Richard, a tiler, visited us earlier this year. During our conversation, he recounted how a policeman had informed that if one owns a dog one is seventy per cent less likely to be burgled.
The officer added that if one goes to the trouble of placing a pair of workman’s boots outside one’s front door then then the chance of one’s property being burgled diminish even further.
Armed with this knowledge Richard visited his elderly mother and, knowing that she already had a dog, arranged for her to receive a pair of such boots to display outside her front door.
However, when he revisited her, he noticed that the boots had been painted and further to this, on a subsequent visit, could not fail to observe that each contained one of her favourite flowering plants.