Nefarious Goings On

Yesterday, we had quite an afternoon, in fact we are all still feeling the need for mugs of hot, steaming, sweet tea and blankets around our shoulders …….

…… when we became witnesses to three nefarious characters on the run from the police. There we were innocently helping Darrell with his online Tesco order when we all looked up at the same time and saw said characters climbing over our fence and running up our bank.

One character managed to get over the railway fence and climb up to embankment, which had us all gasping as there was a train coming over the bridge at the same time. 

Another character stopped at the top of our fence, standing for a few moments before becoming aware that there were three pairs of eyes fixed on him at the window.  Nigel says he gave him his best “I got you sonny” stare.  Unsure of where to go next, he turned and then slipped, sliding on the way down on his bottom, that bank is steep!  He then ran down the river with his companion.

We then got a text message from our friend on the top floor saying that there were five police cars at the entrance of our estate.  Something was a foot, but, to be honest, we just got on with our Tesco order, only to then hear the police helicopter circling overhead and see a swarming police presence at the bottom of the bank, OMG!

We all rushed to the window and called to one of the officers asking if they were looking for three characters ….. they were, OMG! We quickly told them that we had seen them and gave descriptions and the directions they went.  I could see Darrell visibly shaking, we had become real life witnesses!  The policeman asked for our names and telephone number and said he might possibly call us back.

I really didn’t think that if/when he did call back we would be able to add anything more, but then Darrell appeared to channel the late, great Derek Acorah (RIP) saying he was positive that he had seen at least two of the nefarious characters before, a couple of weeks ago when he had shouted at them for trespassing in our (communal) garden and leaping over the fence at the back, one of the characters, he said, was quite distinctive and it was unlikely that there could be two the same roaming the estate.

After that, the poor lamb had to have a long lie down in order to compose himself again.

We have yet to have that call back, obviously we will let you know if we do, but only two days into September it's been quite eventful.  Let’s just say Nigel is already practising taking the oath over one of Darrell’s cook books!  What is he like?