A great guy called Levi took over a plot early this Summer. I saw him this morning though and he seemed a bit distressed ... poor thing!
LEVI: "Trix, I've been trying to get hold of the Secretary but the phone's off. People are stealing things from my allotment, I want to swap to another one. I'm being targetted. Can you help me?"
ME: "What sort of things are being stolen Levi? I'll see what I can do."
LEVI: "Gardening gloves. I've had 3 pairs disappear over the last week. I set a trap the other day ... left one pair on the workbench outside and HID my other pairs in the shed. The ones on the workbench went missing."
ME: (Wondering how that could possibly constitute a 'trap' but keeping an open mind) "Anything else gone missing? Tools or anything like that?"
LEVI: "No. Just the gloves"
ME: "It's a fox Levi! They pinch things like that. They pinch shoes, gloves etc. One even pinched a mobile phone and the Treasurer's bag with her dinner in it, the Allotment Society cheque-book and the petty cash tin"
At that very moment, just as Levi's eyes went WIDE in disbelief, a fox appeared at the top of the allotment avenue with a carrier bag in its mouth - probably full of someone's shopping!
We breed VERY delinquent foxes in our neck of the 'inner-city' woods! ;D And I love 'em!