The wholesome village Facebook page 🙄

Our MP has a surgery here tomorrow. He's one of the Scottish Tories who against the extension of free school meals in England. He is a brown nosing party line toe-er and pretty damn high on the expenses list.
There is some "organising" going on.

OMG KNAIN, we have similar here. A whole trail of craft glitter and plastic crap littering a nature trail. Lots of stuff dangerous to the wildlife in the area. I may have cleared the worst of the metallic ribbon etc away into a bin myself
When it started to get seriously tatty and even more reminiscent of litter someone had dropped, a local woman who organises litter picks diplomatically offered to clean it up. My god, she deserved a Nobel prize for the way she handled it. The main litterer passively aggressively whined a bit but there was nothing really she could hang her moaning on. Previously she’d posted long rants about people not taking care of it, how she was doing it for the cheeeeldren, no one appreciated it why did she even bother?
It’s cold and muddy now. I doubt the proposed Halloween one will happen.

@Mydogmylife
Not anymore, but I grew up in The Mearns

I joined one of these thinking it would have some stuff of local interest. I quickly left when I realised a few days later it was just a bunch of do-gooding curtain twitchers.

Oh lordy. The poppy fascists have started already.
I might have to unfollow the group until Remembrance Day is over.

we had who are these children during the summer with photos they were just kids sitting on a blooming wall .
I knew the complainer and said Iremembered full well what they were up to at 13years old and it wasn't sitting on a wall !

Breaking news just in on my local page. A mum has posted a picture of a big poop that someone has done at the top of the kids slide in the local park.
Opinion is divided between men/boys thinking it's hilarious and everyone else thinking it's disgusting.
That's pretty vile.

Crumpets???! That was for #Frumpety...!

Crumpets, I fear we’re not in the same village.... nearest Asda is about 30 miles away.
But glad to know other villages have stray peacock problems!

Trick or Treat debates (this one tends to get nasty, a good read!)
Dog Pooh
Teenagers "trashing" the village (would never have happened in our day)
Some pinching a wheelie bin on bin day and putting their address on it
Parking
someone advertising a business on the wrong day
Cars soaking pedestrians with rain water
The state of the queue for McDonalds
The state of the queue for KFC
disgusting that we can't buy fireworks - how will my kids cope

The usual humdrum stuff, its all kicking off in our village lol

We have
Students are evil because we will end up in Tier 2 or 3 cos evil students and their evil need for higher education
Leave the students alone, they're only trying to learn and it's the government's fault
Why no one knew Boris and Handcock (as he is referred to sometimes accidentally but sometimes not) were coming to our local hospital yesterday, there is a split of people who wanted to throw various dairy based missiles and sad they lost their chance and those arguing with the potential dairy missile throwers who wanted to congratulate him
Travellers. Always travellers. Now they're apparently on a mission to steal all the dogs, cats and anything else in the manner of a magpie
Thinly veiled racism about parking and those who park poorly.
The local old pool which would need millions spending on it and is not fit for purpose but the Green ward councillor (who is a twat) has caused such a frenzy over it that there will be sit ins at this rate, the council are building a lovely new pool next year but no, not good enough
Half term should be variously banned or extended until a vaccine
Local Halloween hunt instead of trick or treat so there's the ones after numbers to join in and those saying all of those with numbers are going to cause mass death due to spreading covid as people will expect sweeties.

Our Village page sounds the same as others. Dog poo, parking, litter. All fascinating it's quite handy for missing posts and parcels though.

@Saz12 do you ever go onto the local large town FB page ? If you do can you let me know if Asda is open ?

On ours today a post about a missing disabled duck - having been raised in lockdown and it is dependent on its owners...... apparently can waddle is very friendly and if it nibbles your shoes means it wants a cuddle??

I am jealous. We don't have a group. What we do have is a nostalgic piece of waffle called "NAME OF TOWN reborn" which is basically for people who used to live here in the olden days 1960s etc to reminisce about the "good old days" and post pointless things like "who remembers Denise's laundrette on the high street?"

We had a fairy tree during lockdown and pebbles it went horribly wrong and it got damaged was a shame but really was only a matter of Time.

That's hilarious Kanin

I used to see coloured stones on the stone walls around my area and took me awhile to figure it

I'm sure the owners loved the random stones

Knain I can picture the outrage ...

chocoalatesaltyballs22 Over lockdown, all the local villages including ours had covid pebble snakes. Once in a while a stone would go missing from it and there would be fb howls for it to be returned as their child was distraught not to see it there.

My local facebook page is currently retired people complaining about all the people they see out and about when they are out and about, people demanding that everyone stop being offended by their poppy and going off on one when people remind them that no one is in fact offended by their poppy and an ongoing and sadly personal argument about allotment allocation.

I have stayed a member of the facebook page for the area I moved out of a few months ago and it is almost entirely devoted now to a very bitter war about the planned lot traffic neighbourhood scheme. If I ever feel like being insulted and having my worth as a human being questioned I will go there and express a concern about the scheme, it seems that unless you are uncritically in favour of it as proposed you are evil.

KNain I love it. Might even start a fairy tree here.

LOL that's hilarious @KNain.

We had a trail of painted pebbles which some kind soul has painstakingly painted with clear nail polish so as to maintain them. I've kept well out of it, having no small kids.

This didn't happen recently, but got mentioned on our local village Facebook page tonight, in response to something about Halloween trails, and will probably kick off again now. In our house we call it Shitty McShit-tree, but to everyone else it is the local 'fairy tree'

This was a tree in a local beauty spot that someone put a little wooded fairy door onto. Then a few children left a couple (literally 2 or 3) little painted stones. This was how it stayed for a year or so.

Then over the summer, with everyone going out for their daily walk, lots of children started leaving 'gifts' for the fairies. The tree quickly became overrun; completely covered in all sorts of plastic tat. There was tons of it.

Then the kids started to leave notes and drawings for the fairies. So someone put some scrappy bits of paper and pencils in an old tobacco tin and hung it from the tree, to assist with this.

Parents didn't want their kids drawings to get wet, so they started hanging them from the tree in plastic food bags (or in one case, a dog-poo bag! - honestly, you couldn't make this up!)

Eventually, a group of people decided to go and clear up the tree. They posted on the local Facebook group to say they were going to clear it up, leaving the original little door and the painted stones. They would also leave a little note from the 'fairy' thanking the children for their gifts and saying they had taken them all back to fairly land.

Well, it kicked off. So many angry parents, furious that their child's precious Kinder egg shite was no longer going to strung up on a tree. Saying this tree was the only thing keeping children going during the pandemic. Some of the children weren't even that young, so it wouldn't have been that difficult for the parents to explain about the environmental impact of hanging plastic bags from trees!

This was months ago and there are still angry rumblings about it on there now.