Paul B3... regarding the more sanctimonius members, you could always ask them if they ever pay tradesmen 'cash in hand'... I suspect we know the answer...
As we're all about to go to hell in a handcart, with ww3... nicking a few small plants from a currently unoccupied garden, and claiming a hanging offence, is rather trivial if you ask me..
I’m not being funny but these plants are not being rescued. For a start we don’t even know if they are in danger, for all the OP knows whoever owns the house now may be a pant lover. The purchaser might be a plant lover. These plants are unusual, but they’re available to purchase online.
Plants don’t have feelings. Yes it might be a shame if they are dug up and binned, but it’s not doing some great deed to take them. There is no great sentimentality attached to them, he already stated he didn’t know the lady who grew them and her husband didn’t know what they were. He obviously just fancies them in his own garden.
Either steal them, buy your own, or ask permission to take them, but don’t pretend it’s anything other than what it is and try and take the moral high ground when criticised for it.
Paul B3... regarding the more sanctimonius members, you could always ask them if they ever pay tradesmen 'cash in hand'... I suspect we know the answer...
As we're all about to go to hell in a handcart, with ww3... nicking a few small plants from a currently unoccupied garden, and claiming a hanging offence, is rather trivial if you ask me..
I’m sure we all have, but then I doubt we asked the question on a forum whether or not it was the right thing to do then took umbridge when told it wasn’t
I love that those who abide by the law are deemed "sanctimonious" as if somehow they're doing something to be criticised. Clearly it's true what they say " honour amongst thieves"
Paul, if these plants are so very desirable, I wonder why you haven't already got some of your own? Did they only become desirable when you saw the chance of getting them for nothing?
Paying a tradesman in cash is not illegal, any more than it is illegal to pay a taxi driver/dentist or shopkeeper in cash ... a tradesman/taxi driver/dentist or shopkeeper not declaring all his income is illegal.
I'm not being sanctimonius ... Paul asked if he was 'robbing the dead' ... I've given my view and explained why I hold that view.
As for 'going to hell in a handcart' ... that happens when society breaks down and people ignore legal and moral codes.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I already have the single flowered form of Sanguinaria , and a large clump of Jeffersonia diphylla (both paid for years ago)(!!) . As for getting them for nothing , the only way I could get proper permission is maybe through a medium ! Re:- WW 3 , I think it was Einstein who quoted something like :-" I cannot imagine what kind of weapons will be used in WW3 , but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones" ; food for thought there .
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Thankyou for your positive feedback Purplerain .
I await now with a somewhat detatched but clinical interest for more enlightening answers .
As we're all about to go to hell in a handcart, with ww3... nicking a few small plants from a currently unoccupied garden, and claiming a hanging offence, is rather trivial if you ask me..
Plants don’t have feelings. Yes it might be a shame if they are dug up and binned, but it’s not doing some great deed to take them. There is no great sentimentality attached to them, he already stated he didn’t know the lady who grew them and her husband didn’t know what they were. He obviously just fancies them in his own garden.
Either steal them, buy your own, or ask permission to take them, but don’t pretend it’s anything other than what it is and try and take the moral high ground when criticised for it.
Clearly it's true what they say " honour amongst thieves"
£1 is ok., but £100 is a crime.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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I'm not being sanctimonius ... Paul asked if he was 'robbing the dead' ... I've given my view and explained why I hold that view.
As for 'going to hell in a handcart' ... that happens when society breaks down and people ignore legal and moral codes.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As for getting them for nothing , the only way I could get proper permission is maybe through a medium !
Re:- WW 3 , I think it was Einstein who quoted something like :-" I cannot imagine what kind of weapons will be used in WW3 , but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones" ; food for thought there .