The timeline revisited

[Wonderfulspam]

Anyway, getting back to the subject of tents & child safety.

No, tents aren't safe for keeping precious things in imo.

[Erngath]

Anyway, getting back to the subject of tents & child safety.

No, tents aren't safe for keeping precious things in imo.

Of course they are unless you have anyone about who is a thief, murderer, rapist or anyone who does not believe in the rule of law.

[Eleanor]

It is the burglar's fault.
If an elderly person forgets to lock their door and their home is ransacked.....it surely is the fault of the burglar?

Sadly it is a bit more complicated these days.  Will The Insurance Company pay?  They jolly well ought to, but these are the real thieves.

The burglar will likely never be caught and if they ever are then the property is long gone.

I was burgled once a long time ago and had about £4,000 worth of jewellery stolen.  Sadly under insured.  My front door had been left open, but the insurance company paid up.

And then this really quite nice man came up to me in a Pub one day and told me that he had done it and been to prison for it.  Cor blimey mate,  I was gob smacked.  I asked him what he had done with my lovely Albert, but he couldn't remember.  And there went the only piece of jewellery that I actually loved.

The Police never told me anything.

[Wonderfulspam]

Of course they are unless you have anyone about who is a thief, murderer, rapist or anyone who does not believe in the rule of law.

Consider a violent storm, wild animal attack a tent is of no protection.

4 brick walls, roof, locked door. I'm staying in there, the kids can go play outside if they want to.

[Vertigo Swirl]

The majority are the Smith's Cd's, off the top of my head for instance the 1988 reissue of The Headmaster Ritual, which was discontinued due to objection by the actress pictured on the front cover.
In that case it isn't even the disc data but the artwork that matters. I have the full set of re issues.
I have a mint copy of headmaster that's only worth around maybe 40 to 80 pounds though granted, compared to the Smith's Rhino records box set released 2011 sealed, bought for a tenner, I've seen open copies go on ebay for over 100.

I have the first Smiths album on vinyl fully signed by the band, as well as Heaven Knows 12” and Hand In Glove 7” fully signed, that’s a good £1000 for starters. I used to have all the long promo posters advertising the singles which I foolishly sold 30 years ago, each one worth over £100 now.  b....r.  Never mind, it will all be in a skip somewhere in less than 50 years.

[Vertigo Swirl]

No it's still the fault of the elderly person, unless they had dementia & a designated carer who's job it was to make sure the doors were locked. In which case it would be the carers fault.

So the pensioner would be arrested for the theft and the burglar would be completely exonerated?

[Eleanor]

If they want anything of value from my gaff they'll have to bring it along first.

I don't have much any more.  And couldn't find it if I tried.  It is all scattered all over the place.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Anyway, getting back to the subject of tents & child safety.

No, tents aren't safe for keeping precious things in imo.

People don’t keep children in tents as a rule.  They go camping with tents.  My son used to go camping with the scouts, he escaped unmolested which was something of a miracle now I come to think of it,..

[Eleanor]

I have the first Smiths album on vinyl fully signed by the band, as well as Heaven Knows 12” and Hand In Glove 7” fully signed, that’s a good £1000 for starters. I used to have all the long promo posters advertising the singles which I foolishly sold 30 years ago, each one worth over £100 now.  b....r.  Never mind, it will all be in a skip somewhere in less than 50 years.

My eldest son has got all of my Beatles LPs.  He refuses to give them back.  But mine was the time and will never be his.

[Wonderfulspam]

People don’t keep children in tents as a rule.  They go camping with tents.  My son used to go camping with the scouts, he escaped unmolested which was something of a miracle now I come to think of it,..

Used to camp on the IOW as a child, North Wales when I got a bit older, lovely memories of warm summers on the IOW. Nearly froze to death in Snowdonia early spring, blizzard conditions, hail stones like golf balls, thankfully no rapists or murderers though.

[Eleanor]

People don’t keep children in tents as a rule.  They go camping with tents.  My son used to go camping with the scouts, he escaped unmolested which was something of a miracle now I come to think of it,..

That was funny.

I was a Cub Mistress once upon a time.  According to my step mother the Cub Master was after me although I didn't see it.  She stopped me doing something that I really liked.  So I bogged off and Joined The Wrens.

And hasn't this all gone a bit Off Topic.

[Wonderfulspam]

So the pensioner would be arrested for the theft and the burglar would be completely exonerated?

No, the pensioners carer would be arrested for negligence & sentenced to life for assisting the burglar, who'd only get a suspended because he'd had a tough upbringing.

Of course, if he sexually assaulted the pensioner he'd be off to Antarctica, with only a tent for protection.

[Eleanor]

Used to camp on the IOW as a child, North Wales when I got a bit older, lovely memories of warm summers on the IOW. Nearly froze to death in Snowdonia early spring, blizzard conditions, hail stones like golf balls, thankfully no rapists or murderers though.

That is really nice.  Even if it was a bit chilly.  You should have tried Neasden in 1950.

[Vertigo Swirl]

That was funny.

I was a Cub Mistress once upon a time.  According to my step mother the Cub Master was after me although I didn't see it.  She stopped me doing something that I really liked.  So I bogged off and Joined The Wrens.

And hasn't this all gone a bit Off Topic.

yes but it makes a nice little interlude in the relentless McCann bashing.

[Eleanor]

yes but it makes a nice little interlude in the relentless McCann bashing.

Yes, it so does.  But probably pertinent anyway.

We are all who we are.

I was swanning around in Singapore and leaving my Amah to take care of the brats while your parents were swanning around up the road a bit in Malaysia and doing the same thing.  Those were the days my friend.  No child was ever neglected in the care of an Amah.