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Was down on the plot today picking strawberries waiting for the o.h as he was in our committee meeting,he came out and went straight to our goosberry bushes and started using foul language,when i asked him what was the matter he told me that the committe had had a few complaints that gooseberries had been nicked off other plot holders and low and behold our bushes had been stripped also
Anyone else had this sort of problem on their plots?

Hey Grockie

The buggers have had my goosgogs too.......

Dear Grockie, no i can't say i have suffered such a nasty deed, but that might be because i don't have any gooseberry bushes.

I saw a couple of blackbirds sat scoffing gooseberries under a neighbours gooseberry bush just yesterday... Are you sure it's not birds? I know it would take a LOT of birds, but there are a lot of birds about

Pheasants like them too (as well as peasants that is).

Nope, def n ot birdies cos there would be goosegogs left on the ground if it was. The bushes have been completely stripped bare

Hi I lost all my gooseberrys last year, one day they were there and the next when my friend went to get them they were gone. All of them, the whole bush.

Other allotment holders said birds but I say not. I agree that birds would drop a few or leave a few not clear the whole bush. Also a neighbouring plot holder lost all his cherries and someone else some brocoli.

Unfortunately there are some lightfingered people around. Our plots do not have any security at all, not even a hedge now as that was considered dangerous and ripped out last year, so we are very vunerable. I just wonder how the thief would feel if we went and helped ourselves to the contents of their larder!

Kate

Me again - same allotment holder who lost his cherries then put a sign on his grapes to say they were sprayed and should not be eaten or they may cause a stomach upset - not true as he is organic but he didn't loose his grapes

Kate

Dear Kate, i would say the thief would be very upset if you helped yourself to the contents of his larder, especially as it would have taken him a good while to pick all your Gooseberries.

My thoughts exactly. Funny how people don't think it works both ways isn't it?

I have thought about putting a big sign on my plot reading

"All Plants Personally Peed on by the Plot Holder".

If the alliteration doesn't finish them off, they may think twice about stealing from me, especially as it is more or less true (you know me guys ).

Dear Chantal, do you know i have never been able to get to grips with the word alliteration, and it hasn't helped using it for your sentence.

Can anyone explain it in an easy Country boy way please.

Dear OH

It's lots of words beginning with the same letter.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper

Happy Herby hated hot horseradish

Thanks Alan, now why didn't my Primary English teacher say, Happy Herby hated hot horseradish, then i would have understood the meaning.

Or maybe she did, but i was too occupied with little Debbie who used to sit near me.

OH, here she is, just as you remember her