Week 49

So, today I looked out of my window and saw that the side door to the garage was swinging open. I thought it had been blown open in the wind but when I got out there, all the locks are twisted and the door frame is all splintered.

Yup, this happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning between 5am and 5:30am. I know cos I now remember hearing it.

My nice neighbour is a truck delivery driver and often has to leave for work in the early hours, so I am used to him opening his garage doors in the early hours. When this happened, I thought it was him as his garage is right next door to ours. I now remember that the door opening noise wasn't followed by him getting his van out, no engine noise.

Luckily, they haven't touched my Beetle and nothing else has been taken. We know who did it but not exactly who.

They got over the fence at the end of the garden that joins onto the school field. We know this cos they have moved a paving stone to prop it up at the fence to make their getaway back over it.

On Monday, there was people doing community service cutting down the trees on the school field. They obviously saw the garage then and came back in the early hours to nick the strimmer. So we know what people did it but not who exactly.

My nice neighbour has sealed up the door and I have reported it to a lovely policewoman at the crime recording bureau and she has allocated a policeman to come and see us.

We did all this detective work ourselves, in the dark tonight. But all the timing fits and at least now all they have to do is get the names of the people doing community service that day. It would be too much of a coincidence for it not to be one of them.

We shall see what happens.