It is the crack of dawn and theAGM is in an hour

[Red Rackham]

It is an odd thing about the Yanks. Lovely people, but they don't seem to do anything without endless bureaucracy and calling in the lawyers

You're right. Was that your candy wrapper I tripped over - I'll see you in court. And with dashcams and CCTV we're going the same way. I'm glad I grew up in a time when children could be children. That probably doesn't make much sense, suffice to say I'm glad my time on this rock started in the 1950's, and I mean that sincerely.

[Borchester]

All associations are a pain in the arse, I remember when we lived in the states we had a home owners association, we had to ask permission to put a garden fence up. I even had to tell them what colour it was going to be.

It is an odd thing about the Yanks. Lovely people, but they don't seem to do anything without endless bureaucracy and calling in the lawyers

[Borchester]

When my father had an allotment back in the late 1940s-1960s all that was involved was a "peppercorn" rent to the landowner. No committee involved.

My rent is only £140 for a double allotment which is not much of anything in return for the amount of food and fun we get from it. And the committee are useful for the various bits and bobs that need sorting out. Unfortunately, like most committees, the members are only there because no one else wants the job.

I told one of them to F off, which was ungallant, but I thought that I deserved a small treat

[papasmurf]

12.30 pm on a Sunday morning and I have to drag myself off to hear the dreary bastard on the allotment committee drone on about whatever bollocks turns them on. I could not give a sod about most of it but reckon that I should show my face.

I can't even catch up on my sleep because now that I am old and decrepit they put me in the front row.

Even so, I will creak off.

The things I do for a few pounds of apples and a spud or two

When my father had an allotment back in the late 1940s-1960s all that was involved was a "peppercorn" rent to the landowner. No committee involved.

[Nick]

12.30 pm on a Sunday morning and I have to drag myself off to hear the dreary bastard on the allotment committee drone on about whatever bollocks turns them on. I could not give a sod about most of it but reckon that I should show my face.

I can't even catch up on my sleep because now that I am old and decrepit they put me in the front row.

Even so, I will creak off.

The things I do for a few pounds of apples and a spud or two

All associations are a pain in the arse, I remember when we lived in the states we had a home owners association, we had to ask permission to put a garden fence up. I even had to tell them what colour it was going to be. 

[Borchester]

12.30 pm on a Sunday morning and I have to drag myself off to hear the dreary bastard on the allotment committee drone on about whatever bollocks turns them on. I could not give a sod about most of it but reckon that I should show my face.

I can't even catch up on my sleep because now that I am old and decrepit they put me in the front row.

Even so, I will creak off.

The things I do for a few pounds of apples and a spud or two