Topic: Tenant or Allotmenteer

[Unwashed]

How does your council refer to you, tenant or allotmenteer?  Do you think it matters?

[saddad]

Neither we are private... which I suppose makes us "members"...  shades of Groucho Marx spring to mind...  :)

[Unwashed]

Grouch Marx? I'm not with you?

[Eristic]

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.

[Unwashed]

I'm with you now.  So, are you a tenant or allotmenteer, or something else?

[elvis2003]

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!

[Old bird]

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

 ;D

[Unwashed]

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.

[saddad]

I'm a Digger/Leveller   :-X

[Eristic]

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.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I'm a Digger/Leveller   :-X

So am I.