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Someone threatened my allotment.

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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)

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YourSnugHazelTraybake · 12/04/2024 14:00

Made me smile 😂

Worried86 · 12/04/2024 13:57

Oh no, PP’s have called the Fun Police on you Babs!

So glad I have people on MN to categorically state what’s funny and what isn’t, I’d be lost otherwise…

Hobnobswantshernameback · 12/04/2024 13:55

Satire is meant to be funny

ShadesofPoachedSmoke · 12/04/2024 13:52

So many sense of humour failures here!

Sit tight Barbs, the hedgehogs will defend you! Grin

Evvyjb · 12/04/2024 13:51

Barb, I suggest you plant some lovely convolvulus before they turf you off your land. Swines!

WearyAuldWumman · 12/04/2024 13:48

Dear BigBarb

Do you really model yourself on CPB or is your look a last-ditch attempt to hang onto your Farrah Fawcett, albeit at a shorter length?

How do you style it?

Asking for a friend.

WearyAuldWumman · 12/04/2024 13:46

BigBarbara · 12/04/2024 12:00

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

It gave me a smile.

Sparklfairy · 12/04/2024 13:43

I do love when posters pipe up on threads like this just to smugly say 'It's not funny'.

I think you'll find you mean, 'I don't find it funny' as it's only your opinion, and all you've done is out yourself as arrogant enough to consider yourself the arbiter of humour, and stupid enough to believe anyone here cares what you do or don't find funny.

LakieLady · 12/04/2024 13:39

I thought it was funny, too.

Infectiousdisease · 12/04/2024 13:36

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Oh don't be so bloody ridiculous

Infectiousdisease · 12/04/2024 13:36

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.

Agree Barbara, your time is up

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 12/04/2024 12:10

@BigBarbara a word! big barbara knew the plot had been sold before she planted any vegetables! there has been so much rain that the farmers are having difficulty sowing their fields! please do not even consider renting or selling any of the plot to the offender. remember, this is also an excellent selling point if and when you do eventually sell your house. it is yours. get her off completely. evicted her if necessary. she is trespassing.

JaneJeffer · 12/04/2024 12:08

I guess I should have read the other thread first then

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).

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.

BigBarbara · 12/04/2024 12:03

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

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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.

Molly0 · 12/04/2024 12:03

Some of us are amused

no offence meant to OP of other thread

cerisepanther73 · 12/04/2024 12:02

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Cornishpasty342 · 12/04/2024 12:02

😂😂😂

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

Livinthedream1 · 12/04/2024 12:02

Big Barb gerrroooof their land!!!!

BionicBadger · 12/04/2024 12:01

😂

allthegoodusernameshavegone · 12/04/2024 12:01

I’m laughing op, thanks for great post

CatamaranViper · 12/04/2024 12:00

Just not funny...