Topic: Pumpkin Massacre

[busy_lizzie]

Decided to pop over to the allotment before tea as I needed some more potatoes.  I was crossing the basket ball court near my allotment site when I saw an ominous site,  - pieces of pumpkins smashed all over the court.  Rushed to my plot and sure enough my huge massive pumpkin and another medium sized one were missing. My gorgeous beautiful smiling pumpkins had been massacred  :( >:(.. 

Vandals seem to have got in around the back of the plot and taken them.  Have a couple of little ones left and two tiny ones.  I was saving the big one to see how much more it would grow.  I am so glad I took the other pumpkins home with me in the wheelbarrow as I feel sure they would have gone too.  Ah well, that is life!  When I left the Site two boys were kicking  the carcases around the basket ball court; It has made a terrible mess.  Reprimanded them (sure they weren't the culprits that stole them), they just saw them and decided to use them as footballs.  Have picked some of the big seeds and will dry them for next year, so not everything was lost. busy_lizzie

[Debs]

Jean,

Some kids ( presumably) should be kicked around in the same  way  that they kicked your

pumpkins.

Mindless vandalism.

Makes me so angry.

Debs  >:(

[Doris_Pinks]

Oh BL, I would be devastated. I suppose those lovely bright orange globes are just too tempting to the mindless little twerps that have nothing better to do with their time!

I actually camouflaged mine when they got big and beautiful under fleece and then decided to take them off the plot just in case.

Glad you got your others off!   DP

[spacehopper]

Little sods. I'd report them.  >:(

[busy_lizzie]

My OH I and were just talking about next year and how we could protect them, fleece sounds like a good idea DP.  Thank you all for your sympathy.  My OH says he is surprised I have taken it so well as he thought I would be in tears at the sight of all that devastation, but I think I had prepared myself for it as they did stand out and attracted a lot of attention. busy_lizzie

[wardy]

mindless bleeders   ;D

[Delilah]

Gutted for you BL - amazed how positively you,ve taken the massacre!!!!!

[Moggle]

Oh BL, poor you! I wonder if some of the non-orange ones (crown prince, choggia etc) would be less visible to vandals too.

[RSJK]

Feel so sorry for you BL,  but please try and remember that the poor little B##t##d# that did this perhaps came from a broken family and of course there is nothing what so ever for them to do these days ( how the hell did we ever amuse are selves in days gone by I shudder to think ) The little s##ts want birching.

[Heldi]

Aw Busy I'm so sorry for you.  I'd be gutted. Well done you for taking it so well.

[Mrs Ava]

Oh BL!  You are being very brave!!  My auntie has an allotment in Basingstoke and they suffer from vandalism so she purposely lets the weeds grow around the plants to hide the fruits from the gate.  Tis such a shame!  I despair with kids sometimes, I really do!

P.S.  BL, been thinking of you since the weekend and hope you sat on your bench in the sunshine and had happy thoughts.

[jaggythistle]

  Sorry thats happend to you BL :'(.... Richard how do you come by the kids n
  broken homes comment..?

[undercarriage plan]

So sorry, Bizzie Lizzie, must have felt awful when you found them. Woud send you one, but mine didn't even develope this year! Best wishes. Lottie

[Derekthefox]

If you are local, you are welcome to a couple of mine ...

Derekthefox :D

[busy_lizzie]

Thank you all so much.  You are all so nice.  :-* Have felt a bit vulnerable today.  Thank you so much for your thoughts Emma, that is kind of you.  We went to St. Nicholas's Cathedral in Newcastle today and I lit a candle in rememberance of my Mam who died a year today.  busy_lizzie