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Hectare
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Vexatious, moi?
Tenant or Allotmenteer
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August 03, 2009, 16:48:51 »
How does your council refer to you, tenant or allotmenteer? Do you think it matters?
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saddad
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Re: Tenant or Allotmenteer
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August 03, 2009, 17:09:00 »
Neither we are private... which I suppose makes us "members"... shades of Groucho Marx spring to mind... :)
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August 03, 2009, 23:21:57 »
Grouch Marx? I'm not with you?
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Eristic
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Re: Tenant or Allotmenteer
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August 04, 2009, 12:57:04 »
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Grouch Marx? I'm not with you?
I dunno. The youngsters of today now nothing.
Saddad was referring to a comedy sketch where Groucho was blagging his way into a nightclub. When asked if he was a member he replied to the effect that he wouldn't be seen dead in a club that would accept him as a member.
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August 04, 2009, 13:25:16 »
I'm with you now. So, are you a tenant or allotmenteer, or something else?
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elvis2003
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August 04, 2009, 13:30:55 »
i always refer to us as tenants when talking to the council,or maybe plotholders,but to ourselves we are allotmenteers,also the name of our quiz team,not that we have been for ages!
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Old bird
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August 04, 2009, 14:30:22 »
I'm with you Elvis!
You are a tenant of the Council's Allotments but you are an allotmenteer in terms of how you describe yourself & others!
I - if I could remember what I was taught at school - think that a tenant is a noun (ie name) whereas an "allotmenteer" is a descriptive pro-noun!
Not sure now good 45 years ago!
O B
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August 05, 2009, 18:37:24 »
I think it reveals my council's attitude to us when they call us tenants rather than allotmenteers because they define us by our subordinate relationship to themselves and no by what we do. I know what they call us in itself doesn't much matter, but I'd like them to have a little more respect for us. So I try never to say tenant and always to use allotmenteer.
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saddad
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August 05, 2009, 19:40:21 »
I'm a Digger/Leveller :-X
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Eristic
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Re: Tenant or Allotmenteer
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August 05, 2009, 22:20:57 »
And I'm a manure spreader.
As for being a tenant, that is what I am. If anyone objects to being called a tenant I suggest they go out and buy their own field. If you rent you are a tenant. Get used to it, it's only a title.
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Robert_Brenchley
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Re: Tenant or Allotmenteer
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August 06, 2009, 16:09:38 »
Quote from: saddad on August 05, 2009, 19:40:21
I'm a Digger/Leveller :-X
So am I.
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