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General => The Shed => Topic started by: manicscousers on May 30, 2007, 18:51:09
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and what would you do
there's a derelict farm near us, when we go past it sometimes, there's a big white van, sometimes a car as well, the van's doors are open and it's backed up to the barn door..when it's not there, he door's closed with all sorts of rubbish piled up outside it
do I do something or am I too suspicious
your ideas, please :)
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My oh seems to see similar goings on ,so if in doubt he will make a note of reg 'plates.
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Sounds very fishy to me.
Reasons...
An illicit love affair.
New owners, looking over the place.
Old owners reminiscing about the older days.
Drug smugglers.
Drug growers.
It's full of illegal immigrants.
All very odd. I like number one best, but I think I would be being more nosey, can you see inside through a crack. With caution I might add.
I think I would be phoning somewhere.
But then I am suspicious too, definately sound fishy to me,and that is what block watch is all about.
XX Jeannine
XX Jeannine
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I don't think I can get near enough to look, it's on it's own , the whole place is falling down so, I don't think anyone's thinking of buying it, they're not looking around, just in the barn, a few times now..I don't want to waste police time, they've got enough to do, especially if it's only something silly
wondering about crime stoppers ?
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might be fly tippers?
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i don't think they would be going back all the time ?
it's got me really puzzled, I'm going to have to do something !! :-\
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Actually it could be fly tippers you know, they could have found an isolated spot to dump something bad on a regular basis, it does happen,and they would put it out of sight, that's worth a thought.
If they are going to the trouble of putting junk on front of the door, there is some reason why they don't want people to go in the barn and it would seem strange that they would take the risk of leaving something valuable in there, even if it was stolen.
Do they always come at the same time?
XX Jeannine
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yes, we're usually on our way to the plot, early saturday mornings
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Worrying isn't it? If you do nothing, and later on it turns out something really bad was going on, you will never forgive yourself. My choice would be crimestoppers. Just explain it as you have to us, it's anonymous and you may well be helping someone out!
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i think it's probably gardeners of an different sort. ;D
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If i was in your shoes i would be straight down to my local Police Station and report it. The reality is we live in a world of terrorism as well as organised crime and drug related crimes. What you have seen may be nothing but no one will ever criticise you for for reporting it, on the other hand if you don,t and what you have seen results in the loss of life you have to live with that for the rest of your life.
I have known a few people who have never completed the sentence " It will never happen to me".
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Do you know who owns the property? Farm buildings are often rented out for storage. My brother rents one. He just keeps dirty bulky stuff for his work there, nothing valuable. I'd ask around the neibourhood, spread the word about what you've seen, someone will know something.
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I would phone the police, tell them you are concerned, I think they will investigate it,XX Jeannine
Could it be someone illegally stabling a horse
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BE VERY VERY CAREFUL, IF IN ANY DOUBT CALL THE POLICE.( if you can find one)
I WOULD HATE TO SEE ANY OF OUR FRIENDS HURT.
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I'd call the police, if they're legit it's no problem, and they wouldn't mind questions.
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thanks for the advice, folks, I'll keep you informed :)
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Call the police then you've done your bit , it's off your shoulders and in the hands of the people who should be dealing with it. Simple pimple.
If it's nothing...it's nothing,if it turns out to be criminal then well done to you.
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This should give you a laugh then!
A few years ago I was walking my 4 dogs and my friends 4 large gun dogs on Exmoor in a forest late autumn time!
Went round a corner and there was a man crouching down with a back pack on and he was holding a knife. I though Oh my lord! Not wanting to turn tail in case it gave him the idea to chase me - I can run but I was 2 miles from any habitation! I decided to walk past said man.
He stood up and said in a foreign accent "you have a lot of dogs" thankfully I thought Yes I do! and then I carried on - trouble was I was on a round route and needed to walk to top to get back home whereby he may have doubled back. I was pretty hot and sweaty by the time I got home! Called the police who immediately sent out a couple of cars.
