I'm glad your story had a good outcome @PurpleRose, would have been a shame if the statue was gone forever. You kind of feel like you have to stay one step ahead of the thieves all the time and can't have anything nice around you. I've literally just been out and put the wheel barrow in the garage now, it was in a shed full of grass clippings but hearing your story made me think they would probably take that too....
I never thought about wheel barrows aiding the people who take things but I dont have a criminal mind. In hindsight, it makes perfect sense to use one
When we lived in a place called Lower Gornal I had two really heavy stone pots either side of the front door with bay trees in. One morning when we got up one of the pots had been dragged half way down the drive. It must have been so heavy that the potential thieves abandoned it. We retrieved it, emptied the pots and bolted them to the slabs. We then replanted the bays. If anyone else tried to move them we never knew, but they must have seriously strained something in the attempt. We also had a Christmas wreath nicked off the front door at that address. Mind you we were in a corner house and a lot of people used to cut through our road on the way home from the pub. We had two dogs at the time but they never made a sound.
On the other hand...I was sitting down the other day and was amused by a lady sniffing my tulips in the front garden. Oh and she had an impromptu photo shoot with them too. Amazingly enough the two pots I've had planted have been there for two years...London isn't as bad as people think 😉
Many years ago friends of my parents had over 100 conifers, which had just been planted to form a boundary screen, stolen overnight. They had only been planted a matter of days earlier.
So sad. My mum gave up with her front door years ago. Luckily it’s just a narrow strip. Unfortunately she also had to give up milk deliveries as they went missing more often than not!
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
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