What's kicking off in your local Facebook group?

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Tonight it's like all the pressure of the lockdown has blown open! The People reporting white vans are back, but the most exciting thing is the fact a lamb is stuck in the canal. We're talking full on 'ive got mobile lights im going there now' and rallying around to get the sheep out of the canal, but no one knows where it is.

Update! The lamb got out on its own..

It's all kicking off cos someone in our village who has been making tacky rainbow hearts out of pallet wood for £20, now has a rival! Only their tacky rainbow hearts, are only £12. Lots of arguments about who's business was first, coupled with people complaining that the hearts they've seen are wonky anyway (they are). It's extremely entertaining.

Ours is getting bored, sometime had found the FB page of a town in the US with the same name and they are winding them up and it is starting to get a bit nasty. Pretty embarrassed about my town right now.

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Update! The lamb got out on its own..

Hurrah! Go Larry the lamb!

‘What time does Boots at X street open?’ It’s a small town with 2 branches of boots. Apart from the first couple of weeks of lockdown, when admittedly the opening hours were all over the place, one is open in the morning and the other in the afternoon. But every bloody day at least 3 people post asking.

To add to my previous post, there's a very talented photographer that's posting gorgeous pictures of joyous dogs having lovely walks on our (mainly) deserted beaches, and the swans who've had 3 cygnets in our local park. They make me smile every day, and are a very welcome respite from the madness we see on our local site every day.

Litter
Storm drains overflowing because bored kids keep chucking empty Nos canisters down them
Bored kids smoking weed in the park
Moaning about new safety measures at the tip
Was it a bird? Was it a plane? (Apparently it was a ruddy great eagle)
Parcels getting pinched off doorsteps
Lost dog
More litter
Bob has lost his left trainer (size 9)have you seen it? (fuck alone knows how he managed this)
Bonfire bastards
Garden waste collections
Bob has been reunited with his left trainer! Hurrah!

Gripping stuff, I'm sure you will agree.

Somebody's car got stolen and it's somehow evolved into two people rowing over an unrelated matter.

*unrelated personal matter- not caused by any comments!

Dog poo/lost dog (now found)/wandering cats

Mocking the people in the queue for nearest
town McDonalds in that "MY children only eat organic lentils/you could make 10 burgers at home in the same time" tone YAWN 🥱

Someone giving away plants

Mad Scentsy lady who posts 17 times a day.

*Missing cats
*Is this cat missing posts
*Found dog posts
*What time does the post office open
*People have forgotten about social distancing in the local supermarket
*11ty billion lockdown photography doorstep photos

Mcdonalds queue, planning permission for new housing development, possible planning permission for Burger King drivethrough, unfair allocation of nursery places, fly tipping, the fact the Scottish government have sent out a survey to shielders but the website crashes when you try and access it.

I live on the edge of the Peak District. Local councils are asking shops in the area to stop selling disposable barbecues because of all the fires they have started.

Mountain rescue have been out more times they can remember to rescue injured walkers.

And the good news is that the council are starting green bin collections from next week.

Oh, I forgot the ice cream van which charged a kid a fiver for two ice creams and wanted extra for sauce.

There was much debate about whose ice cream van it was with a lot of loyalty for van B who apparently only charges £1.70 for an ice cream and gives free sauce.

There have been pictures naming and shaming the rip off merchant which is ice cream van A so everybody knows not to go out to it.

Apparently ice cream van C which operates in the big park is also a bit of a rip off but not as bad as van A.

Locals are now encouraging each other to buy their own tubs of icecream and cones to save money.

Complaining about the queue for the tip
Complaining about the queue for McDonalds
Complaining about the litter being left in all the beauty Spots (that was last weekend more, when it was hot and sunny)
Major upset this week was our local water company sent out automated messages to ask people to limit their water use yes, despite the fact it didn't stop raining between September and February BUT it somehow managed to send them all our between midnight and 5am so we all got calls waking us in the middle of the night. Now I know that was frightening for some people and obviously annoying for most of us, but the way some people are talking you'd think at least 17 innocent children had been murdered in their beds.

*Travellers have appeared on the cricket ground
*BLM demonstration
*major row about parking on a road - somebody's gone along and keyed all the cars
*lost and found cats, sadly not the same one
*is x restaurant doing takeaways?

Some of these sound familiar! 😂

We’ve got a motel in our area which temporarily houses people waiting for accommodation (domestic violence victims etc.) so there is often requests for help for things like clothes and toiletries.

Then you get the usual complaints about people’s driving/parking etc. Dog shit, teenagers causing a nuisance somewhere in the village, people having a clear out so lots of ‘is this any good to anyone..?’ posts, questions like ‘What time is the shop/post office/pharmacy open until today?’, a few people asking if someone is going to the shop/post office/pharmacy and if so could they either pick up something or drop something off due to self isolating etc. There is also some silliness from one or two people, who photograph gnomes in various situations with captions and post them (seems to be popular bizarrely!). No mention of McDonalds though! 😂

We got a new food truck today, so it’s been mad excitement. Many posts about lengths of queues.

There’s a rumour the Saturday farmers market might re-start soon, which will involve many food trucks. I predict fainting spells, fits of the vapours, etc.

It's been removed thankfully but somebody's dog was killed on a country lane. Someone had posted photos of the poor animals body on the road, alerting all and sundry to what had happened and vilifying the driver far and wide.
What seemed to escape people was that the dog was loose on the road (having escaped its house) , the speed limit was 60mph so unlikely the driver was "speeding", and nobody knew whether it had actually been reported to police as it should be.
There were calls for the driver to be towed 50m behind a truck and suggestions that the owner should contact all garages to see if anyone took in a black car with a damaged light. People were even sharing it in Manchester

Oh and in lighter news, the unbridled enthusiasm for the new milk vending machine

Actually I have no idea, I got stuck elsewhere for lockdown so joined group but don't need it as much now.

Think it was mainly about food. And I can go home soon anyway. It's been a funny old lockdown

dog in the village went missing, and about 30 village people went out looking far and wide for it, whilst keeping on updating on their phones, at different points on their travels.Some were even out at dusk, telling everyone that they were using phone torches to see in the woods.

The dog made it back home later, it had only got through the hedge of the owners, and gone into a small field area behind the house.

I live in this village, and always,if there is missing cat or dog, it gets more publicity than a more serious thing,as in a car theft, or a break in at a house etc.

Face masks - this has gone on all day.
Fish Poachers
Dog pooh
Riots
Group of kids outside the local Tesco

Im also in a group that if you’ve been kicked out of the main local group you can be added in the new group it’s called

‘If you’ve been kicked out of xxxxxxx’

No holds barred on this page

Ours is super boring, people selling items, local businesses advertising re openings. Posts are moderated before they are allowed to appear.

Close surveillance of the policemen that are surveilling the totally guilty don't bother with a trial suspected drug pushers.
Close surveillance of small children lockdown breaking park users being supervised only by a sunbathing adult.
Parking.