We were burgled on Friday evening. We were in the living room watching TV (Randall & Hopkirk on DVD) and around 10:15 we heard a thump. The cats did their usual **ALERT** behaviour, but we assumed it came from next door - they're a noisy bunch, and we often hear doors slamming and so on. At 11:30 I went downstairs to feed the cats, (our living room is on the first floor - USian: second floor) and noticed that the front room door was open. I assumed that Tracy has left it open after her work-out session, but then I saw that the kitchen window had been broken. Glass everywhere, drawers open, TV missing. I phoned the police and they arrived within ten minutes. Nothing else had been taken. Brief statements, crime number, pretty much a sleepless night.

Saturday morning the SOCO guy turned up, covered everywhere with powder and lifted a few useful shoe prints, and a couple of fingerprints, probably ours. He took reference prints from us, then left. Then a guy came to board up the window.

Insurance covers most of it, but even so; bastard.