Re: Bricking it.

Sheel wrote:
> Just got back from my mother's.
>
> I've seen it all now.
>
> The houses in the area are Victorian. They have low walls in front of
> them. Some louse is going around the area at night stealing the 100+
> years bricks from the garden walls. Some walls are almost completely
> gone.
>
> This week they started on my mother's by loosening the mortar and
> cutting the edge off the top capping stones. Dunno why. They got other
> people's bricks without touching the capping stones.
>
> Nobody hears or sees anything, but they must make a heck of a noise
> doing it.
>
> She's now thinking of getting the lovely bricks rendered over.
> I think the thief will still smash the wall to get the bricks.
> A local builder called the bricks 'flinnies' or summat like that.
>
> Years ago a louse was removing stained glass from the local front
> doors, so my mother got a porch door put on to protect the Victorian
> front door.
>
> She also has some lovely tiles on the front path which no doubt will
> get nicked.
>
> Whatever next?

In my area the pavements are old town paving slabs, you know the big bugger
size? Really old victorian ones? A few years ago someone started pinching
them for patio slabs. He would drive to a destination in a white van (not
disimilar to a council van) and set up a little cordon with a mate, both
were wearing yellow jackets. No-one questioned them as they thought they
were council workers. They took whole pavements at a time.
--
Kath
~
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never
remembers her age.
- Robert Frost


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