Strange things happen around my workshop when I am not there. Usually it involves some sort of vandalism or attempted break-in. It has been a while since someone has dumped a stolen car there.
The day before yesterday I arrived to find a pile of white feathers in the car-park area. As I looked at it from inside the car, I assumed that it must have been the evidence of a hawk kill on a white dove, but there seemed to be too many feathers for one small bird. Just as I thought that, a Sparrow Hawk flew low over them and perched on a nearby gate. Maybe it was a goose?
I got out of the car and found a larger pile the other side of my entrance. There was no blood or scraps of dead goose - or even swan. The feathers were perfectly clean and all the same size. I looked around for a discarded duvet cover, but there was none.
Later in the day, I spoke to someone who could explain exactly what had happened. He had arrived at 9.30am to find a wealthy-looking woman with a large and expensive 4x4 car with a personalised number plate (K7 ETA), emptying huge bags of feathers on the ground as her dog sniffed around.
He asked her what she was doing, and she mumbled some excuse which put the blame on the dog, then began clearing up the two huge piles as best she could, stuffing them back into the bags. Apparently the piles were enormous. What she left behind in the grass was just the dregs she couldn't pick up.
If anyone has access to Vehicle Licensing records, you may want to alert the authorities that a woman in the Bath area may need professional help - or prosecuting for fly-tipping.
White BMW Sport, 4 door. She needs to get up a bit earlier next time she goes fly-tipping.
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DeleteJust wondering, what is fly-tipping? -Jenn
ReplyDeleteIt is the dumping of rubbish, usually in beauty spots. The last builder to get caught doing that in my yard was fined £8000. He left an envelope with his name and address on it.
DeleteAhhh. People do that sort of thing here, too.
DeleteMy old car was K7 ***. My initials. No old duvet though.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was personalised - does it relate to an area like Jersey or somewhere?
DeleteOn a 2009 BMW Sport I would say it was personalised.
DeleteWhat a weird thing to do. Upon first glance, it almost looked as if someone had had a raucous yet contained pillow fight.
ReplyDeleteI thought that at one point.
DeleteGood the feathers were not in the icing. What interesting tales you dangle. All the same size! Put through a feather grader, then? Find her, Sherlock, because there is a blue carbuncle amongst all those goose feathers.
ReplyDeleteI go to the pub near the British Museum where that goose was sold quite often!
DeleteReminds me of my first husband many years ago. A group of volunteers were decorating the village hall when he noticed a rather posh woman dumping fish and chips and the paper in the hedge bottom. He took the number of the car and then approached them and told them he would give them a quarter of an hour to pick up every last chip after which he intended to ring the police with their number. They complied and he came home very satisfied.
ReplyDeleteOnce or twice I have caught people, but usually it is done early or late.
DeleteHow strange ...... why couldn’t she just put it in her own household rubbish even if she had to spread it out over a couple of weeks ?
ReplyDeleteI think that your compact but adorable city apartment was on the news tonight !!! XXXX
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DeleteThe BBC were in Bath, talking about Universal credit ..... I’m sure it was your street with the building with the statue of Queen Victoria on one side of the street and your compact but adorable city apartment on the other .... I looked out for you but you were probably in The Bell 🤣 XXXX
DeleteShame. I missed another opportunity to appear on national TV.
DeleteMaybe someone thought that Sir Craig Mackey was hiding there!
ReplyDeleteI may have to Google him up.
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