Somebody has nicked my watering can!

Isn't it annoying!?
There are children who play around here, so it may have been them.

I'm tempted to have a little walk around and see if I find it - except I can't walk hardly at all.

Last summer my husband planted some house leeks along the wall beside our house. Someone took four of them. To walk past the wall you have to be visiting our house or our neighbours as they are the only two houses on this piece of land. Nobody came to see us.

It's the sheer inconvenience of little things going missing.
I paid more than I wanted to, a couple of years ago for that can, because I felt a bit off colour and didnt want to trawl around the cheap shops.
Now I'll have to order one online and pay more again.

Someone once stole my compost. They left the compost bins.

BlueBelle that’s just brilliant!

Chewbacca

Couldn't be "her next door" could it MissA? She could be holding it hostage, in the hope you'll ask her about it.

It'll probably appear on my step with a ransome demand pinned to it.

One of our neighbours had an expensive pushchair delivered, but as they weren't in, "the neighbour" took it in.
The delivery man wrote a note to put through the door telling them a the pushchair had been delivered to.... he asked "the neighbour" her number, and she checked her own front door.
She is number 11, but one of the 1s had fallen off, so she told him she was number 1 (my number)

Couldn't be "her next door" could it MissA? She could be holding it hostage, in the hope you'll ask her about it.

Goodness BlueBelle, you did take a chance, but sometimes indignation and anger give you a determination that defies logic. Well done for getting the shirt back.

I thought it could be the neighbour too, MisAdventure. The one who pesters you. Don't ask her though, whatever you do.

One day a long time ago I was walking up the steeet and met a rough hard looking man walking down the street wearing a football teams top from my sons club out of curiosity to tell my son ‘oh I saw somebody called xxxx walk down the street today he must be off your team’ I turned and look as he walked past and nearly dropped off my perch to see my sons name emblazoned across the back It was my sons top I saw red and went up to the guy and asked for it back he gave me a mouthful I asked again and told him to take it off immediately, he again gave me another mouthful which involved the word off I told him I was going to walk beside him until he gave it to me, after a few more lots of swearing at me and me trotting beside him saying give me that back like a bloody parrot he pulled it off threw it at me and carried on bare chested down the street
When I told my son the story he told me I was an idiot and could have been hurt over a football top and of course he was right
We have no idea how he got the top unless it was pinched off the washing line

Well, it has crossed my mind, because she does fill the can up for me sometimes, when I can't manage it.
I wondered if she had got confused and put it somewhere.

The missing sledge, though. Hmmm, christmassy pants, red sledge... I think our suspect could be father christmas!

When our car was broken into many, many years ago, the thieves took the radio, the satnav, loose change, an umbrella and to DH's disgust, insulted us by leaving the CDs....??

Somebody once stole DD1’s red plastic sledge that her Grandad had written her name on. 40 years ago and she still goes on about it!
MissA - I don’t suppose you’re ‘crazy’ neighbour could be a suspect?
Honestly, what’s the World coming to.

They left my tricoloured buddhleia (sp) and half inched me can!

Yes, I do!
None of them grow plants though, as far as I know.
And I've not seen any in christmas pants.

I'm so sorry Miss Adventure
Sometimes these criminals can be closer than we think.
You don't have any suspicious looking neighbours do you? ?

They'll know it's my watering can, it has a distinguishing feature.
A banana skin inside it.

Perhaps crime watch would be interested?
They could make a short film detailing the crime, with a photofit.

Someone stole a large granite rock from our front garden. Rather worryingly we found it a few days later next to the back garden gate. I wondered if someone was trying to break in.

Several years ago someone stole my husband's pants off the washing line. They were his Father Christmas pattered ones and had been a present.

We're looking for a person in Christmassy pants with a watering can and a pebble.

Honestly, where will it end?
Pebbles, watering cans...
Is nothing sacred??

I'm sorry to hear that MissAdventure.

In the hot weather I put a bowl of water at the bottom of my drive for passing dogs and wildlife. I put a pretty pebble in it so that insects could escape and some rotten bugger has stolen my pebble!

There must be gangs of them!
The daft thing is that I can't stop looking for it!

I think "Oh, I'll just check here... or there..." even though I know it's gone, it's hard to accept.

I’m sure I read another post recently about a stolen watering can. It’s a crime wave!