30 August
Here I sat playing on me ‘puter when I had a visitor
to our back door. She had come to ask if I had seen anyone at the drying area about
15’ from the door. Well, I hadn’t, just like the last time when someone smashed
the gnome. This lady had hung some sheets out to dry and they had gone missing.
Kath, the lady who lives in the flat below her had also had all her washing go
missing. Now here’s how close the area is to our back door …
As you can see it’s
very close. But once I’m on here and got my head into doing something on line
here, I’m not aware of anything going on outside.
We always have that door open so there’s a nice flow
of fresh air into here. This is fine when we are both here but we are
re-thinking the idea of leaving it open when Jan is out. That lappy you can see
above is Jan’s and that’s where she sits in home. If I’m as unaware as I am
normally on my ‘puter, then that lappy is all too easy to nick. Jan’s camera is
usually sitting there beside her too. As it was, the washing hadn’t been
nicked; no, another lady had taken it in when it started raining.
That made me feel somewhat better, but we still feel
that if it’s that easy to remove things without me seeing them, then it’s far
too easy for any valuables to go missing. As it is we have a CCTV system ready
to be put up and we are going to do that this weekend. It might just scare
people off, but if not, then we should have a record of who is about anyway.
We were lucky this time, nothing was taken so no crime
committed. But the fear of crime is one of biggest problems that we face. On
Wednesday evening I was speaking to a guy who lives across the street. He came
over to speak to us as we arrived home. He told me that he had had £3500 worth
of tools stolen out of his van. As a self-employed tradesman, his livelihood is
not at risk. But even more of a worry for him is since then he isn’t sleeping
very well. He’s up out of bed and looking out the window at every sound out on
the street. That is not doing either him or his wife any good. See, it’s the
fear of crime that hurts.
I can just about remember the tram service in Coventry;
I do remember the lines that were in Bed’th though. New tram services are being
installed all over the place. Last year when I was in Edinburgh I saw that
there was one being installed there too, even though there is no need, or call
for one. Princes Street was in a hell of mess because of it. But it was on this
day that the first tram service was started in 1860. That service was started
in Birkenhead.
And so time for a photo …
A twisted tree in Holy Trinity
church yard, Strafford. All I’ve done with this one is to convert to mono and
boost the contrast a wee bit. I think it’s one of the best shots I’ve done for
some time now.
Today’s funny …
Paul
walks into the boss’s office. “Sir, let me get straight to the point, I know
the economy is really down, but I have a couple of companies after me, and I
would like to ask for a raise.” After a few minutes of haggling
between them the boss finally agrees to a 10% raise, and Paul
gets up to leave happily. “One minute”, says the boss to Paul
, “which companies are after you by the way?” “The gas company, cable
company, and phone company”, Paul replied!
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