They came back about 3 hours later - splitting their sides with mirth - the "man with a knife" was none other than a local Italian Restauranteur who was out looking for fungi - which is why he was crouched down looking along at ground level for fungi!
He saw the funny side - so did I but makes you think though!
Have a lovely weekend everyone
Old Bird
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I'd call the police too, and let them deal with it. Like everyone else has said, it could be goodness knows what going on there, and genuine people won't mind being asked a few questions. Let us know the outcome! (& be careful!) x
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Jeannine's right you may have discovered Shergar. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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The police are employed to investigate things like this so let them do their job. It will put your mind at rest too.
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Live and let live, if they are growing drugs it's only cannabis. Too many Famous Five books has given me the same inquisitive nature, but I have learned to put a cap on it :)
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Dunno manics, if it is cannabis you could go and give them lottie tips and build them a polytunnel. "No, look,you don't do it like that - have you never been onto Allotments for All? Tsk" ;D ;D
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Actually if it is pot, they chuck out there growing soil regulary and replace it after harvest,it is great stuff if you can get it secondhand.They usually have a problem getting rid of it as thay have loads of the stuff XX Jeannine
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I love how you know this stuff Jeannine!!
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I just knew someone was gonna ask me that!!
When we lived in Canada on acreage my son rang one day and asked me if I could use some used potting soil, he said his friends dad used a lot for his flower hobby and he replaces it often.
Well of course I said yes, and they brought it...a small truck load, it was dumped on my veggie plot and I thought it was fantastic. I got it for a couple of years. I remember once asking why his Dad didn't put it on his own garden and I was told it was paved and all his 'flowers' where in the greenhouses.
Eventually someone else I knew cottoned on and told me. I couldn't
believe I was that naive. I never figured out why it didn't dawn on me actually cos I got about three loads a year.
I challenged my son's friend and he told me the truth. Apparently finding a place to dump it is a problem,unless they find a very gullible idiot like me.
XX Jeannine
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That's a good story Jeannine, but I don't know, you are relaxed, mellow, experimental in your growing...I just don't know!! ;D ;D
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Now come on Emmy. where would I find the room with all my squash and tomatoes.
Besides it smells like burning grass,I smell it all the time on home visits, and if I really did want some I know who sells what on the estate I work on. When they get a new stock just listen for the fireworks.1 going off means the duty free cigarettes have arrived, 2 going off means the drugs are in stock.
MMMmmm, they do tell me it is good for pain though.
Back to work tomorrow... dum diddy diddy diddy dum.
XX Jeannine
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WELL MANIC,
What's happening?
What have you done about it?
The wimmin have taken over & the plot is lost!
A report & results!!
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I know its a long shot but could it be a farmer?? Instead of a fly tipping horse burying dope growing illegal immigrant?
If in doubt blame the immigrants and keep reading the daily mail.
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I won't say another word
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maybe there is a celler under the barn?
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got the address, still worrying, about 50/50 on here..next step, ask around the neighbours ???
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thats the job the police should be doing.
Contact your local PCSO ( community police) and explain to them your concerns.
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You just want to play Miss Marple don't you Manics?! ;D
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emmy ::) ;D ;D..i'm beginning to look like margaret rutherford ;D
when I said neighbours, I meant one of mine, her daughter is a p.c..
she's going to get the number of the community police for me..and some advice :)
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Manics, she is THE Miss Marple in my opinion. ;D
Just the sort to go poking around in a den of iniquity.
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WELL? Dying to know what's going on in the barn!!
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passed all the info on to catherine, p.c..she's taking it from there for me, I'll keep you all informed if they do anything :-\ :)
don't think I want to do any sleuthing arond the barn, emmy, the bloomin' roof's about to fall off, I kid you not, one of the other ones has fallen sideways in the wind ;D
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Could be a mafia type drug ring thingy, and the scousers could be chief witnesses in the case and are given new identity's and go to live in the west Indies and given their own plantation to work, and when they come on a4a they have to use their secret names something like Manic Mango's, any other ideas. ??? ;D ;D ;D
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Kev, you really do have an overactive imagination don't you :o Made me laugh out loud though ;) ;D
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Got this today from our local police
Do you know who is living in the house next door? Would you know if your neighbours were involved in drug-related or other criminal activity?
