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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)

OP posts:
Robbiesraft · 12/04/2024 15:36

Ticktapticktap · 12/04/2024 15:26

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

She probably only posts in 'Gardening' though?

Anyway, she should have twigged the good times were over when Audrey sent her that new address card.

WeShallHaveFogByTeatime · 12/04/2024 15:33

Well I laughed! 😆
I did feel a bit sorry for "Babs" yesterday as someone who grows their own veg and knows what bloody hard work it is.
However, as I'm president of the Hedgehog hunt sabators "Babs" can fuck off.

Womanofcustard · 12/04/2024 15:30

well it made me laugh

Aprilpudding24 · 12/04/2024 15:30

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 12/04/2024 15:18

Imagine being so self-important that you see people having a silly bit of harmless fun that doesn't interest you and, instead of just ignoring them, actually trying to 'tell teacher' on them to make them stop being happy.

Honestly, I can't understand the mindset of these killjoys!

Zonder · 12/04/2024 15:27

Well it made me laugh!

Ticktapticktap · 12/04/2024 15:26

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

Oldermum84 · 12/04/2024 15:25

Brilliant 🤣

Sling ya hook Babs!!!!

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 12/04/2024 15:22

Why would you be potting beansprouts? Surely you'd be planting them in ground?

The devil is in the detail @BigBarbara 😜

MonsieurSpade · 12/04/2024 15:20

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 12/04/2024 15:16

I know you've long established your lovely allotment up there in Yorkshire, but if you now do have to move, why not decamp to somewhere a little further south - where the growing conditions might be more favourable?

Maybe Market Harbara?

😂 Like it.

AngelsWithSilverWings · 12/04/2024 15:19

Well I thought it was funny even though I do feel a teeny-tiny bit sorry for Barb.

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 12/04/2024 15:18

Imagine being so self-important that you see people having a silly bit of harmless fun that doesn't interest you and, instead of just ignoring them, actually trying to 'tell teacher' on them to make them stop being happy.

MaybeRevisitYourWipingT3chnique · 12/04/2024 15:16

I know you've long established your lovely allotment up there in Yorkshire, but if you now do have to move, why not decamp to somewhere a little further south - where the growing conditions might be more favourable?

Maybe Market Harbara?

TyneTeas · 12/04/2024 15:11

I enjoyed it OP

Villagetoraiseachild · 12/04/2024 15:10

Thank you Big Barbara, you made my day!
Plus am loving the passive aggressive horticultural suggestions.

harriethoyle · 12/04/2024 15:10

I laughed @BigBarbara

Infectiousdisease · 12/04/2024 15:10

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Houseplantmad · 12/04/2024 15:09

😂 😂

Villagetoraiseachild · 12/04/2024 15:08

Haters gonna hate.
Taters gonna tate

potato GIF
WhatFlavourIsIt · 12/04/2024 15:08

LadyWiddiothethird · 12/04/2024 15:00

Reported as its a TAAT.

Why? Are you really that miserable that you don't like to see others have a laugh about something silly?

eggsandbaconeveryday · 12/04/2024 15:05

Oh Babs ! you tell them love !

Mind you they do have a point .... you are squatting on their land so you might want to take your beans and hop it !

Yes, I realise that you have been squatting for a long time but now its time to either pay rent or move on my dear

Isometimeswonder · 12/04/2024 15:04

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)

Can't believe the miseries on here! I laughed @BigBarbara

valensiwalensi · 12/04/2024 15:03

This made me laugh, I knew it would be from Big Barb before I even saw the thread!

Goawayquickly · 12/04/2024 15:03

God there's some po faced misery drippers on here.

PineappleTime · 12/04/2024 15:01

LadyWiddiothethird · 12/04/2024 15:00

Reported as its a TAAT.

Yawn

WhatFlavourIsIt · 12/04/2024 15:00

I enjoyed this far more than the --made up - original

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