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The tide had receded far beyond the harbour wall, leaving a wide stretch of wet sand, almost 200 metres across, that glistened in the early sun. Priya crouched beside the nearest rockpool, where a shoal of tiny fish darted between the fronds of olive-green seaweed. Her brother Tomasz knelt a little further off, meticulously examining a crab shell that had washed up overnight. 'Don't touch it,' Priya warned, 'the pincers might still work even though the crab's gone.' Tomasz hesitated before picking it up anyway, turning it over to reveal the pale, brittle underside. Further along the shore, an old fishing boat lay half buried in silt, its hull worn smooth by decades of salt and weather. Priya found the boat oddly beautiful despite its state, and picked up a small fragment of blue glass, smoothed by years of tide, to add to her jar of treasures. By the time their mother called them back for lunch, the sea had already begun to return, and within the hour the whole bay would lie submerged once more beneath the water.
Fernlea Allotment Society meets on the first Saturday of every month, come rain or shine. New members are welcome although they have never grown so much as a single carrot before. Since the society was founded in 1987, it has grown from four plots to nearly sixty. Each plot-holder pays a small annual fee of £15, which covers water, tools and the shared greenhouse. Anyone who wants advice about compost, pests or planting times can simply ask at the noticeboard, where a rota of experienced growers offers free ten-minute surgeries every week. Last year's harvest festival was cancelled because the storms flooded half the site in September, but organisers hope this year's event will go ahead if the weather stays calm. Plot numbers 12 and 13, which were worst affected by the flooding, have since been raised on new beds so that they drain more easily in future.