We need you to help us tackle the production and supply of cannabis and other illegal drugs. You can do this by being alert to unusual behaviour and being vigilant in reporting suspicious activity to the pollice.
Some of the tell-tale signs that a factory is being set up are:-
Curtains are constantly drawn.
No-one seems to be living in the property There is a strange smell Paper is put up at the windows There is excess heat coming from the property There is condensation on the windows or even on the brick work of the house
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Looks and sounds just like the area I work in
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Reading this, who needs a TV. This is full of humour, intrigue, mystery ???, suspicion and suspense. Cannot wait for the outcome. Tuning in tomorrow for the next episode ;D
Lauren
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I am not kidding, when they mention seeds trust me they are not talking about cabbages.
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Ahhhhhhhhh I was hoping to read the outcome,very intriguing.
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Hi Cambourne 7
In my neighbourhood the police comes when it is snowing.
The roofs without snow are the ones where people grow cannabis.
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don't know if they read through this forum, haven't seen them since last friday..if they're there tomorrow am, will ring then..all set :)
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Even 'weed' has a different meaning to what we have on the allotment
Rosemary
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I just knew someone was gonna ask me that!!
When we lived in Canada on acreage my son rang one day and asked me if I could use some used potting soil, he said his friends dad used a lot for his flower hobby and he replaces it often.
Well of course I said yes, and they brought it...a small truck load, it was dumped on my veggie plot and I thought it was fantastic. I got it for a couple of years. I remember once asking why his Dad didn't put it on his own garden and I was told it was paved and all his 'flowers' where in the greenhouses.
Eventually someone else I knew cottoned on and told me. I couldn't
believe I was that naive. I never figured out why it didn't dawn on me actually cos I got about three loads a year.
I challenged my son's friend and he told me the truth. Apparently finding a place to dump it is a problem,unless they find a very gullible idiot like me.
XX Jeannine
did you find any rogue seeds ??? :-*
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does it glow eerily in the dark ........ if it was a dope farm it would be a hellova good heat source for the helicopters to spot.
keep an ear out for low night flying choppers !
:o 8)
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just had three big raids around here.................police found three dope factorys up and running in some metal containers.....like the type on the back of lorrys.
and whilst on the subject.....................
i used to keep birds in outdoor aviarys................some freinds of mine who partake in natural smoking material became very interested one year when i decided to let grow what dropped from the seed bowls instead of cleaning it all up.
all became clear when i got a visit from the local constabulary informing me that the pretty plants growing in my flights were in fact cannabis plants!
they accepted my ignorance..............but it caused quite a lot of amusement amongst my natural smoking mates that id had the drug squad in to clean my aviarys......lol
oh..............and im so pleased that i never gave some of the plants to my mum..she saw them too....and asked if she could take some of the "pretty plants".to put in her garden!
strange tho.................the birds that ate those plants seemed a lot happier then..............lol
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I once moved into a house with a very ferny looking plant in the border by the front door. I didn't know what it was but tended it carefully as it looked pretty.
My son came one day and casually said, " your cannabis plant looks good Mum"
I almost died on the spot,rushed outside,uprooted it and bit by bit I flushed it.
All my son could say was" Mum, you could have got some good money for that"
This was my second experience with finding a pot plant, I will tell you other one some other time.
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I wouldn't know a POT plant if it grew 10ft. I must be on the look out for odd looking plants then ;D
Lauren
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I wouldn't know a POT plant if it grew 10ft. I must be on the look out for odd looking plants then ;D
Lauren
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/cannabis/
Here you go
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When my late husband was in really bad pain with severe arthritis (plus other conditions) he mentioned to a person we knew that if he knew where he could get some cannabis he would even try that. Pain killers didn't agree with him.
