Great............. A note has just come through the door saying that the Boy Scout troop from the local town is doing a night time orienteering course in the next door wood tomorrow and they will be using the right-of-way path that goes just by our house. Just what I needed. Every single teenage boy in the area will now know where - and how isolated - our house is. It was at exactly this time of year last year that we were burgled by local teenage boys. F@ck.

We own 200 acres of farmland with our house right in the middle. Obviously we are too lazy and my husband does not have time to look after it ourselves but luckily the neighbouring farmers are thrilled to have extra grazing and it has all worked out really well. The only drawback to the sense of peace and security is the right-of-way 'Bridlepath' which runs through the middle of the land (once from one village to another) and very near to the house. It is mostly narrow and muddy and is only legal for walking or riding and in fact, is hardly ever used. So these stupid Scouts are a huge, potentially serious, bore.

Ha! I have just rung the Scout Master in fake concern saying that we have major burglar alarms with sensors on the drive that alert the police station and obviously we wouldn't want their boys being upset by these going off. So I will make sure that they are disabled for the whole evening.
(We don't actually have these, naturally). He was touchingly grateful for my helpfulness and I am hoping that this is passed on to potential Scout burglars so they think it isn't worth bothering.
Or .... they will just know to approach the house from over the fields ........... Crap.
- posted by Iris @ 11/20/2003 11:50:00 AM comment