Peering sleepily out of the bedroom window at 05.15, I was immediately aware that the foggy, damp weather had left us and I could almost see our allotment site several miles away. This was THE day to get the work I'd been trying to do since Monday as rain not forecast til evening. I quickly dressed in my oldest clothes, quietly so as not to wake my understanding wife (but I still did) and had explaining to do as what the heck I was playing at. Once excuses accepted, got on the deserted road and arrived at the allotment site at 05.35, still too dark to undo the shed combination lock because I just could not read the numbers. After a cup of tea from the trusty flask, daylight broke enough to get going on the task of preservative painting of two shiplap wooden sheds, one very large and one not quite so large. I had undertaken the job myself as the preservative was VERY expensive (used this type so as to safeguard shed guarantees) and if I spilt it or used too much, couldn't blame anyone else.
Athough the birds in the adjacent woods started singing periodically in unison, which can mean imminent rain, it stayed dry and with a slight breeze was ideal drying conditions.
Being early, it meant I didn't have to analyse why someone's parsnips had small holes in or go back to the car park to replace somebody's lost gate key and to be honest is the best time of the day in my opinion. I really got on with the job and was virtually completed by 11.00. The sheds look great and the rain forecast for the weekend is not going to give them any further darkening from bad weather like the plant sales and big toilet building at the entrance which are almost black.
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