Vandals! (Fence)
Sunday, there was stuff scattered around, I realised later it was firelighters. All of the garden tools were fine. I knew the most likely casualty of unwanted visitors would be the heavy duty wire cutters, (thieves love those things), and so it proved. The "fence" along the NW bed was actually just a single line of barbed wire. It had been cut in two places. Then I realised they'd also pinched my Aramco shirt, which was just plain weird. A little downcast, I carried on with the last leg of the fruit bush disinterment marathon. I'd just got started when I heard a shriek. It was that kind of shriek that you hear from a young man high on booze, probably helped along with a bit of amphetamine. And there they were, three lads about 15 years old, in the allotment on the other side of the raised beds area, quite oblivious to the fact that I was staring at them, from an allotment they'd just plundered, 30 yards away. I was nonplussed. Then a man showed up in the lane, a...