So I spent the afternoon digging another new bed on my newish lottie, ready for the onion sets I brought back from Cornwall last week.
Dug on through the rain and the thunder, finished.
Went to get the onion sets. Now, I don't have a shed yet since I've only had the plot about 6 weeks, so I keep things in a plastic greenhouse. I'm pretty sure that the onion sets were in there last week....they certainly aren't at home, or in the car.
But today, no onion sets.
Also no rake.
I'm particularly upset as ours is a very secure site, so it must be someone from the site who has taken them :( Why do people do that kind of thing???
I thought that it was only footballers that spat - count me in!!
Well said Tim. It really does makeyou want to stamp your feet doesn't it?
Hi suzylou
Sorry to hear that you have a thief on site .
Keep a look out for the rake.
sad to hear that, my allotment is the same, things go missing :(
Have a look around see if anyone has planted new onions :D you never know they might just of planted them in their garden.
it's really disheartening when things get nicked. I've been lucky so far but.... a lovely row of cabbages was happily growing under netting at one of the plots on our site, when the guy went to water them and renew slug pellets he discovered someone had cut out and stolen all the hearts and left all the outer leaves!! once he stopped swearing we couldn't stop laughing, .....wonder how long they'd been missing!! some people must be desperate.
What gets me is that whoever it was must have walked the full length of my plot and had a dig about in the greenhouse just on the offchance! Not even a grab-and-run but more of a "I'm going to go and see if there's anything to nick here".
I realised in the middleof the night that I'm short a spade too.
Grrrrr.
That is appalling suzylou! What a mean rotten low down thing to do, to steal someones produce and tools. After all the time and effort it takes to grow things, for this to happen; your blood must be boiling over with anger and frustrating. >:( busy_lizzie
It's just outrageous that people steal like this. Keep your chin up.
On my site someone actually nicked piles of horse manure I had piled up in a compost heap. To show that they are really muppets they then went and scattered it over half their plot before starting to dig it in.
When I challenged them, their answer was that as I hadn't put anything over the pile, which was in a timber enclosure 2m x 1.5m, they thought it was there for anyone.
Un-fxxxing believable.
Sorry to hear that Suzylou - do you have a committee that you could mention it to? At least then an eye could be kept open in case, and the person dealt with (which would presumably mean at the very least being expelled from the allotment)
You wouldn't believe the amount of stuff I had stolen by the former Association secretary and his wife. It's not often so systematic, but there's always a bit of it, unfortunately. The best defence is a stout thorn hedge and a strong gate; if they can't see what's there, and they're likely to have a painful experience attempting to explore, they won't normally bother.
I have a confession :)
Remember how I couldn't quite believe that someone on the lottie site would actually nick a bag of onion sets?
I found them last night, in a bag I hadn't unpacked since my visit home.
Whoops! ::)
I'm a bit embarassed, but also very excited that I'm going to have so many onions, and pleased that I don't have to worry so much about theft on the site!
(oh, and the spade and rake had been borrowed by the neighbours!)
Well done for confessing, you could quite easily have kept quiet.
Well I figured that having destroyed everyone's faith in human nature, I ought to restore it ;D
Plus, if I didn't tell you, hubby was threatening to get an A4A account and "out" me :>
That is reassuring to hear, to feel that there is a thief amongst you is so terrible. I am glad it has come good in the end.
Derekthefox :D
Suzylou, I am really glad it has all worked out right for you and that you can carry on lottying without the stress of worrying about what might go missing. Enjoy your onions.
I do that kind of thing all the time. I've given up thinking things are stolen any more as it's nearly always me putting them somewhere stupid. I found my housekeys under the mattress the other day. What worries me is that I thought to look there. :)
To be honest, I thought I MUST have just put them somewhere...but I looked EVERYWHERE or so I thought :>
How on earth did you get your keys under the mattress? I'm bad, but that's rediculous!
We were given some Zinc fencing pannels yesterday. They were not there this morning. But we know who nicked them as they are now in the plot next to us up the side of the guys shed. He thought we wouldn't see them. GRRRR !!!
We are thinking of doing a midnight raid and getting them back ;D
Either that Jill (joji), or take photos and challenge the culprit in front of your allotment committee. I presume you could vouch for the origin of the panels ...
I have no time for people like this, they get the full venom of my aggressive side when this happens.
Derekthefox :D
That's just nuts! I wouldn't even do it at midnight, I'd just breeze over and take them!
A guy on my site swears that the flagpole up the side of someone elses' shed was nicked from him, only he can't steal it back because it's been concreted into the ground!
Suzylou, I can only assume that it seemed like a safe place at the time.
Joji, don't just take them back, make it very obvious that you have. Leave a smiley face or a thank-you note. There's an outside possibility that your neighbour genuinely thought the stuff was abandoned (yeah, right). If you pretend that this is the case while being terribly polite (but firm) then it shouldn't happen again and you might be able to build a relationship with him.
I'm not saying give in for a second, but you might have him for a neighbour for many years, so worth building a relationship as well as laying ground rules.
Oh, and Suzylou, I regularly leave my bike in inexplicable places as well. Once I found it three days later locked to somebody's front gate.
Loll Bubster.
