Just a quick reminder Make sure your property is SECURE …
Woke up to find a card on the door mat from the plod.
Some poor sod has been broken into round by where I live which was probably due to the hot weather and windows left open… I have also had the same unwanted guest 
Now I admit I left a window in the conservatory open which is where the hose for the Tumble dryer goes.
The visitor I had could only get as far as the conservatory but were able to get hold of half a set of keys for the house.
SOCO have been and lifted a great set of prints so fingers x’d.
Like I Say … Even if your home don’t leave doors / windows open unlocked etc make sure any sheds garages are secure and any side rear access to your property is secure and locked…
We lock side gates here,as well as doors. We have a dog,but these thieving gits will poison a dog to get into your property. This country has gone soft on law and order. Also not enough punishment for the offenders.
I remember a time when you could leave the house unlocked, the car unlocked with keys in the ignition and nothing would be touched, now if it aint welded into place then it goes walkier.
Haven’t locked our house since the day we moved in 8 years ago , don’t know where the keys are now . Shepherds are a good deterrent .
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Haven’t locked our house since the day we moved in 8 years ago , don’t know where the keys are now . Shepherds are a good deterrent .
I`ve heard on quite a few occasions that sizeable chunks of Canada are (comparative to the U.K.) relatively safe enough not to have to “lockdown” every time you look the other way. Is it that a much larger percentage of Canadians have better ethical/moral values, or is it that they live too damned far apart from their neighbours to make a burglary viable? (joking!) 
Friends of mine fostered a young lad for a while, who came from a rather dubious background.
Coming home one night they found they had locked themselves out, to whit the young lad said leave it to me, shimmyed up the drainpipe and wriggled through a window that neither of my friends had thought anyone could squeeze through.
I was burgled last year, nothing much to take but they took some sentimental stuff including a ring of my OH who had just gone into a care home four days earlier 
and in their trawl round, also broke into the house of a 96 year old woman stealing her ■■■■■. She must have been terrified in her own home after that. 