While out of work I've been doing masses of Taoist Arts and while helping my teacher coach T'ai Chi at an old people's class overheard one lady say she was having problems coping with her gardening, cue "Oh, your vegetables?", so I gathered she had a lottie and offered to help or take a share of it. She was OK but her neighbour on the site had been looking for someone to help him as he's 78, we've made contact, I was made welcome and shown round and I've agreed to cart in 10 loads of horse manure on my Xtracycle for starters!
During our discussion today he mentioned out of the blue what I'd already considered, namely was the effort totally at my own risk should he pass away or could I stake a claim to it; he said I would take the whole plot off him earlier than that, whereupon I patted him on the back and hoped he'd live for another 20 years yet. But the question is, it's OK for him to say that but I can just imagine being kicked off and the site divided between two people on the waiting list. While I'll certainly register for one if I get on with it OK and might accede to it during Patrick's lifetime, does anyone know how it would work out in practice (this is Dudley council)? Otherwise everyone would just pass on their plots to people they knew, wouldn't they, and nobody on the queue would get a look-in?