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- borez, on 07/01/2009, -4/+71There's always a waiting list for allotments, always some family who wants to grow their own food, poor dear wants to grow flowers, but hey... that's not what it's for luv. Sorry.
For those that don't know, an allotment is a small plot of land within a much larger plot of land that you rent from the local council for growing vegetables. They came of age in WW2 when food was rationed, very British, quite socialist but very quaint.
Example: http://blog.puppetgov.com/wp-content/2009/02/allot ...
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardenin ... - ousthouse, on 07/01/2009, -1/+63"she has been given a stay of execution until Wednesday."
Execution? The Brits don't mess around when it comes to vegetables. - thelastcivilian, on 07/01/2009, -12/+73FOLLOW THE RULES GRANDMA
- kukurio, on 07/01/2009, -5/+43Before anyone starts yelling "Big Government is telling people what plants to grow," note that the plot is publicly-owned, not privately-owned.
- jessemoya, on 07/01/2009, -4/+40I thought reading the article would explain to me wtf is going on. Somehow I fail to see how this is newsworthy or even the least bit interesting.
- Pyros7, on 07/01/2009, -6/+31Long story short, she's old but she didn't follow the rules so now they want to give her vegitable plot to someone else. But the media says we should all feel sorry and outraged for her because she's old and...well she's old...and old people should get whatever they want because...well did I mention she's old and you should be outraged by now?
Sorry lady, you're growing flowers and weeds on government property which is loaned to you, but someone else would like to use it to grow food to help feed themselves and their family (you know, like you did for decades). Yes, you're old, and you've had it forever but the people waiting in line will use that land to plant things that they can EAT, while you'll just let it grow over with pretty weeds because...well it's ALWAYS been YOURS darn it! And you're OLD, and you can't take care of it anymore and being old entitles you to whatever you want right!? - gigi52, on 07/01/2009, -3/+23Give her a break. She's 89. Somebody can have the plot shortly, I'm sure.
- JustinDM, on 07/01/2009, -4/+23***** jerks he's from India, at least he's trying. Why don't you reply in Hindi with perfect grammar?
- MrSparkle666, on 07/01/2009, -2/+18I agree with the council on this one. Why am I I'm supposed to feel sorry for an old lady who can't follow the rules? The plots are not supposed to be "pretty." They are for growing food. I would think she was owed a few warning letters to start growing vegetables before the council took away her plot (In all likelihood she probably did), but I don't think there is anything wrong with the council giving her plot to somebody else if she refuses to use the plot for growing food, like it was intended. Just because she has been lucky enough to have a plot outside her window for so many years doesn't mean it's "her" plot. She doesn't own it. How well tended she keeps it isn't the issue. There are other people who have been waiting in line for these plots for years, and they want to use them for growing food, as they were intended.
I don't buy her whole "I'm just an old lady, I'm a victim" story. I've lived and worked in retirement communities in Florida for long enough to know the games that 89 year old people can play. Just because they're old doesn't mean they don't have the mental capacity to understand simple rules. She knows what she is doing. She wants to grow flowers on her plot, and she thinks she's entitled to it, so she's going to get her way by playing the "victim old lady" card, and it's going to work.
Now I'm going to get buried because everyone will think I'm a heartless, unsympathetic bastard. - louiebaur, on 06/29/2009, -3/+18WTF??? "a shock and a worry"
- mksmothers, on 07/01/2009, -1/+1589?
I hope I'm still busy at her age. - inactive, on 07/01/2009, -1/+13Ah yes, allotments, the only barrier between survival and death by starvation. This old hag must be hung for taking food out of the mouths of starving children.
- mardraum, on 07/01/2009, -1/+13but she'll need another plot once she's dead. it's depressingly zero-sum.
- agentsrecord, on 07/01/2009, -1/+11I second that.
There isn't a whole lot of space in Britain. That's a public plot. If the isn't using it for what it's there for (growing food for your family) let someone else who needs it get their hands on it. - maz2331, on 07/01/2009, -1/+11The same thing would happen if she rented a private lot that had a "proper use" covenent in the lease.
- dtfinch, on 07/01/2009, -1/+11Just because something's legal, doesn't mean it's not stupid.
- manogamez, on 07/01/2009, -1/+10DIGG JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITE!
- magicalhobo, on 07/01/2009, -0/+9Just eat the flowers.. Then they can't say that it's not for food.
