I keep having things go missing from the back garden: some time last week, my metal sieve disappeared. Two days ago, my garden broom, old and dusty admittedly, also got nabbed.
Anyway, for my birthday, my wife bought me one of the cameras that fit into the car, so I had an idea. I rigged it up in the spare room, hanging slightly outside the window, looking into the back garden. It's has a wide angle view so it would see anyone coming into the garden. Literally the next night I hit jackpot. It was a warm night, dry and quiet, perfect for capturing a great HD video.
At about 2am, I heard a noise in the back garden, kind of like a scraping noise. I jumped out of bed, looked through the curtains and noticed that one of the wooden posts had been knocked over. I was also sure I saw something black, what I can only describe as a cloak, disappearing out of sight. So I decided to review the camera footage, and I ran into the spare room.
As I quickly swung through the doorway into the room, my hand grabbed something on the door frame: a piece of tinsel, still there from Christmas, my wife's idea of upstairs Christmas decorating, attached with selotape! It came off in my hand and, although it was dark, I knew the sticky tape would have taken off some of the paint. And the annoying part was the realisation that there were probably other decorations around the house still up there with that stupid sticky tape. Why do people do this? It's just beyond me. And then an idea came to me, both brilliant and practical. I would tell my wife to use masking tape from now on. At least then the paint and wallpaper would survive.