Cut a long story short he received a few "smokes".. He hadn't smoked cigs for 25years. He tried one of the smokes and nearly choked to death!!! He said never again I will put up with the pain. 2 years after his death I found the remaining smokes. I was so worried I stood in the loo and carefully broke them up and flushed them down the loo. I bet the sewer rats were happy for a while.
Lorna.
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aw thats sweet lorna :D
Its a pity they did not work and lessin his pain.
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Should have baked a cake instead - er, not that I know anything about this personally of course. (http://bestsmileys.com/innocent/2.gif)
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Greyhound. Wish someone had told me how ;D ;D ;D
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I have recipe for Hash Brownies XX Jeannine
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I understand mixed with yoghurt is quite nice.
:P
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I have been well and truly "medicined " by eating a well loaded chocolate brownie. Sound funny? Believe you me, it was not a kewl chillin experience. Heart stopped twice. Don't be so fooled by this "recreational drug" It is not so innocent. It nearly killed me.
That is me,
<------ over there...nearly dead and l would have left behind a little boy and the Toot wouldn't even exist . Not so funny now is it.
Go easy.
Oh and I wasn't a first time ignoranmous. I've done the do over the years so don't think you know it all because you probably don't.
And that is a general "you" not a point the finger "you"
So that's me being serious for once.
Ends now!!! :P
And don't trust anyone who bakes lol
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that's what comes from not following a recipe ! agreed though, ingested hash can be very scary. there's no controlling it the effects, so i've heard.
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I have recipe for Hash Brownies XX Jeannine
Why does that not surprise me?!
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It is in a hand printed cookbook on self sufficiency from a commune in Lousianna, apart from the few silly recipes it is actually quite good,I would of course never bake it or give anyone the recipe as I entirely agree with Heldi. It also has a chapter on growing tobacco and drying it and skinning a possum.
It is not a laughing matter either but I have heard some funny stories connected to pot, but the basis of those is scary too.
Heldi I am glad you were OK and your message is very valuable so thank you for sharing it.
XX Jeannine
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I ate two baking trays worth with my mates once, after the free party we had organised got busted by the fuzz. At the time i was mildly freaked out by how long it went on for, but the charles dickens time travel experience I experienced whilst sitting on my door step was pretty cool.
Its all part of growing up - i dont touch anything now, makes you far too lazy.
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Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. 8)
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I ate two baking trays worth with my mates once, after the free party we had organised got busted by the fuzz.
(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/1231/z7shysterical.gif)
At the time i was mildly freaked out by how long it went on for, but the charles dickens time travel experience I experienced whilst sitting on my door step was pretty cool.
Its all part of growing up - i dont touch anything now, makes you far too lazy.
Makes my hayfever 10 times worse ........ just like cutting the grass 8) :P
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Thanks Jeannine. I get bit annoyed about the fact that what the effects of particularly cannabis are,are not spoken about truthfully . Both the good and bad.
You think you know about something and then it turns around and punches you in the face like what happened to me. I want people to be aware even though I find the whole episode embarrassing to admit to, very stupid of me and extremely scary.
I'm not on any anti drugs bandwagon (I like music and art ;) and I drink alcohol.)....just don't let anyone else do the measuring out! ;D
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Errr, sorry to go off topic, but whats happening about the barn ?
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This is priceless. How come I missed it? What's happening back at the barn?
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Slug_killer,
just what I was wondering!
???
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I've been reading this and pi**ing myself laughing..
right, back to the subject, all done now, not in my hands any more..there's some sort of notice up there now, I'm going to try to read it tomorrow..I'll let you know ;D
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Everything in moderation I say .......... well not everything perhaps, but you do need to check out your own poison.
manic, if the notice says £20/1oz, grab me some will you. I'll pay postage. :P
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I'll go with a sack ;D
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Oh quick read it, it is driving me nuts.
What can it say.
The mind boggles with ideas.
