Was on the phone to my mom yesterday and she told me their garage was broken into a week ago. All my step-dad's tools, collection of peak caps, 2 cooler boxes, other bits and bobs were nicked. She remembers seeing a flash of light in the garage when she was closing her bedroom window but thought nothing off it. Thank God she didn't decide to investigate cos it could've been worse. They found the one garage door half open when they were going out the next morning and some items lying in the driveway. When the cops came round to take finger prints, they told them they were one in three houses broken into that night and they reckon that they must have been disturbed as they would've cleared the garage out if they had of had the chance. The insurance doesn't give you the money anymore to go out and replace your stuff, they buy it for you then courier it to you. How's that! It's funny how you suddenly become "more" security conscious when something like this happens. My step-dad chopped a hole in the garage floor and now chains up the door to a huge bolt in the ground.

I Hate reading things like this!! This is the reason why I cant wait to get out of SA nothing is your anymore. SO SO tired of bolting and locking everything in such a way I cant even open it. So sorry to hear about this.

Donna get them out of SA !!

Mwah

When my in laws finally gapped it from Zim to the UK a couple of years ago I remember them saying that they had their first good nights sleep in so many years as they were no longer concerned about being violently burgalled
I agree, get the folks out

which part were you from..?

guess you must be the tokolosh!

Where am I from,
probably would be accurate if I answered from everywhere as have lived in U Kenya, UK, ever so briefly in old zim, Germany, Central America, Bahrain and now Abu Dhabi
Been travelling since a Pikinin and now I am all growed up I am travelling again
Spiritual home will always be Zim. Love the people (I married one) love the country and if it ever sorts itself then will go back (my wife still has some family there)
In the mean time I am lining up a job in Tanzania so the tockalosh can go back to his woods and do what tockalosh's do best

hey tockalosh, thanks & good luck- agree- zim is wonderful- pity about Mugabe though- he and cronies have destroyed everything and everyone's lives.

Thanks SD,
the job is down near the Zambian border so chance to skip over and enjoy sundowners on the Zambezi. Nothing like them anywhere else on Earth as well you know I guess. Followed by a couple of cold castles and then bring on the shake shake, chibuku is bo
Could rattle on for hours about Mugabe has done but dont want the CIO waiting for me at Dar Es Salaam or lurking under the waters of the Zambezi. This tockalosh must remain secretive and furtive

So you from Zim then ?

sure...but as you say its a murky environment...

but seriously, chibuku is crap