Re: Remember the Housing "Bubble"?
- From: Thomas Womack <twomack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 11 Apr 2007 00:19:03 +0100 (BST)
In article <m2hcrnu99p.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark Atwood <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andy Leighton <andyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
However we did eat plenty of good English food, your basic roasts, stews
and soups, bubble-and-squeak, toad-in-the-whole and traditional English
puddings. We had plenty of veg from the garden and allotment
"allotment"?
An allotment is a generally council-owned plot of land, somewhere
conveniently reachable from a city, divided into chunks of about 300
square metres which people rent (at, say, 20p per square metre per
year) to grow things on for their own use; you're not supposed to grow
flowers there and sell them. Initially these were a useful food
source, nowadays they're a much cheaper way of getting some land that
you can grow things on than buying or renting a house with an
appropriately-sized garden.
To some extent they were a reaction to the reduction in availability
of common land due to the enclosure acts of the nineteenth century.
Tom
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