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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:
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!

TwirlyWhirlie · 12/04/2024 18:22

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

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?

😂😂😂

VinoVerity · 12/04/2024 18:25

That’s terrible! Call 101

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. !!

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!)

StaunchMomma · 12/04/2024 18:51

Babs man - get your own bloody allotment!

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 :)

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.

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 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 🤣🤣🤣

ManchesterBeatrice · 12/04/2024 19:02

😂

ManchesterBeatrice · 12/04/2024 19:02

Love this

SomersetBrie · 12/04/2024 19:06

Sunquest · 12/04/2024 17:05

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

You don't have to open every thread.
Did you not know that?

Frangipanyoul8r · 12/04/2024 19:13

I’m rooting for Babs. Go Babs!!

Rightsraptor · 12/04/2024 19:19

No it's not funny.

It hasn't been 19 degrees in Yorkshire today. It's been 15 tops.

TwirlyWhirlie · 12/04/2024 19:22

LadyWiddiothethird · 12/04/2024 15:00

Reported as its a TAAT.

Get a life

IwishIdidntlikesugar · 12/04/2024 19:24

Squatters rights Barbara. Solidarity.

Aliastoday · 12/04/2024 19:30

Oh I loved this. I've had a rubbish week and this genuinely made me smile. Thanks! 😂

Mummyoflittledragon · 12/04/2024 19:33

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Someone threatened my allotment.
serin · 12/04/2024 19:35

Made me laugh!
Seriously who would report this?

LardoBurrows · 12/04/2024 19:38

Mummyoflittledragon · 12/04/2024 19:33

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

WOLFIE !

BringMeSunshineAllDayLong · 12/04/2024 19:40

needsomewarmsunshine · 12/04/2024 16:59

Have a biscuit for a taat.

Have a biscuit for being a bore.

Queencam · 12/04/2024 19:43

#teambigbarb

BunniesRUs · 12/04/2024 19:45

Oh Barbara, you can't just take land that isn't yours!