- RiotHeart, on 07/01/2009, -4/+13I didn't notice the reply button stopped working
oh wait... - gnoshme, on 07/01/2009, -1/+8What? Woman to have vegetable alotment taken away for not growing vegetables? Where is the logic? Next thing you know the council will take away peoples council houses if they raise pigs in them instead of living there.
- jacktiernan, on 07/01/2009, -0/+7How does that have anything to do with this story?
This isn't government being unreasonable or forceful, they are enforcing existing policies which are there to try to keep the allotments available to people with a genuine need to grow food for themselves or their family. - Zomgondo, on 07/01/2009, -2/+9Buried for not knowing what the ***** you're talking about.
- winkwinkler, on 07/01/2009, -0/+7The Brits have outlawed execution. Except for growing flowers in a veggie patch, of course.
- andoru, on 07/01/2009, -1/+8She should just plant some herbs between the other shrubs.
- ZenMojo, on 07/01/2009, -1/+7Except it is reason. The purpose of the land is to grow FOOD. She is growing DECORATION.
- asgardshill, on 07/01/2009, -1/+7Me, actually. I plant marigolds around my garden - they're a great natural bug repellent. Between those and the occasional dusting of diatomaceous earth to kill the snails, seeing a bug-bit veggie is a rarity for me.
- TBombadil, on 07/01/2009, -1/+7grow edible flowers as well. Problem solved.
- Topkill, on 07/01/2009, -1/+6No, he had it right, you don't argue with idiot trolls.
- theonlywizdum, on 07/01/2009, -2/+7The article said there was a waiting list, so i'm assuming that there are no other empty plots.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -1/+690% of what you see on the front page was paid for. Why would you single out Telegraph?
- BradMajors, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Fortunately, they missed the fruit she was growing.
- moduc, on 07/01/2009, -2/+6My story is a little bit different. I park a 1997 ford at my house, on concrete parking area. The car is not inspected or registered. It's not working, but look OK. I need time fixing it. The county came, asked me to remove the car, or have it inspected and registered. I got it to run and drive, but I didn't think it would pass inspection yet. However, the deadline came, and I didn't have time to sell it, so I had to junk it for $100. This is just the most ridiculous rule of this county. I have another car, and the state tells me I don't have to have the latest registration, as long as I don't drive it. But the county force me to have it inspected and registered. I ended up have it inspected, then sold it.
- jaaames, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Sounds like a threat. Get 'im, boys!
- Loki101, on 07/01/2009, -6/+10Sounds like some anal douchebag in the council to me.
+1 Lawful Stupid. - GCarden, on 07/01/2009, -2/+6The FBI? This is Great Britain!
Besides, she is having the plot taken away for not following rules. Government's land, government's rules. - Frostek, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4It's not *her* garden...
(Devil's advocate) - borez, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Hey, you'd be suprised, they're becoming trendy in London. Where I live there's an allotment patch with high security gates etc. full of hip young things hanging out growing their own veggies. My mate has a place he inherited from his dad down there and we go and sit all day doing nothing, I'm trying to get my own, but the waiting list is something like 15 years.
- waydee, on 07/01/2009, -1/+5Seems fair enough to me, allotments aren't for growing flowers.
- Eurynom0s, on 07/01/2009, -1/+5She's growing weed on government property?!?! No wonder she's in so much trouble!!!
- oddchimp, on 07/01/2009, -5/+9She's a TERRORIST!!!!!
- afruff23, on 07/01/2009, -2/+6Ageism is stupid. Rethink your comment.
- Leezus, on 07/01/2009, -1/+5whoa, you're like the bob ross of plants or something, asgard.
- JoeMondo, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3More like the plots are for a specific purpose - you can use them for that purpose or not at all.
- ZenMojo, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Maybe she's onto something. We could feed the whole world on posies and daffodils!
/s - Zomgondo, on 07/01/2009, -1/+4She's obviously one of Hell's Grannies... I wouldn't want to mess with her.
- MrSparkle666, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5Well that was ***** stupid.
- Frostek, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Because Digg submitters won't report anything else - it doesn't get the outraged comments...
- sephiroth965, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3The article doesn't actually say that there are plots that are overgrown; It just states that she says there are. Great journalism isn't it?
- lex0nyc, on 07/01/2009, -1/+4So it will be a swap.
- chockster, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5I'd love to know in what way "most Brits live like serfs"...
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