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Good Lord they don't half try hard to make 'exciting' programmes don't they?
I bet most of this was set up or 'encouraged' well the confronations were. Shame as it could have put off a lot of keen young and eager or old keen and eager allotment applicants! Nothing about friends or helpful advice, don't suppose the programme makers wanted that. bet they had to look a long way for guard dogs, cctv, chnaged locks and so on ! When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? -- Janet T. Amersham |
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"Janet Tweedy" wrote ...
Good Lord they don't half try hard to make 'exciting' programmes don't they? I bet most of this was set up or 'encouraged' well the confronations were. Shame as it could have put off a lot of keen young and eager or old keen and eager allotment applicants! Nothing about friends or helpful advice, don't suppose the programme makers wanted that. bet they had to look a long way for guard dogs, cctv, chnaged locks and so on ! When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? I read the write up and recorded it just to see how bad it gets. But I don't recognise the problems from my experience, mostly it's very friendly and we help each other, at least most do. There are always a cross section of personalities and abilities on every site and you soon learn which want to chat and which only grunt or moan constantly. It's not just finding the site it's finding one with a spare allotment. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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In message , Bob Hobden
writes It's not just finding the site it's finding one with a spare allotment. I was lucky as ours had recently decided to cut all plots they were offering in half as they'd had so many people taking one on & then giving up. There was thus no waiting list & I got one of the half plots immediately. Them, the person who had my other 1/2 plot gave up & now I've got both. :) -- Simon 12) The Second Rule of Expectations An EXPECTATION is a Premeditated resentment. |
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:03:52 +0100, Martin wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:03:35 -0000, "Bob Hobden" wrote: "Janet Tweedy" wrote ... Good Lord they don't half try hard to make 'exciting' programmes don't they? I bet most of this was set up or 'encouraged' well the confronations were. Shame as it could have put off a lot of keen young and eager or old keen and eager allotment applicants! Nothing about friends or helpful advice, don't suppose the programme makers wanted that. bet they had to look a long way for guard dogs, cctv, chnaged locks and so on ! When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? Define nice... My wife should have watched. She's secretary of a gardening club AKA the allotments from hell. The woman who only visited her weed covered allotment twice in 12 months and complained that somebody had stolen her pumpkins, when in fact they had rotted away, explained that she wasn't a hobby gardener, but was performing serious experiments. She is an ex-gardening club experimenter now. She can watch it on iplayer? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...llotment_Wars/ -- http://www.voucherfreebies.co.uk |
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"mogga" wrote in message ... On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:03:52 +0100, Martin wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:03:35 -0000, "Bob Hobden" wrote: "Janet Tweedy" wrote ... Good Lord they don't half try hard to make 'exciting' programmes don't they? I bet most of this was set up or 'encouraged' well the confronations were. Shame as it could have put off a lot of keen young and eager or old keen and eager allotment applicants! Nothing about friends or helpful advice, don't suppose the programme makers wanted that. bet they had to look a long way for guard dogs, cctv, chnaged locks and so on ! When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? Define nice... My wife should have watched. She's secretary of a gardening club AKA the allotments from hell. The woman who only visited her weed covered allotment twice in 12 months and complained that somebody had stolen her pumpkins, when in fact they had rotted away, explained that she wasn't a hobby gardener, but was performing serious experiments. She is an ex-gardening club experimenter now. She can watch it on iplayer? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...llotment_Wars/ Good grief!! Who wouldathunkit. One thinks of gardening and allotmenteering as such gentle pursuits. Thanks for sharing that. -- -- http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/ |
