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Quote: Originally posted by Val A on 29/8/2015

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Steve - I sympathise! My post in this earlier thread tells my story of what happened this weekend.

The annoying this is, like you, we'd become complacent and dropped our guard. The caravan had been safe there for three weeks with us staying in it, so it would be safe if we left it empty for just one night! It wasn't.

The thieves took a very strange mix of things and day by day it becomes stranger! The list is now:

Hook up cable, awning canvas but not poles, Isabella loungers, a cafetiere, the caravan steps, the body of the hoover but not the tools, my hairdryer and tongs, the clothes peg bag and pegs, the fly swatter, all our towels, a clear glass salad bowl, two wooden spatulas and a wooden spoon, an outside awning light and a selection of toiletries (spare toothpaste, face cream, shampoo etc). Day by day, as we go to use something, we find it missing! Make of that what you will - obviously not professional thieves - and perhaps travelling caravanners who were short of a few things!

The only valuable things were the loungers, which I didn't like anyway - but it's still annoying and it puts you on your guard about just how insecure camping actually is.

I hope you do manage to track your phone - though I doubt it. As I said in my post on another forum, it does seem that there are more and more people who are desperate for money (or electric fly swats) who are more than willing to break into property to get what they want!

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