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Old Jan 31st 2015, 2:11 am
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Is it usual for someone to simply walk onto your front garden and take a selection of heads from a lavender plant? They parked the car opposite and then drove off.
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We did have people taking our nuts, but they asked first
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Is it usual for someone to simply walk onto your front garden and take a selection of heads from a lavender plant? They parked the car opposite and then drove off.
They say most theft is opportunistic, perhaps they where making potpourri?
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Thats Vegas for ya !!
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Is it usual for someone to simply walk onto your front garden and take a selection of heads from a lavender plant? They parked the car opposite and then drove off.
Wouldn't have been me at any time, I always waited till darkness before doing any of that..
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The crime has reached a dramatic conclusion. I built a small wooden frame this morning and placed it at the crime scene with a few short words. Five hours later a lady called at the house to confess.
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The crime has reached a dramatic conclusion. I built a small wooden frame this morning and placed it at the crime scene with a few short words. Five hours later a lady called at the house to confess.
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Hehe.
We used to have an old Maori lady who'd come into our front garden harvesting puha. Or weeds as we called it.
Apparently she was over 100 years old. We just left her to it!
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This reminds me of a geography teacher in the early 80's. She set up the Rainford High Horticultural Society (RHHS for short. She liked this because it was similar to the RHS at Wisley!!!) when the new VI form block was built at the school. She encouraged us to 'take' any nice flowers we saw in gardens if we went for a walk into the village at lunchtime . She wanted them to decorate the tables in our common room .

What did you put on your note Snaps?
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Old Feb 4th 2015, 4:38 am
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Hi Vitalstatistix. Simple but did the job. Maybe it was the shape of the frame!!!
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