If it is Shergar by the way, can we sell the 'oss muck on e bay.
XX Jeannine
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Is that cheap??? ;D ;)
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Everything in moderation I say .......... well not everything perhaps, but you do need to check out your own poison.
manic, if the notice says £20/1oz, grab me some will you. I'll pay postage. :P
I'll make it into cakes, no, not sheargar's muck, jeannine..and I'll sell them on e bay, make a fortune, what would you call them
muzzy cakes ? ;D
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what a tease you are manic >:( >:(
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Barn cakes
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What you gonna do, if you go and read the notice and it says... If you are reading this you are too close!!!
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If you are reading this notice,you will notice, that this notice,is not worth noticing.
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It says : For all you nosy and over imaginative buggers on A4A there is nothing in this shed except us chickens. ;D ;D ;D
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Hey maaaaaaaaaaan,
The baaaaaaaaarn is just where us sheep hang out. Its baaaaaaaaarlliant - bleating heaven.
For the last 8 years, 3 months each summer 11 ewes and 3 rams all hunker down in this here shed for a rave and to bleat at each other .
On Fridays this white van turns up, drops off some grass and some barrels of sheepdip and then drags one us away for slaughtering, however there's a rumor in the herd that 4 young rams will be joining us this week.
I get bleated at 'cause my farmer marked my coat with some red dye. He told me "Its only a trace - DEAL WITH IT."
Hey, Manic, no peeking, you'll get us all evicted - but if your passing, we could do with some more fags and sheepdip. On second thoughts, there are already too many fags in here already !
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Your farmer marked you with red dye?!!!!! Is that legal? ???
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right, the sign says these buildings are dangerous and there's a chain holding the gates locked..I haven't seen them since last week and i phoned to give the details to the police the same day..so, ???
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after all those fertile imaginations running riot, how disappointing ... perhaps we should have a competition for the best nonsense notice and stick it next to the official one
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Dangerous, eh? Behind locked gates?
Manics, whatever you do -
DO NOT FEED THE BUILDINGS!!
:o
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It could be another big brother house with new contestants waiting to go in the main house next friday. ;D ;D ;D
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Kev!! nice hair dude! :o :o :o :o
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Don't know where the photo come from or who the hell it is. ??? :o :o ::) ;D ;D ;D
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Yeh o.k. I believe you.
Manics, any update on the barn of mystery?
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no, not been for the last 3 days, getting everything ready for hospital, making sure the house is ok, baking so's ray can eat, shopping 'cos i'll be laid up for a few weeks, then today's ray's 60th so we've been out all day..it'll be end of next week before i can go and ray can't check when he goes 'cos he's driving ;D
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Manics you're a right tease! :D When's hospital? Hope it all goes well for you.
Hugs
Anne
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scan tomorrow, 11am, ring up 2pm, if there's still a bed, in at 3pm, op friday..depending what they find on the scan, should only be 2 to 3 days in hospital, night night, folks, early to bed, feeling sick and worrying a bit now..will see you all when I'm back :)
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Good luck!
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Good luck sweetheart. Try to stay calm. Worrying won't make it better. Let us know how it goes.
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Only just got in from my Wed evening natter with a friend. Hope I catch you to say Good Luck Manic, will be thinking of you. Take care
Lorna xxxxx
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Thinking of you Manic - it's 10.14am so guessing you are probably on your way. All the best and DON'T worry. Happy Birthday to Ray on his 60th. Love Em x
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Good luck girl and happy birthday Ray. ;D ;D ;D
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Just seen your York museum shots - and I am too young :-)
How are we doing on the barn ? :-)
Riffster
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there's been a blue people carrier there a few times not at the barn, parked lower down the track..but no-one in a white van, maybe I'm not there at the right time, hopefully, the local 'community' police are keeping their eyes peeled, it's really annoying, they used to be there at least 4 times a week !! ;D
Just seen your York museum shots - and I am too young :-)
Riffster
never mind, I bet you know someone who does remember them