Chris Kaba

[Ashy]

I like it!

[muddy]

Luckily for us we didn't have that problem with kids BUT, we do get motor homes parking in front of the farms gates. Dunc gets really hacked off at them as he can't get the tractor into the fields, He's had quite a lot of rows with these people who refuse to use proper sites, as have all the other farmers and crofters in the area.
If they are parked up when I go out early to the pool, I nip back into the house and get a couple of slices of bread, tear it up nice and small, then chuck it up onto the roof of their van. As soon as it gets light and the gulls are awake they soon spot the bread, the campers then get a very loud wake up from the gulls as they have breakfast. The vans are nearly always gone when I get back from the pool.
Not very nice of me but it's better than a massive row with an angry farmer.

Where I  live nearly all the farm gates are blocked with big bales or tree trunks .
This is to stop Pie keys lamping in stolen cars .
In the past they have wrecked the gates and then driven all over the fields leaving tread marks on the sown fields and sometimes even badly injured wildlife .
However these are not people one would care to challenge as they have guns themselves .

[Mups]

Where I  live nearly all the farm gates are blocked with big bales or tree trunks .
This is to stop Pie keys lamping in stolen cars .
In the past they have wrecked the gates and then driven all over the fields leaving tread marks on the sown fields and sometimes even badly injured wildlife .
However these are not people one would care to challenge as they have guns themselves .

Yes, it's the same here too, Muddy.
The farmers use bales, tree trunks, or even concrete blocks sometimes.

In the village I lived  before I came here, the pikeys were out across the fields behind me most nights.
You could always see their headlights as they drove round the fields.
There was a gipsy site less than a mile away, so I presumed they came from there.

[Scrumpy]

Travellers !!!  Gone are the days when they just wanted to sell you some lucky heather..
  They might have nicked a gnome or two from your garden..
Today they nick the whole bloody lawn..

[Mups]

Travellers !!!  Gone are the days when they just wanted to sell you some lucky heather..
  They might have nicked a gnome or two from your garden..
Today they nick the whole bloody lawn..

You saying that reminded me of when I lived in a quiet village,  but unfortunately there was a travellers site on the outskirts of it too.

One day a gardening/tree man was pruning trees at one of the posh houses, then dragging the branches out to the front of the house to put them through his chipper.

He must have had a bit of a shock though, because after dragging one load out,  he found his chipping machine had vanished!  

[klondike]

You can tell when the pikeys are in your area

[JBR]

Travellers !!!  Gone are the days when they just wanted to sell you some lucky heather..
  They might have nicked a gnome or two from your garden..
Today they nick the whole bloody lawn..

Yes indeed.
There is little that we can do when they periodically set up camp in a park near us.  No point calling the police, as it seems that they have their hands full in dressing up in rainbow-colours and joining certain parades these days.

[dextrous63]

I noticed some caravans in the car park at B&Q in Trafford Park.  One cannot but wonder just how happy the store will be about leaving its bulk bags of sand etc outside.  Nor indeed just how happy the contractors will be, who are working on a major building development (flats, school) on the other side of the road from the car park.

[muddy]

You saying that reminded me of when I lived in a quiet village,  but unfortunately there was a travellers site on the outskirts of it too.

One day a gardening/tree man was pruning trees at one of the posh houses, then dragging the branches out to the front of the house to put them through his chipper.

He must have had a bit of a shock though, because after dragging one load out,  he found his chipping machine had vanished! 

My son has a tree surgery business  and he is absolutely paranoid about his chipper . Because they are incredibly  expensive ( upwards of £25k ) and they are prime targets for pie keys .
Pie keys follow tree surgeons about in order to steal their equipment ..
His men never leave stuff one the pavement and chain the chipper to the van if necessary or box it in .