We do have a spare can of pink wood paint lol His shed looks like it could do with a new coat. ( Thinks evil thoughts ) lol
To everyone else his plot is not quite as big as ours but he has his spies and his site is like ours fencing all round. So once it is dark would be the best time to do it as we have a shed to put it in.There is also a hole in the fencing that splits our from his so will be easy to get into. ;)
Quote from: Derekthefox on September 29, 2005, 15:32:44
Either that Jill (joji), or take photos and challenge the culprit in front of your allotment committee. I presume you could vouch for the origin of the panels ...
I have no time for people like this, they get the full venom of my aggressive side when this happens.
Derekthefox :D
Nether of us are members of the local committee yet. He won't join and we are just about to. :)
I think it must be a great  relief to have found them  Suzy, not just because of the loss but it always leaves you with a horrible feeling when anything like that happens and does degrade your faith in human nature.  So great news that you haven't got a thief nearby after all.  "All's well that ends well"  :) busy_lizzie
Joji, my best friend once got dumped and she went home to see her mum and her nan and told the story. Her nan was outraged on her behalf and couldn't think of a bad enough punishment for her ex. Ended up saying "Oooh. I hope someone (splutter) paints his house pink". It's been our favourite curse ever since. :)
Crumbs all this thieving is appalling >:(. I feel very lucky at my lottie. Although not totally secure (the "chav" contingent do sometimes come over the fence from the railway bank and do a bit of mischief) the plot next door is rented by a lady whose house overlooks the site and she is straight out if there is any trouble. She has made me feel really welcome and given me advice, strawberry plants and use of her greenhouse to store my tools. I would go mad if anyone nicked my gear, particularly a fellow allotment holder. :(
I have four uniform size double glazing panels...I originally had sixteen.
I see them each year on a neighbouring plot but I can't prove it...
Some plotholders do go 'walkabout' from time to time on other peoples plots when they are not there... WHY?
If they want to have a look around another plot what an opportunity for some socialising
Derek
Good luck getting onto the committee then Jill :D
Derekthefox :D
Quote from: Derek on September 30, 2005, 08:21:07
I have four uniform size double glazing panels...I originally had sixteen.
I see them each year on a neighbouring plot but I can't prove it...
Some plotholders do go 'walkabout' from time to time on other peoples plots when they are not there... WHY?
If they want to have a look around another plot what an opportunity for some socialising
Derek
I totally agree Derek, I don't know if it was my upbringing but I have never ever wandered on to someone else's plot unless they were there, I would feel I was tresspassing. :o
Only last week my lottie neighbour rang me to say someone had helped themselves to a few carrots on their plot and another lottie holder had spotted things had been moved on their plot also, so I went to inspect my patch and discovered someone had been in my (unlocked) shed, nothing taken. :-\
It turned out a lottie neighbour wanted to borrow my watering can and helped themselves to it, I now put the w/can on full view in my plastic greenhouse and lock the shed from now on. ::)
Thanks Derek
The lottie committee meets every 2 weeks so we have to wait now till a week next monday to go down and join.
We did get 4 of the pannels back last night and we painted his shed door pink if he asks if we saw or heard anything our :-X ;D. We will leave it a couple of days and try for the other 4. Leaving him with one.
Hee hee ;D
Joji we NEED photos ;)
Ha ha this is getting confusing now with two Dereks on the same thread!!!
You have permission to refer to me as the 'gay' one ok if it makes anyone feel better ... Not that I field for the other team ... but allegations have been made, and mud tends to stick ... but I am a cheerful chappie, so wont be insulted by use of the traditional dictionary definition. ;D ;D ;D (see the crime thread in the Shed)
Derekthefox :D
hurray for pink doors ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
good for you joji - would love to see neighbours face when he sees it :o :o :o
He got the police on to us! They came round and said that he was going to sue us for criminal damage. :o
We have explained that we had the sheets stolen from our plot and he wouldn't give them back. We phoned the friend who got them for us from his work and he told the police that the sheets were ours and ourfriend had got them for us. The police said to the bloke that because he had stolen our sheeting he was to give it all back and if he didn't like the colour of his shed he was to paint it himself ( he has now painted over it back to brown ) and if he took it any further or caused us any more trouble they would charge him. ;D
So we got all of our sheeting back and some extra as the police didn't belive that,that wasn't his either lol. The council have been informed too by the police.
It is great when the police know you have a couple of coppers in the family higher in rank that them ;D
Result! Nice one ;D
you're winding us up!!! the police? for a pink shed door? at least it went your way in the end!!! ;D
This is no wind up :( He is welsh we are English need I say more >:(
I had a similar situation; I was having trouble with persistent thefts from my plot, and when I warned the people off (it was the Association secretary and his wife) they went to the police, claiming that it was all their stuff that I'd stolen, then when that didn't work they went to the Council with the same story. Some of these people are totally shameless.
Hi joji
My dads welsh & my mum is English so ill sit on the fence about the difference. ;D
Quote from: TEL on October 01, 2005, 07:17:18
Hi joji
My dads welsh & my mum is English so ill sit on the fence about the difference. ;D
I'll join you TEL as I have a lovely Welsh sister-in-law :)
LOL...my dad's welsh too!!
Always been the funny side of the family though ;)