Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Someone threatened my allotment.

288 replies

BigBarbara · 12/04/2024 11:49

I was sat in my allotment, minding my own business, having just potted some beansprouts and some mad couple come bowling over to me demanding I move my chair and leave their allotment!

I'd only just settled in with my voddy & orange in a Stanley Cup and a copy of Take A Break.

Weather was 19° and not muddy at all.

They said its their land! I said it bloody ruddy is not, I've been here 10 years and I put this bloody ruddy shed here myself. It cost me £89 from B&Q. And I had to pay someone from the face book £40 to put it up too. In cash!

AIBU to think finders keepers, losers weepers?? If they wanted the land they shouldn't have waited 3 months to come visit, even if it had been pissing it down for months and who in their right mind would bother with checking an allotment in a pissy February right after moving and being ill too?

I'm currently going through my paper bin to find some cardboard to make some signs saying 'Big Barbara's Beansprouts, keep away'
And tonight I'm going hedgehog hunting so I can strategically place the prickly bastards on leads around the perimeter of MY land.

The cheek of some people!

(Dear MNHQ this is satire and for a laugh. For legal reasons I am not in fact Big Barb and have no intentions of tethering hedgehogs. Please don't call the RSPCA)

OP posts:
cryinglaughing · 12/04/2024 11:51

Isn't this a TAAT?
A not remotely funny one at that 🙄

PickledPurplePickle · 12/04/2024 11:51

😂

AlohaRose · 12/04/2024 11:54

Not funny.

Hoppinggreen · 12/04/2024 11:56

Good effort but nil points

DramaAlpaca · 12/04/2024 11:56

A bit too try hard, sorry.

Oblomov24 · 12/04/2024 11:57

Funny.

Infectiousdisease · 12/04/2024 11:58

It's funny! Some people are miserable feckers

Infectiousdisease · 12/04/2024 11:59

Barbara, surely you must have realized that when Audrey sold up that she'd be selling the veg patch too though?

Whattheflipflap · 12/04/2024 11:59

This is a taat

BigBarbara · 12/04/2024 11:59

OK sorry

OP posts:
BigBarbara · 12/04/2024 12:00

Wa just trying to be a bit silly and raise a smile :(

OP posts:
LadyTiredWinterBottom2 · 12/04/2024 12:00

I think it's funny

heldinadream · 12/04/2024 12:00

Hey Babzilla! Get orf of 'er land!

CatamaranViper · 12/04/2024 12:00

Just not funny...

allthegoodusernameshavegone · 12/04/2024 12:01

I’m laughing op, thanks for great post

BionicBadger · 12/04/2024 12:01

😂

Livinthedream1 · 12/04/2024 12:02

Big Barb gerrroooof their land!!!!

Infectiousdisease · 12/04/2024 12:02

BigBarbara · 12/04/2024 12:00

Wa just trying to be a bit silly and raise a smile :(

You did! Carry on, ignore the miseries

Cornishpasty342 · 12/04/2024 12:02

😂😂😂

cerisepanther73 · 12/04/2024 12:02

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

Molly0 · 12/04/2024 12:03

Some of us are amused

no offence meant to OP of other thread

Spirallingdownwards · 12/04/2024 12:03

Dear @BigBarbara

I suggest you pack up your chair, dismantle your shed or get a skip for it if a B and Q one, harvest your veg and repot your herbs and skidaddle. Otherwise you will find yourself not only with your own big legal bill but being liable for the rightful owners' legal costs of evicting you.

I would contact your mad old mate and ask they let you use their new garden 50 miles away and provide you with transport to get there and back. They seem daft enough that they will actually do it.

BigBarbara · 12/04/2024 12:03

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

Well there is a disclaimer at the bottom of my post saying exactly that...

OP posts:
Spirallingdownwards · 12/04/2024 12:04

Livinthedream1 · 12/04/2024 12:02

Big Barb gerrroooof their land!!!!

I hope you said that in a get out my pub accent.

BionicBadger · 12/04/2024 12:05

@cerisepanther73 I think you need to find your sense of humour which is mysteriously absent 🤔. Am I right? (spoiler - yes I am).