It’s been an extraordinary busy day
Made easier by some funny vignettes
The best was when I had to meet a huge extended family of a patient for the first time one of which commented quite loudly to another in an adjoining room “:He doesn’t look like a nurse , he looks like a Samoan rugby player!
Hey ho
I left work late, and didn’t get home until well after half nine and all I could think of was a cold beer ( I had one in the fridge) a good foot licking by Dorothy and a warm roaring fire.
Well two out of three ain’t bad
When I went out to the back shed..the one bordering on the lane behind bluebell ...the door was wide open and all of my remaining kiln fired wood ( some thirty logs or so) had been stolen
Hey ho....
Oh, a bit of nasty reality enters the land of Trelawnyd. Shame. (I mean the nasty wood stealer, not you the lookalike Samoan rugby player).
ReplyDeleteIt’s not always The Sound Of Music Here lol
DeleteChrist all bloody mighty! Stealing all of a hospice nurse's wood while they're at work! You cannot get much lower than that.
ReplyDeleteThere’s nothing worse than lost wood
DeleteI bet it's those bloody bastard nefarious f*****g scum-you have to tie everything f ing down x
ReplyDeleteFor their anniversary a friends husband bought her 2 lovely large bay trees for either side of their front door-he made big wooden planters-during the night a truck pulled up and dragged both away with a chain as they were very heavy(their front garden has a high hedge and so the lowlife must have been sniffing around) x
DeleteBut firewood?
DeleteIt's been nicked from an allotment shed around here too-it was being stored there ready to use-they have even took clothes from washing lines x
Deleteflis - how do you know they used a chain?
DeleteThe containers were large and filled with soil and the friend is a gardener by profession and he presumed so x
DeleteI've just remembered him telling me he had heard chains rattling during the night x
DeleteRat finks!
ReplyDeleteLol I love that phrase
DeleteBastards! I hope Dorothy gave your feet an extra good licking to make up for it. xx
ReplyDeleteShe hasn’t started yet xx
DeleteA wank makes everything feel better...for a few seconds x
ReplyDeleteTrust u
DeleteThey didn't take the dogs, they took your firewood! Did you call the police? Sounds like a bad element is lurking in your village, time to up the police car patrols. You tax dollars at work! If these thieves get the notion your cottage is empty for long stretches they'll be back and get inside your home.
ReplyDeleteThe police would laugh if I phoned them
DeleteThe police reaction here is-can you get another cctv tv camera?!(but if you phone to report it at least you will get a crime number and if enough people report things they should patrol like Lizzy D says-for a while anyway)x
DeleteWhy would the police laugh? Firewood has monetary value, and if they'll go into your shed, they'll go into your house the next time. Assert yourself, get that neighborhood watch group up and yelling.
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PS I think "Samoan rugby player" is a pretty great compliment.
ReplyDeleteI’d take it
DeleteSet Maggie as guard.
ReplyDeleteHow frustrating, angering. I always wonder why? Did they think no one lived there? Did they not care whose it was? Were they really desperate to be warm?
ReplyDeleteI'd take rugby player as a complement.
I did
DeleteJohn the rugby player. That's a complement. Another nice entry for your book. Theft here too. In my center of town there is a post office, ATM, Library and small grocery/deli/coffee shop. At 10PM an attempted robbery occurred. The owner was there. Police caught the robber. Sadly, a sign of the times.
ReplyDeleteHot water bottle and bed with 2 dogs and a cat, should do the trick. Tomorrow an new padlock for the shed...xx
ReplyDeleteStealing someone´s firewood while they are at work is truly despicable. They probably intend to flog it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a mean-hearted thing to do. Chopped, seasoned logs can cost more than a few pennies too. Given where you live, whoever took them must have surely known they were there - doesn't seem like the work of a passing opportunist. If they've done it once they'll likely do it again. I'd invest in some household security cameras - something like a Eufy video doorbell or similar would capture images of any miscreants. If they know there's a camera they'll think twice.
ReplyDeletebastards! at least it wasn't the furkids!
ReplyDeleteCall out the constabulary! Sorry to hear of the theft.
ReplyDeleteIn Trelawnyd? Yes, bastards. From the next village?
ReplyDeleteWhat a Sh#**y thing to happen! A doggy hotwaterbottle for tonight, and padlocks and a security camera on the To Do list John! After your post about stealing dogs, it is a good idea anyway.
ReplyDeleteCall the police. It might seen funny but if you have a group of people who steal what is next. The dogs? Good wood is expensive.
ReplyDeleteWe had mail stolen off and on for several years. My neighbor had her bank statement stolen and her account was wiped out. The cartel is very busy here. They have the kids do these smaller jobs. We also had home invasions with the teens and they all carry guns here. Border living is not all fun an games.
