Burglary!

The shed was broken into the weekend before last - I'm leaving it unlocked now, on two occasions so far the thieves have easily bust their way past the padlock only to turn up their noses in disdain at my grubby wellies and bendy tools. I'm heading down to the police station on wednesday to give a statement to the local PCSO. I'd like to get an allotment watch scheme started - some nice publicity for the local police and hopefully a bit of passing attention too. I've bent the ear of Reg, the allotment representative, a couple of times now. Security is terrible, and the gate is often left unlocked or with the lock left on the combination. I suspect Reg will go along with it just to shut me up. He has been reporting it to the council and relying on them to report it to the local police, but little or nothing has resulted from this. When I discovered the latest break-in I was on my way to see my sister in London, so I asked a couple of friends of mine to pop over if they had time and fix the window, which the thieves had pushed in with an old fence post. My friends were, rather sweetly, quite outraged on my behalf, while I've got to the stage of merely thinking 'meh... here we go again' each time the shed is forced open.