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Default OT - sort of - Avoiding false grocery charges

On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 16:52:29 -0400, Nancy Young
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>On 8/14/2016 4:44 PM, S Viemeister wrote:
>> On 8/14/2016 3:26 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>> On 8/14/2016 2:34 PM, wrote:
>>>
>>>> That particular high school has gone the way of the DoDo and is now a
>>>> bevy of allotments
>>>
>>> I'm curious what you mean by allotments.
>>>

>> <http://www.nsalg.org.uk/allotment-info/brief-history-of-allotments/>
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>> During WWII, my grandfather raised lots of vegetables on an allotment,
>> to supplement the family rations.

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>That's what I pictured when I saw allotments, but since
>there was a high school there, I thought maybe it was turned into
>apartments or something.


Nope, they raised the high school it would have been too difficult to
make it into condos or apartments.
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>That's interesting about your grandfather. I didn't think of
>allotments as being a family support project.
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>nancy
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