Any travellers about?
ReplyDeleteWow...
DeleteSo sorry the shed's wood load was stolen. Have you a padlock on the shed - or will you have one after you get more wood?
ReplyDeleteLove the Samoan rugby player likeness to you! Hubba hubba!
Yikes, I've just turned 70. I thought I'd be taller by now. Sigh.
Hugs!
Who could steal a person's wood! Now that is low.
ReplyDeleteLook for some kids with an old pram selling logs on the High Street. Little Boggers.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time, a long, long time ago, I lived on the edge of a very little Australian country town. Every now and then our dog would bark in the middle of the night. Mostly we ignored him and told him to be quiet. Then one day we went to the shed way out the back and found that someone had been helping themselves to our wood supply (we kept some close to the house and topped up from the back shed when we ran down so didn't go out there all that often). We had big Mallee roots which you can't pick up with one hand. The next time the dog barked in the middle of the night we went out the back to investigate and a pick up truck hastily drove away down the track. We never ignored the dog barking after that! They helped themselves to my ancient bicycle as well but I didn't mind that as much as the magnificent firewood
ReplyDeleteFirewood? That's a rather unusual thing to steal, especially with summer just around the corner. What's next, stealing ice in December?
ReplyDeleteTime to adopt a pitbull with a big deep bark.
ReplyDeleteOr a Chihuahua cross - they really have an axe to grind
DeleteA Samoan rugby player? Not THAT's hot! I'd be flattered. And as for losing your wood, I hate when that happens.
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I don't think of thefts happening in such a charming place. What a strange thing to steal.
Oh no John ..... I despair of the world sometimes and, it happens everywhere. One would think that a sleepy little village like yours would be free of such behaviour but, no. At least it wasn’t something precious . XXXX
ReplyDeleteA young man knocked on my door a few years ago. Did I need gardening work done? He was very pleasant, told me he'd just moved here with his girlfriend who was from the area, and he was hoping to pick up odd jobs. I said thank you, but no, then he went to call on my neighbours.
ReplyDeleteAbout five minutes later I was upstairs, and could see him call on the house opposite - which was obviously empty, and had bags of building supplies tucked under the inside of the hedge. He then hauled one of the bags over the lawn to a side gate, out into the street and down the road. In full public view. I phoned the police, but he was long gone by the time they arrived.
Unfortunately these thieves are everywhere, and they start young!
I would ring 101 and report it, if it has happened all over the village someone has taken a lot of money's worth of wood, and the Police do like to know of crime waves .... even if some of them will have quite literally gone up in smoke!!
ReplyDeleteAs for the 'Samoan rugby player' comment, I would be relieved to be nursed by a Samoan rugby player with your skillset and knowledge. A nice cuddly bear of a nurse is much more useful than a skinny-minny who can't rollover a sausage roll.
First stolen dogs, now stolen wood? What's next, dig out one of your beloved plants? Grrr. This is one reason we have a Ring Doorbell and a good fence with locks, and low voltage outdoor lighting on ALL night. Bastards.
ReplyDeleteI am sure you took the Samoan rugby player bit as a complaint. As for the wood - agree with Smaller Life - you must report it. Hopefully it will soon be warm enough to do without a fire.
ReplyDeleteThat sucks first the threat of dog snatchers and now people stealing wood. Quaint little villages at more like the movie Hot Fuzz than we imagine.
ReplyDeleteA Samoan rugby player? Where? I want one.
ReplyDeleteAnd that title, John! I was cackling all the way here.
XOXO
What?! I can't believe someone made off with your lumber!
ReplyDeleteEverything is capable of being stolen, 6 am one Sunday morning I spotted some workmen in florescent coats digging up the block brick pavement. That was the pavement being stolen!
ReplyDeleteTry a thumping great padlock on your wood store.
I see your firewood and raise you some mole hills! I kid you not. This morning I watched in amazement as someone came into my garden with a bucket and nicked my molehills!
ReplyDeleteTrouble is, he is in the process of rethatching my roof. End of week 2 of 8. Tomorrow morning those mole hills will be raked before he arrives!
That must have taken some time. Perhaps someone saw them?
ReplyDeleteIn my neighborhood someone stole the recent applied bark chips from the planter beds of an apartment building. They had to be out there at night, raking as quietly as possible to accomplish it!
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry. Maybe someone saw something.
ReplyDeleteSamoan rugby player? Definitely a compliment!
ReplyDeleteFirewood..it's theft..😥 report it!!
Samoan rugby player sounds like a compliment.
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