I forgot to blog earlier that we have been Victims Of Crime.
When my Dad arrived this morning he couldn’t ring on the doorbell because the bell push was missing!!!
Da da dahhhhh! (as Davies once said 😉 )
We have a wireless doorbell and the bell push was just hooked on by a screw. About 11pm last night I heard the letterbox rattle on the front door but assumed it was Ady (I was in Tarly’s room dealing with her), but when I went in the lounge he was asleep on the sofa but I forgot all about it. Clearly there was someone stealing our door furntiture – lucky they didn’t take the letterbox too probably!
Have spent all day wondering quite why someone would want to nick a bell push really? Was it a dare? Is there a series of similarly random thefts from people’s front doors all along the street? Is there attractive house number pottery plates with squirels or Great British birds missing? Wrought iron effect plastic house numbers awol? An obscure collection of items from around the area right now nestling in someone’s ‘den’? Gromes, traffic cones, our bell push, wing mirrors, milk bottles and gate hinges jostling for space with signs proclaiming ‘DOG BITES FIRST, ASKS QUESTIONS LATER’ and ‘NO FREE PAPERS’ and ‘BEWARE OF THE WIFE’.
We had a spare so we’ve put that up but it is programmed to play the first two lines of ‘Twinkle twinkle little star’ instead of the normal ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong we had before (which Davies and I have discussed at length as to whether it is Twinkle twinkle or the alphabet song, with me even wondering if Baa baa black sheep would also fit – I’m spying a lack of originality in nursery rhyme music y’know) and of course we have been trying to think up punchlines to the ‘spate of doorbell robberies in the area’ joke (you know, to go with the ‘police are combing the area’ one for hairdressers being burgled and ‘police have nothing to go on’ for the toilet seat factory and of course the classic ‘dogs stolen from pet shop’ being ‘police say they have no leads’) – best we can come up with is that it wouldn’t have been a lone criminal – it must have been a ring of thieves. Ring, doorbell – get it? 😆