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| Allotted Time: Two Blokes, One Shed, No Idea | 
 enlarge | Author: Robin Shelton
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 46378
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0330441256
EAN: 9780330441254
ASIN: 0330441256
Publication Date: March 2, 2007
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 Not a manual - but really really funny March 1, 2008
If you want a 'how to' guide for your veg this isnt it - but if you want to laugh out loud every couple of pages (and perhaps indirectly learn a fair amount about allotment gardening) then this is the book for you. Funny first, heart warming and life affirming next and then informative, this is a great read and a book i will return to again and again.
Occupational therapy in it's purest form July 5, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Robin Shelton is living confirmation of the therapeutic benefits of activity.
This book is written in a very reader-friendly form and is more enjoyable than any number of academic research papers that evidence what Robin Shelton proved for himself.
If there weren't such a shortage of allotments in this country there would be fewer people suffering from depression!
ALLOTTED TIME A TRULY GREAT READ April 1, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
You must read this book if you have or are thinking about getting a plot of your own. As an inexperienced fairly new plot holder myself it was great to read an honest account of another new plot holders experiences. We all have to start somewhere! You are guaranteed a good laugh reading this book and i doubt you will be able to put it down once you start reading it. Totally enjoyable and funny read i hope Robin Shelton writes a follow up to this one.
 Spend time on the allotment rather than read this March 30, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This was bought for me after I got an allotment late last year.
The book is easy to read and quite humorous in parts as the author describes the local characters. But the beauty of an allotment is the doing not in the reading of other peoples digging.
This book is the equivalent of the natter across the hedge or fence. But most of the time I just wanted to put the book down and get on with my allotment digging and planting.
I can relate to the improved connectivity with the seasons and the passion, and the pride, which seems to creep up on you as an allotment holder.
Not a bad book, it is just difficult to make digging sound interesting in a book. Maybe that is its failure.
If you are thinking about an allotment, then maybe worthy of a read. I just came away very neutral; good for sleepless nights perhaps!!
 Not a gardening manual... January 19, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
But an useful insight into how gardening can help as a therapy for problems.
The book is a humourous, insightful and entertaining review of a year where two blokes, one a manic depressive, take on an allotment with no experience and about as much of a budget. It is a success story. At bits I laughed out loud. It even got me out in the garden, digging in middle of December!
What I didn't like about the book is it's anti-Christian bias, although its not featured a lot, it really doesn't have any place in a book like this. (Hence 3*'s and not 4)
I got bored before the end and took off on another project.
However, it did make think, 'I can do this' - both with regard to the garden and the writing.
Worth a read.
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