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"Ophelia" wrote in message ... "mogga" wrote in message ... On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:03:52 +0100, Martin wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:03:35 -0000, "Bob Hobden" wrote: "Janet Tweedy" wrote ... Good Lord they don't half try hard to make 'exciting' programmes don't they? I bet most of this was set up or 'encouraged' well the confronations were. Shame as it could have put off a lot of keen young and eager or old keen and eager allotment applicants! Nothing about friends or helpful advice, don't suppose the programme makers wanted that. bet they had to look a long way for guard dogs, cctv, chnaged locks and so on ! When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? Define nice... My wife should have watched. She's secretary of a gardening club AKA the allotments from hell. The woman who only visited her weed covered allotment twice in 12 months and complained that somebody had stolen her pumpkins, when in fact they had rotted away, explained that she wasn't a hobby gardener, but was performing serious experiments. She is an ex-gardening club experimenter now. She can watch it on iplayer? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...llotment_Wars/ Good grief!! Who wouldathunkit. One thinks of gardening and allotmenteering as such gentle pursuits. Thanks for sharing that. -- -- http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/ ""gardening and allotmenteering as such gentle pursuits"". ????????????????? Not when you see those attacking others on here you wouldn't think that!! Kindest regards and a Happy New Year. Mike -- .................................... I'm an Angel, honest ! The horns are there just to keep the halo straight. .................................... |
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On Wednesday, 23 January 2013 00:07:19 UTC, Janet wrote:
Good Lord they don't half try hard to make 'exciting' programmes don't they? I bet most of this was set up or 'encouraged' well the confronations were. Shame as it could have put off a lot of keen young and eager or old keen and eager allotment applicants! Nothing about friends or helpful advice, don't suppose the programme makers wanted that. bet they had to look a long way for guard dogs, cctv, chnaged locks and so on ! When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? -- Janet T. Amersham This was one of the worst programmes on allotment gardening put out by any TV broadcaster.I have been involved in our local allotment scene for nearly 50years,and at different times as secretary,chairman,show judge,etc and I can honestly say that I could not identify any of the characters with anyone on our or local allotments.I copied the programme also,and was going to show it to those who missed it;however it was so poor and negative,it has been deleted. Michael South Manchester |
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"michael" wrote in message ... On Wednesday, 23 January 2013 00:07:19 UTC, Janet wrote: Good Lord they don't half try hard to make 'exciting' programmes don't they? I bet most of this was set up or 'encouraged' well the confronations were. Shame as it could have put off a lot of keen young and eager or old keen and eager allotment applicants! Nothing about friends or helpful advice, don't suppose the programme makers wanted that. bet they had to look a long way for guard dogs, cctv, chnaged locks and so on ! When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? -- Janet T. Amersham This was one of the worst programmes on allotment gardening put out by any TV broadcaster.I have been involved in our local allotment scene for nearly 50years,and at different times as secretary,chairman,show judge,etc and I can honestly say that I could not identify any of the characters with anyone on our or local allotments.I copied the programme also,and was going to show it to those who missed it;however it was so poor and negative,it has been deleted. Michael South Manchester Michael a few years back one of the TV channels put on a series reenacting National Service. You have never seen such rubbish and playing to the cameras in all your life. One of my illustrated talks is on National Service and there is always a good rapport and feedback on time spent in National Service. Why do those who know nothing about it do such things? Mike -- .................................... I'm an Angel, honest ! The horns are there just to keep the halo straight. .................................... |
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"michael" wrote in message ... On Wednesday, 23 January 2013 00:07:19 UTC, Janet wrote: Good Lord they don't half try hard to make 'exciting' programmes don't they? I bet most of this was set up or 'encouraged' well the confronations were. Shame as it could have put off a lot of keen young and eager or old keen and eager allotment applicants! Nothing about friends or helpful advice, don't suppose the programme makers wanted that. bet they had to look a long way for guard dogs, cctv, chnaged locks and so on ! When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? -- Janet T. Amersham This was one of the worst programmes on allotment gardening put out by any TV broadcaster.I have been involved in our local allotment scene for nearly 50years,and at different times as secretary,chairman,show judge,etc and I can honestly say that I could not identify any of the characters with anyone on our or local allotments.I copied the programme also,and was going to show it to those who missed it;however it was so poor and negative,it has been deleted. Manchester I raised this among gardening friends after sharing the URL for that programme. I suppose it depends where you are but certainly among our friends we have had some horror stories that have occurred at their allotment areas, from sabotage among competition rivals to minor theft between holders of plots to large scale theft by villains stealing whole crops for sale on market stalls. It is by no means a daily occurrence but one of the sites in outer London was repeatedly hit by theft until they took some fairly expensive security measures. -- -- http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/ |
