When I first started writing this blog I mentioned that our wheelie bin had been stolen three times.  Three times.  And by the same people.  This probably shouldn’t annoy me as much as it does but it’s such a hassle.  We have to phone the council and wait for them to deliver a new one (god only knows what they think we do with them all) and in the meantime our rubbish just piles up.  And what’s more the culprit lives next door and all the time I can see my wheelie bins over the garden wall.

So, the last time this happened I decided to do something about it.  Instead of enquiring politely as to whether our neighbour had ‘inadvertently’ taken our bin, I opted for painting our house number on the front of the replacement in big letters.  Unfortunately it didn’t stop there.  I painted it on each side and on the top using a mushroom paint sample I found in the cellar.  When Lord Levy got home he wasn’t best pleased and grumbled that it was now visible from space, never mind from over the garden wall.  However, it seems to have done the trick and for the past few months our bin has remained with its rightful owner.

I was therefore dismayed after last week’s collection when dragging the bin back into the garden, I noticed that someone had written ‘gangsta’ on the top.  I don’t know what annoyed me more, the fact that someone had vandalised it or that it was spelled incorrectly.

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