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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:
ManchesterBeatrice · 12/04/2024 19:02

Love this

ManchesterBeatrice · 12/04/2024 19:02

😂

LardoBurrows · 12/04/2024 19:00

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 12/04/2024 18:58

I'm going to have to leave this thread now.

I'm not a fan of cats, not trying to conceive, not a step-parent, not Irish, not a royal fan, not planning early for Christmas and not looking to relocate to Basingstoke - so I'm going to be very busy going on all those threads, telling everybody there that they need to stop talking about them, because they don't interest me.

The big problem I find with MN is that, with it being such a new site, there are hardly any threads at all on here to choose from to read...

Bloody brilliant 🤣🤣🤣

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 12/04/2024 18:58

I'm going to have to leave this thread now.

I'm not a fan of cats, not trying to conceive, not a step-parent, not Irish, not a royal fan, not planning early for Christmas and not looking to relocate to Basingstoke - so I'm going to be very busy going on all those threads, telling everybody there that they need to stop talking about them, because they don't interest me.

The big problem I find with MN is that, with it being such a new site, there are hardly any threads at all on here to choose from to read...

LardoBurrows · 12/04/2024 18:58

StaunchMomma · 12/04/2024 18:51

Babs man - get your own bloody allotment!

That's terrible advice 'cos then Babs will have to, you know, pay for her allotment. It's much better to hang on to her existing one, cos it's free.

fungipie · 12/04/2024 18:53

BigBarbara · 12/04/2024 12:00

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

It worked- brilliant :)

StaunchMomma · 12/04/2024 18:51

Babs man - get your own bloody allotment!

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 12/04/2024 18:45

muddyford · 12/04/2024 17:59

What's a TAAT?

Lilo Lil from Bread.

(I see others have already given an 'alternative' response!)

BOOTS52PollyPrissyPants · 12/04/2024 18:33

Good one enjoyed reading this, nice to see some humour still exists. Don't forget to run around your bonfire naked at midnight howling to the moon. !!

VinoVerity · 12/04/2024 18:25

That’s terrible! Call 101

Silvers11 · 12/04/2024 18:22

LardoBurrows · 12/04/2024 16:45

@BigBarbara A word to the wise, and don't tell them I told you, but the husband of the new owners is threatening to come down to your the allotment and start naked gardening. I suggest you get in first, that should scare the buggers orf. Imagine thinking they can just stroll in, cool as you like, and start using their own land, I mean, where will it end?

😂😂😂

TwirlyWhirlie · 12/04/2024 18:22

Babs, I suggest getting a trampoline and bouncing on it naked. That’ll surprise ‘em 😜

Icantbedoingwithit · 12/04/2024 18:20

There are a fair few poker holed, po faced poxes on this thread.

Gave me a good laugh! Ignore OP! Don’t mind the Maudlin Maureens!

muddyford · 12/04/2024 18:19

Hadjab · 12/04/2024 18:06

Its a Thread About A Thread

Thank you!

Combattingthemoaners · 12/04/2024 18:17

🤣

curlupandvanishforever · 12/04/2024 18:17

Love it 😂

AGlinnerOfHope · 12/04/2024 18:15

You are going to have to go, unfortunately, however you could dig some elephant pits, disguised with a thin layer of radish seeds, which will grow fast enough to fool ‘em.

They won’t look so smug in the bottom of a 6ft ditch, now, will they!

Andthereyougo · 12/04/2024 18:12

Start digging a moat now. Strategically hide those loud shot bird scarers.
You also need rolls of barbed wire, watch an old episode of Dad’s Army for inspiration. Stand strong @BigBarbara though you might need to sleep in the shed in case they try a nighttime assault.

Hadjab · 12/04/2024 18:06

muddyford · 12/04/2024 17:59

What's a TAAT?

Its a Thread About A Thread

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 12/04/2024 18:05

Sunquest · 12/04/2024 17:05

The original thread was bad enough. Now we have this one to endure as wellHmm

Are you strapped to chair with matchsticks in you eyes Clockwork Orange style?

Mummyoflittledragon · 12/04/2024 18:05

I’m just letting you know Babs that the owners cheeky gits, who want to take their your allotment back away from you, snuck onto the plot and took soil samples whilst you weren’t there…

My advice is to muster your inner Miss Trunchball and put them in The Chokie.

FiveLamps · 12/04/2024 18:04

Ticktapticktap · 12/04/2024 15:26

There's a good chance 'Barbara' is on MN too...this is a mean and not funny post

Oh get a grip! And a life.

Bringonthesunforthewashing · 12/04/2024 18:04

It is funny!!

God there are some miserable people about 😣

muddyford · 12/04/2024 17:59

What's a TAAT?

Objectionhearsayspeculation · 12/04/2024 17:58

YABVU for trying to tether hedgehogs, everyone knows they are better deployed as stealth weapons, much like standing on Lego therefore the leads will make them too easy to spot.