Village Facebook Page

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There's been a change of main topic from dog poo, to the repatriating of Christmas cards sent to the wrong address, sometimes many years after the addressee has moved house. It's like a walk down memory lane!

Is anyone free to do a tip run, making space for christmas

Also had a new play park and its an outrage that its open before the new bins have been delivered.

A new low on ours tonight. Someone’s nicked a load of newly planted trees from the park.

Dinnerfor1 I know, it's sad. I never actually met her but DP had a pint with her in Saddlers once!

Just had a quick look at mine. Missing cats, carol services and someone asking directions to a certain street as it apparently doesn't work on google maps (?).
But . . . someone has taken it upon themselves to flick their lights to oncoming traffic, as people have been speeding apparently and her flicking her headlights is making people slow down (people think there is a cop nearby). Oh the scandal! some people have congratulated her thanking her for stopping people speeding . . . others have told her to mind her own business.
Also - there was an accident posted by the official transport agency. A lot of people condemned the driver for not driving carefully, speeding etc then someone jumped on and said they were driving behind the car when it had the accident and they were driving safely, it was a wheel that came off their car and they pulled over to side of road safely.

The main topic just now is the new bins the council have just delivered. Despite them also sending out a calendar with what bins are picked up each week & clear instructions of what goes in them the questions persist.

The page Admin have actually banned posts about the Hermes deivery failures

Which farmer owns the escaped sheep currently rampaging through gardens?!

Lost dogs

Dog poo

@RhubarbAndCustards you must be in my village!! does it start with E!? Is the scrap man's name Ady?

This can't be coincidence haha

Ok rhubarb just Read the cat stealing one, we are definitely I the same village page haha

Ours (small market town) is dominated by people moaning about the town council, and of people who take photos of the beautiful place we live and post them for people to fawn over which I don't get - we live here, we see it.

Admins are extremely biased and only allow posts from people of their choice or on things they consider worthy. So much so that there are now several alternative facebook groups.

I try to avoid it generally as I find it small minded and petty.

I live in a small town in rural New Zealand. This post on our community FB page made me cry with laughter.

@RIPWalter I think we're in the same place, begins in H? The sheep will no one think about the gardens

Lots of information about what the homeless can do at Christmas, requests for sleeping bags for the homeless etc. Request for nurses to give health advice to the homeless at a particular event.
Local MP 's letter pretending he has made progress on a particular issue when clearly he hasn't, probably shared by a local Tory.
And the usual Christmas cards - does anyone know Mr and Mrs Brown, I 've got three cards for them.

Not in a village, no fb group, but we have a parish newsletter. Last month there were all sorts of congratulations for 90th birthdays, 60 year wedding anniversaries, the naming of the recently deceased and in memoriams of faithful flock sadly departed.

Then there's the son's of the parish who have been ordained; cue church photo with them wearing priestly robes standing with beatifically smiling bishops. Bio and testimony to the parents who raised the fine person in the faith and prepared them for the priesthood.

To the rest of us in danger of idle hands and potential servants of Satan there are exhortations to spend less time with technology and its fascination with games of war, violence and s.e.x. and pick up our rosary beads.

Give me stories about lost glasses, missing cats, dodgy vans and dog poo any day.

We had a series of posts about dog poo outside the school left by a very large dog. Now on the lookout for any large dogs with irresponsible owners.

Haha @Mynameisntmaud That makes three of us from here! Small world

Really?! Haha it really is. I wonder if we all know each other or.

That page is a source of many evenings entertainment for me and dh

Dog poo. And threats to post the poo back through the dog owner’s letterbox next time.

Complaints about the havoc created by the introduction and installation of mains sewerage in the village. Which nobody wants or can afford.

Basically, all a bit shitty.

Last week we had no water in most of the town. I think every single resident felt the need to post "water off on xx road. Anyone else?????"

Then we all had to post on everyone's comment, then again when it came back on. Then it was a bit cloudy so everyone posted a picture. Then we all blamed the new houses for taking all our water. Then we all moaned because United utilities phoned us too many times to update us.

It was the Facebook highlight of the year

Requests for the number of a plumber, someone at X farm is trying to get hold of the local Hermes man as parcel was 'handed to resident' yesterday but she was out all day so it can't have been.
There are a lot of discussions about which broadband service to use (they're all shite, we live in the sticks) and a reminder that the local baking lady needs last orders for Stollen by 10am today please.

We have a missing African grey parrot this morning. Apparently he's been spotted in a large pine tree near the church

Ooh, we had a similar escaped 'parrot', turned out to be a pigeon!

Our page is dying a death as it's over moderated. Now we mostly have recommendations for various services/businesses and not much else as it all gets deleted.

Saying that though, we did have the drama of the 'found bobble hat' the other day (left on a bollard in the market place if you're wondering)

Our (large) village had a schism in the local FB group!

Admittedly, we were all tempted onto it when 'Streetlife' sold out (literally) to NextDoorNeighbours or some such, where, to register, you had to provide far too many personal details; someone suggested we walked away from NDN and joined his open group, which many of us duly did, let's say 'Little Chuffington Neighbours'. Sadly, it rapidly became apparent that this was one bloke's vanity project; it truly got ridiculous, him blocking, deleting, 'turning off comments' every 5 minutes, and the endless jokey helicopter sightings, piss-take central- til someone pointed out an elderly resident of a local dementia facility had gone missing; someone hearing a airgun out in the woods one morning, so evidently a 'cat-killer' was at loose... and so forth.

In general, any dissent was met with the owner or his mates going 'It's his site, he can do and say what he wants', but many of us reminded them that this group had been set up as a replacement for StreetLife, but wasn't behaving like StreetLife

Anyway, a 'splinter' closed group formed, called 'Litte Chuffington Friendly Neighbours'- which is way better moderated, though it, too, is 'cat' central with a bit of Xmas Bin Collections thrown in!