What has this bad weather taught you?

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I will always order my christmas and new year food via the local food service here. They brought every single item that I ordered (£150 worth) in a land rover and pulled the stops out to deliver to everyone who ordered in our rural county. I have ordered with them ever since we moved here (july) as I wanted to support local producers but wow, what service. They have literally saved our christmas and I have the nicest food now safe in my fridge and freezer and under the stairs

A lot of the greens and salad veg are safely packed in lakeland green bags in the fridge, so come what may, we will have enough veg for a good 3 weeks

I am a very happy bunny

I have been sadly reading about the burglery, what lowlife. I saw objects being moved from next door (6 years ago) one dark night, when the owners were away so I phoned the police and they came quickly. I was so red faced when I was told that family members were moving things in but hey I phoned another time and in another place and as a result they caught a whole gang operating in the lake district, from manchester. I wouldn`t hesitate but there is a fine line between curtain twitching and neighbourhood watch and we can all get it wrong through no fault of our own.

Swampmonster

kittie wrote: »

I have been sadly reading about the burglery, what lowlife. I saw objects being moved from next door (6 years ago) one dark night, when the owners were away so I phoned the police and they came quickly. I was so red faced when I was told that family members were moving things in but hey I phoned another time and in another place and as a result they caught a whole gang operating in the lake district, from manchester. I wouldn`t hesitate but there is a fine line between curtain twitching and neighbourhood watch and we can all get it wrong through no fault of our own.

My brother did the same thing and called the police when he saw people moving things at a neighbours house when they were on holiday in france. Like you it turned out to be their relatives but when the neighbours returned they were extremly grateful somone cared enough to call them and did'nt just turn a blind eye.

pollys

We had our garage broken into just after Christmas one year, it is obvious children live here (trampoline in garden) and they tried to take the bikes, luckily I woke up and heard a noise looked out and they fled. Leaving a broken garage door, just days later they came back yet again they were disturbed. After that we got a new garage door and had the garage alamed, thankfully it hasn't happened since. It is very upsetting and my children were very unsettled. The Police came round and had a chat with them saying they would be driving round at night and keep an eye on our house which reassured them.

So sorry to hear this has happened

Pollys xx

maryb

alice-mary wrote: »

booter wrote: »

Thanks mrs s - they got all their electricals - laptop, pc, digital cameras (with memory cards) and they took all the wrapped pressies from under the tree. Her jewellery wasn't taken (amazingly). The police seem to be of the same opinion - druggies. "There but for the grace of god" was the exact words I used when I heard. TBH it's my worst nightmare. The neighbour's now worried about coming home to an empty house now, so for what it's worth, I've told her to knock my door if she's at all worried, and I'll go in with her. Let's hope lightening doesn't strike twice (although the local scum are probably well aware that they've already been done).

I am sad to read about this and it brought to mind some stories I heard a couple of years ago..... Having been burgled, a few families claimed for their losses on their insurance policies and managed to replace most of the lost items BUT a couple of months later, they were all burgled again! The burglers must have waited just the right amount of time for their victims to think "it won't happen again" and then struck again. Please, everybody out there, don't take your security for granted!

Alice
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This is exactly what happened to us - about 4 months later. Funnily enough they didn't take exactly the same things which had obviously been replaced with new but the police thought that someone had shared information. The worst of it was, we were on holiday and had taken a taxi to the airport so left the car keys at home - which they found and used the car to transport things

Looking back it had its funny moments - like when we got back from the airport and stood on the doorstep having paid off the taxi. I looked at DH and said 'Where's the car?' and I could see in his face that we were both thinking 'OMG we didn't leave it at the airport , did we?' Sadly not. When we got inside and realised what had happened we went round saying 'oh they took this..and that' etc. then we got to the kitchen and there was an almost empty bottle of squash standing by the sink. Our two year old's face crumpled as she said 'Oh they dranked all the Ribena' - she was so upset, poor lamb

Fruball

Apparently, because they know everything will have been replaced with new, they come back. It makes me so damn mad.

My Dads shed was broken into recently, along with loads of others in their street. With Dad in hospital it upsets me to think my SM will be worried about being there alone... Thankfully she isn't paranoid (unlike me) and she is fairly pragmatic about it... But it can't be nice.

Primrose

Talking about security, everybody please be aware of a burglary ruse which is happening a lot round our way at the moment to people who have UPVC front doors. They're just flicking the handle up at night and when the house is unoccupied, rather than double locking it with a key. If the door isn't double locked with a key, burglars are flicking a device through the letter box which can simply pull the handle down and unlock the door. A lot of people have had a ruined Christmas this year because of this and have lost laptops, handbags, wallets, & car & house keys, which means unless you go to the trouble and expense of replacing car and house keys, you're very vulnerable for them to make a return visit at their convenience.

Fruball

Primrose wrote: »

Talking about security, everybody please be aware of a burglary ruse which is happening a lot round our way at the moment to people who have UPVC front doors. They're just flicking the handle up at night and when the house is unoccupied, rather than double locking it with a key. If the door isn't double locked with a key, burglars are flicking a device through the letter box which can simply pull the handle down and unlock the door. A lot of people have had a ruined Christmas this year because of this and have lost laptops, handbags, wallets, & car & house keys, which means unless you go to the trouble and expense of replacing car and house keys, you're very vulnerable for them to make a return visit at their convenience.

I used to do that but I always lock it now and, taking a tip from my friend who used to live in SA (eek, dangerous) she hangs a pot or something from the door handle every night at front and back doors. In the event of anyone opening it, the crash would wake them up.

I have a broom leaning on my front door atm, and in the kitchen, even better, an ironing board leans on the door which would make loads of noise.

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I have learnt to order presents early

lol, sitting here, no post yet again and looking at layers of snow with my laptop on my knee and browsing here and there. I have ordered slankets at £12 for my 3 adult children and their spouses and they`ll be for next year. Also a couple of mood lights as house warming presents at a 60% reduction. I am pretty pleased with myself tbh

diddly74

We live at the end of a cul-de-sac, but have a walkway running along the side of our house. We ALWAYS lock the front and back door at night, and neither the kids or I go to the door at night - only hubby answers it. I do however rarely lock my car - I always forget but then if someone wants to take my rust bucket they can!!!! We have 2 staffys who sleep in the garage and where that isn't necessarily very useful if someone breaks in while we are asleep they soon let us know and anyone who comes near the house at night that they are there and would like to rip legs off! [ripping legs off = read lick people to death]

Primrose

Frugal wrote: »

I used to do that but I always lock it now and, taking a tip from my friend who used to live in SA (eek, dangerous) she hangs a pot or something from the door handle every night at front and back doors. In the event of anyone opening it, the crash would wake them up.

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Tying together a bunch of empty Coca Cola or beer tins together on a loop of string would also make quite a noise. If you only half pull the lid off you can thread the string through the convenient Ring Pull bit.