She isn't sure what time - she heard a noise but turned over and went back to sleep - but in the morning when she came through there it was - a huge brick on the sofa, which is on the far side of that room, a huge hole in her leaded window, and glass just about everywhere!!!!Firstly she rang the police and then straight away rang us - it was just before 8am and we were still dozing, but were up showered, dressed and in the car by 8.15! Becks was here luckily to get up and see to the dogs! D was very shaky when we got there, but thankfully totally unharmed! What I can't get out of my head is with it being a big chalet bungalow, a lot of them have bedrooms at the front of the house - in fact the room the other side of the front door is a spare bedroom - and it could so easily have been her bedroom and she could have been badly hurt or worse - it was a big brick, Mick called it a pavier (sp?) and very heavy
The police came quickly, he was lovely, then the next door neighbour called to see if D was ok, then neighbourhood watch, and then a couple of community police women in what they called a welfare call (basically to see is she was ok) and then finally the insurance people - Mick had called them - sent out a glazier to secure the window! We cleaned up as soon as the police said it was ok to do so.......glass everywhere, it took ages with a dustpan and brush, and then the hoover several times. All the furniture had to be moved out then back in again......A couple of ornaments were broken but luckily not her lovely crystal, of which she has quite a lot!
We were there until about 1sh, we weren't going anywhere until the house was secure again! The police were convinced it was a random act of drunken vandalism - it is a very quiet and nice road (so quiet the policeman who has been in Gloucester for 8 years had never been down there before) but not that far from the main road where there are pubs and student accommodation, but it is scary to think that she could have been hurt, or robbed
I could throttle the thoughtless, idiotic, drunken fool, whoever he was
