"Breton" > wrote in message
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On Jun 18, 4:10 pm, "Exrxes News Network" > wrote:
> The recent BBC News report about the problems of illegal fruit
> consumption,
> faced by Britain's strawberry growers, came as no surprise to Grimmclogge
> farmer, Seth Rootkill, or subsidy Seth' as he is known by clerks in the
> Ministry Of Agriculture Fisheries & Food. (writes ENN farming
> correspondent, Ivor Gottergrudge)
>
> Commenting on the news that a Cambridgeshire grower has been forced to
> abandon his 'Pick Your Own' strawberry business dues to the vast tonnage
> of
> fruit being eaten and not paid for by families out for the day (some of
> whom
> began to bring bowls of cream to dip their illicit berries into (A PIECE
> OF FICTION INSERTED BY PHIL INTO THE ORIGINAL STORY)) <<<


I take some offence at being called a liar, Nicholas!! - the reference to
families taking their own cream in which to dip their illicit strawberries
was, I assure you, part of the BBC news story, as told to them by the
disgruntled owner of the missing strawberries, the ironically names, Mr
Spight (I kid you not )

(from the BBC News website)


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'A fruit farm has stopped doing "pick your own" strawberries because
customers are eating too much of the fruit without paying.

Hacker's Fruit Farm, near Cambridge, had offered pickers the chance to
select their own strawberries for the last 40 years.

Mark Spight, who runs the farm, said he was annoyed at the number of people
not paying for the strawberries.

One family were caught dipping the berries in cream as they picked them.

Mr Spight said he used to get angry watching people gorging themselves then
only taking a handful of fruit to be paid for.

He said some people were eating up to £15 worth of strawberries and would
come to the checkout covered in juice'


End Repost

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So, will you apologise now, Nicholas - or will you wait until I turn the
screw a bit?

'sup to you


>. For those not acquainted with Phil's "writings" (to use a
generous term) there was no element of homosexuality in the story.

Phil, I am sure you will be interested in knowing that while I was in
London last week I met HRH The Duke of York.<<


I hope you washed your hand as soon as possible afterwards