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"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... Good Lord they don't half try hard to make 'exciting' programmes don't they? I bet most of this was set up or 'encouraged' well the confronations were. Shame as it could have put off a lot of keen young and eager or old keen and eager allotment applicants! Nothing about friends or helpful advice, don't suppose the programme makers wanted that. bet they had to look a long way for guard dogs, cctv, chnaged locks and so on ! When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? -- Janet T. Amersham Unfortunately, I don't think this is unusual and is why I keep my land to myself. I could easily rent some but don't want the bickering. |
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"Martin" wrote in message ... On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:32:40 +0000, mogga wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:03:52 +0100, Martin wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:03:35 -0000, "Bob Hobden" wrote: "Janet Tweedy" wrote ... Good Lord they don't half try hard to make 'exciting' programmes don't they? I bet most of this was set up or 'encouraged' well the confronations were. Shame as it could have put off a lot of keen young and eager or old keen and eager allotment applicants! Nothing about friends or helpful advice, don't suppose the programme makers wanted that. bet they had to look a long way for guard dogs, cctv, chnaged locks and so on ! When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? Define nice... My wife should have watched. She's secretary of a gardening club AKA the allotments from hell. The woman who only visited her weed covered allotment twice in 12 months and complained that somebody had stolen her pumpkins, when in fact they had rotted away, explained that she wasn't a hobby gardener, but was performing serious experiments. She is an ex-gardening club experimenter now. She can watch it on iplayer? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...llotment_Wars/ Not outside UK. It will be repeated everything is repeated. -- Martin I felt very sorry for the man who kept trying to pay his allotment charge. It was clear that they wanted him off site. but they went way silly by not letting him out and calling the police. |
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"Christina Websell" wrote
I felt very sorry for the man who kept trying to pay his allotment charge. It was clear that they wanted him off site. but they went way silly by not letting him out and calling the police. I had some sympathy for him too especially when the locked him in but did you see him planting the pumpkins, in a weed infested plot! Perhaps that's a little of what we didn't see, if he's planting in weeds I bet by the time harvest comes you can't see the pumpkins. Could be a reason his neighbours want him off. Why don't people use a hoe, 5 mins easy work and all those weeds would be dead. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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snip When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? -- Janet T. Amersham I did not see this prog. but have heard about it. My daughter lives in Edinburgh and spends lots of time walking her dog on Blackford Hill. She sent me a photograph that showed the river/sea in the background the city and castle and in the foreground a quite large gathering of allotments. She tells me that the people there are a very happy and social bunch, they help each other out if needed and have many a outdoor party down there, sounds good to me. kate, |
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"Kate Morgan" wrote in message o.uk... snip When i move to my next house i am going to find somewhere near a nice set of allotments,,,, trouble is how hard is that to find? -- Janet T. Amersham I did not see this prog. but have heard about it. My daughter lives in Edinburgh and spends lots of time walking her dog on Blackford Hill. She sent me a photograph that showed the river/sea in the background the city and castle and in the foreground a quite large gathering of allotments. She tells me that the people there are a very happy and social bunch, they help each other out if needed and have many a outdoor party down there, sounds good to me. That is so good to hear! They can't be the only group like that, surely? -- -- http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/ |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote I felt very sorry for the man who kept trying to pay his allotment charge. It was clear that they wanted him off site. but they went way silly by not letting him out and calling the police. I had some sympathy for him too especially when the locked him in but did you see him planting the pumpkins, in a weed infested plot! Perhaps that's a little of what we didn't see, if he's planting in weeds I bet by the time harvest comes you can't see the pumpkins. Could be a reason his neighbours want him off. Why don't people use a hoe, 5 mins easy work and all those weeds would be dead. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Not using a hoe and having a few weeds is not an excuse to get the police to turn him off because he is late with his rent, but he tried to pay it and no-one would let him. I don't know the whole situation but this is just why I would prefer to keep my land to myself. |
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