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Todays tandem ride was slightly spoilt at the end.
Picure the scene: We leave the local canal and heading home up a well used lane. At the start of the lane there's a footpath.
Over the wall I spot some children picking daffodils in the steep field next to the footpath and politely ask would they mind not picking the flowers as they are for everyone to enjoy. These children haven't just picked a few, they have a whole armful each.
An adult voice a good few metres away tells me to 'f' off.
I get off the tandem and walk over to her, saying that's not a good thing for young children to hear!
Woman: I've lived here 38 years, all me life and those flowers are wild.
Me: It would be better if you left them for everyone to enjoy.
Woman: Get back on your bloody bike.
Me: I don't think you're setting a good example to your children speaking like this.
Woman, gets up and storms off and shouts to me 'gerrra life'.
Me: Got one thanks.
Yes, as a small child I too picked wild flowers, however my grandfather explained that it's against the country code and to leave them for everyone to enjoy.
Those daffodils have gone now for another year and will probably only last a couple of days in water at home, whereas if left they'll be there for all to enjoy for a couple of weeks.
Death is too good for some people. String the buggers up.
gets up and storms off and shouts to me 'gerrra life'.
Was it Cilla Black?
I've lived here 38 years, all me life and those flowers are wild.
Wild! I bet they were livid.
< apologies to NTNOCN 🙂 >
2/10
Your argument was far too logical, with not enough swearing, capitals or exclamation marks.
Must try harder 😉
Crime of the century.
We're OOp Northe jon1973, it the way around here.
Get some buddlia (Sp?) seeds. Scatter them all around her house. Leave it a few years. Watch her house fall down surrounded by butterflys and pretty purple and white flowers.
Nature war!
< apologies to NTNOCN >
Respect to Gerald.
[url= http://www.thewildflowersociety.com/wfs_new_pages/1f_code_of_conduct.htm ]Some sort of code.[/url]
Crime of the century.
Bit early to call, no? Still got 88 years to go. In that time, someone could not shut a gate properly.
write to your mp, and maybe the daily mail.
Jamie I really shudder to think that could happen and live in fear of someone upsetting some sheep.
Jamie I really shudder to think that could happen and live in fear of someone upsetting some sheep.
Ooh ooh! I saw some sheep today. 😀
Some people shouldn't be allowed to breed!
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils
[s]Jon1973[/s] Wordsworth
OK. Let's stop taking the piss now.
Shouldn't common sense prevail? A couple of bunches of daffodils taken from the millions dotted around the countryside is hardly worthy of mentioning, is it? Gobshite could have been a little less gobshitey, but come on?
Yeah I just googled that too 😀
Reading it though, I can't really why the poem's so popular, as it's pretty rubbish after the first line.
don simon - MemberOK. Let's stop taking the piss now.
Shouldn't common sense prevail? A couple of bunches of daffodils taken from the millions doted around the countryside is hardly worthy of mentioning, is it? Gobshite could have been a little less gobshitey, but come on?
This. Times a million. FFS.
Damn. I was going to try and pass that off as one of my own.
Jamie I really shudder to think that could happen and live in fear of someone upsetting some sheep.
I'm scared. Hold me!
With the OP on this
Leave them there
Jamie are you talking to us or the sheep?
Not anymore (wipes tear from eye.)jon1973 - MemberI wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils
Only 2/10 blimey I am having a bad day.
However was made up earlier on the ride when we spotted a Roe deer (rare around these parts) running away. It must have heard the screaming woman on the back of tandem descending at speed.
Jamie are you talking to us or the sheep?
I take it where I can find it, JY.
Someone report TJ to the mods for having more than one username.
And I'm with kids. * to all the busy bodies who stifle the innocent play of children. If they're older, thell them off all you want. If they're little, though, their 'armfuls' are hardly going to make a difference to a country full of them.
If I had have been there, I would have happily told the OP where to go.
In the countryside code, it states -
"If you need to pick a daffodil, please leave a banana skin in it's place. From a distance they can look the same"
Did you ask them what they were going to do with them? Might have been collecting them up to cheer up the old folks home or the like.
Anyway, daffodils are piggin' ugly flowers.
Take nothing but photos. leave nothing but footprints
Picking wild flowers is a crime I believe and certainly bang out of order
Picking flowers is a f*****g crime? The law can bite me.
Mother's Day next week.
The country could run out of flowers at this rate.
Best if the kids buy some of those overpriced, imported ones.
Picking wild flowers is a crime
TJ earlier today
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I'm with the OP, but then selfishness of this sort really gets my goat. I bet they don't even recycle.
Picking wild flowers is a crime I believe and certainly bang out of order
Show me the law and how it relates to picking the common daffodil?
[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/mar/16/rules-picking-wild-flowers ]Without going into too much detail, but you get the idea, not illegal.[/url]
I could understand the issue of picking a wild flower if it was a rare orchid or something similar but we're hardly short of Daffs are we?
The gobshite attitude is something else though.
(waits for TJ to come up with evidence that they'll be extinct within 5 yrs)
Saxonrider - I asked the children (aged about 8/9 and 10) politely to leave them for everyone.
As a child I didn't know this until an adult explained to me.
Would you really tell an adult in front of your children to 'F' off, charming I'm sure.
Obviously the chances are that there'll be a few people like the woman the OP met on this forum, selfish halfwits.
Would you really tell an adult in front of your children to 'F' off, charming I'm sure.
Its better if they learn not to talk to strangers.
Your actions created the situation for them to "learn by example".
Usually best not to approach other's children, reactions can be unpredictable at best.
Picking wild flowers is a crime I believe and certainly bang out of order
Don't worry they'll grow back 🙂
Obviously the chances are that there'll be a few people like the woman the OP met on this forum, selfish halfwits.
But at least their mums will have some nice Daffs next Sunday 😀
It's not a crime to pick wild flowers, digging them up is.
Yes Fing infront of kids is a bit strong but I'd probably asked you to move on if you'd had a go at my kids for picking flowers. I teach them it's ok to pick a few but not boat loads. Daffs are almost fair game unless there part of a display, there's thousands of the buggers now. You see them in waste ground, industrial estates and all over.
saying that's not a good thing for young children to hear!
think you probably lost contact at that point
It's not a crime to pick wild flowers, digging them up is.
I thought you just need the permission of the landowner?
edit
Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981, which covers Britain, it is illegal to uproot any wild plant without permission from the landowner or occupier.
Although, if it's owned by the local authority, I doubt they'd give you permission, so it amounts to the same thing.
Isn't the official legal position on this one of not affecting anyone else and if the perpetrators consider it to be in the interest of their own safety (that they don't get leathered for not giving mother's day flowers or jumping a red light), then it's ok to break the rules?
Yup uproot that's not picking.
Taking from a local park or display is a bit much but picking from some growing wild is fine in moderation, least I think it is.