies (sailing and conservation work) with a few pennies. He now works for Let's Talk! the friendly voice of Suffolk - a magazine aimed at the over 50s, based on nostalgia and stuff the grey army can relate to. He is married to Sue, has three children, and lives in Essex.

Customer Reviews

A little bit lightweight, but good
A good, lightweight book ideal for picking-up and putting down, or for the shelf in the littlest room in the house. Expect to finish the entire thing in an hour or two.

disappointing
I wouldn't class this as a book, more like a photographers profile. I thought it would be an interesting read but was disappointed. There is one allotment per page, probably no more than 300 words on each plot with a full page photograph. No indepth writing, more like a CV of each allotment owner. The photographs are fantastic but if you have an interest in allotments and want a more indepth view don't buy this book.

Allotment Folk reviewed
I would not have thought it possible to write a book on "allotmenteers" that would would appeal to anyone who does not have an allotment, but Chris Opperman has bought the subject to life with his witty and observant writing on these folk. This is a book to be dipped into a little at a time.
Highly recommended as an insight into the quirks of human nature.