The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Roxy on September 15, 2014, 04:21:13 pm
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My friend is fuming. She picked a big dish full of Victoria plums from her fenced orchard in the corner of the field the other day. A couple of days later she went to get the plums off both trees. A heavy crop this year. Someone had beaten her to it. Both trees empty, not one single plum left. Someone had shaken the tree and then filled their basket. There is a footpath in the corner of the field, and someone had been keeping an eye on the plums .....
While on the subject of theft. The haulage yard where my husband works has had the diesel taken from every truck this week. A few hundred pounds to fill those big tanks up again.
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Time you were independent, Roxy :roflanim: - to improve economic levels! Folk struggling to survive i reckon. :'(
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If the orchard didn't have any house nearby and maybe looked a bit abandoned/wild, I would have been in like a shot too and harvested plums...
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They couldn't pretend they thought the diesel was abandoned though. I thought modern vehicles had something to stop anyone from syphoning off fuel?
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Orchard is alongside the house, and there are ponies in the field - its a local person, and they do have a suspicion of who it is.
As to the diesel - I am not very technical on these things, but it seems the tanks had a lock on, which quite often the thief will break off. Nowadays, they can get in another way, and syphon the fuel away with an electric pump. Must have been a few lads to carry the heavy drums. A while ago a lorry driver arrived in the early hours of the morning, and caught some men red handed. They drove away so fast, they forgot to close the side door on their van, and all the tubs fell out. So no fuel!!
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Sign of the times ! Aint gonna get any better :(
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Sign of the times ! Aint gonna get any better
It will up here :excited:
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Sign of the times ! Aint gonna get any better
It will up here :excited:
:thumbsup:
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I think it's funny where to draw the line with whats theft and what's not. Used to go blackberrying with parents on a Sunday afternoon walk. But now I feel hard done by if someone's taken the brambles, raspberries, picked the flowers or lifted logs from the field margins and end of the lane.
Just because it's not next to a house doesn't mean it's not owned and wanted. But then if it's not bolted down it seems it's fair game..?
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I think someone has been at my plums/apples too - I am not SURE any have gone, but the gate was tied up completely differently - I just hope that is someone has been in, the reason they didn't take many was that they got a HUGE fright at the sudden appearance of Large Black pigs hoping for an ear scratch - the sows would look quite intimidating if you weren't expecting them!
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Wish we had a like button, the vision of pigs appearing while kids are scrumping raised a laugh! :roflanim:
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Sign of the times ! Aint gonna get any better
It will up here :excited:
HOW?
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Sign of the times ! Aint gonna get any better
It will up here :excited:
HOW?
I'd like to know that too!
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:idea: Independence will fix everything?
Very Exciting times :thumbsup:
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:thumbsup: :excited:
:idea: Independence will fix everything?
Very Exciting times :thumbsup:
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:thumbsup: :excited: :idea: Independence will fix everything?
Very Exciting times :thumbsup:
I'd love to discuss this but I don't want to get banned :stir: .
Back to stolen plums :innocent: . A bit of scrumping is one thing but wholesale theft if out of order >:( . At least your friend got one basketful, the wasps had all mine ::)
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I didn't want to make a (political) statement at all, just was puzzled as to the answer...
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I think someone has been at my plums/apples too - I am not SURE any have gone, but the gate was tied up completely differently - I just hope that is someone has been in, the reason they didn't take many was that they got a HUGE fright at the sudden appearance of Large Black pigs hoping for an ear scratch - the sows would look quite intimidating if you weren't expecting them!
:roflanim: :roflanim:
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I recently found one of our more distant neighbours helping himself to the blackberries off our road frontage hedge (just before we were going to do so) so I stuck my head over the hedge and asked him (politely) how he was getting on, and after a short conversation he duly disappeared. Still niggled by it a few days later I took him up a bag of damsons from our tree, just to make a point, and he promptly repaid me with a carrier bag full of carrots, parsnips, and swedes plus a pound of tomatoes out of his veg patch! Needless to say we parted on friendly terms.
Now I'm not renowned for being particularly diplomatic at times but I wish I'd thought of that before ;D Wonder if that'll work for the referendum?
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no they haven't... I'm still here ;)
( sorry to hear about your plums Roxy... the sheep and bad weather stole all of ours this year - 70 odd plum trees and we had not one, no plum wine - :raining: )
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;D Oh Plums ....shame all yours have gone. Everyone here seems to have plums in abundance (except the trees that were robbed that is). Will have to call you No Plums now ......
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;D Oh Plums ....shame all yours have gone. Everyone here seems to have plums in abundance (except the trees that were robbed that is). Will have to call you No Plums now ......
:roflanim: :roflanim:
Mine did well even if the main branch did snap. Lots in the freezer now.
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I had a carefully espaliered and neat apple tree in my fenced garden in south london.. and some tow-rags climbed in and took all the apples the night before i was going to pick them.
Again I wouldn't have minded one or two being scrumped but the lot was plain theft. here I;ve got everyhtig in abundance so if folk want to come blackberrying etc then I have no objection. But then we're so out of the way it probably won't happen.
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Sorry your apples went. Most people would not dream of going into the supermarket and walking out with a bag of apples, without paying. So why do they think they can help themselves to what is obviously someone's fruit. Do they think that as its a garden it is ok?!!
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My DIL helped herself to an apple from my tree and, although I obviously don't begrudge her an apple, I was a bit peeved that she didn't ask. Anyone else and I'd have been furious.
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Nothing is safe, in the past we have had veg stolen. Now have the plot up by the house so not easy to get to. I often used to think when the odd cabbage or some potatoes were taken that the person must be desperate but to take all the plums that's just mean.
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We went to view an empty house (owner away so being shown round by the agent) and whilst there someone we knew wandered into the garden to check the cherries to see if they were ripe. When we looked at her in a surprised manner she said "I'm not a thief, just a local." This is an English woman living in France, so perhaps fruit theft is a national pastime? When we were in England theft was commonplace, usually attributed to the neighbours. Unfortunately you can't lock vegetables and fruit trees away at night!