feel safe?

[Leon]

well guys I was dying to tell you all I had booked a week just outside Ayr but due to what happened the other week with the neighbours I thought it was best to keep it off the forums and Facebook. pictures need sifting through and a few edits, will be on before Sunday

 

this may be a daft question but am I the only one who is a little paranoid when on Holidays???

[Barbara]

What will be will be, well insured, doubt anyone would want my junk, that is if they can find anything under the dust  

[Martyn]

I err on the side of caution with social media when I'm away from home; I don't post holiday pics or locations that would give anyone the idea that there's no one in, even though the kids may be at home!

[Ian]

I'm all right until I'm on the trip home then I start wondering what I'm going to be confronted with.

 

1 times after a day out we got home to the hose ransacked and the patio doors wrenched open   then only about 4 years ago we got home after a 2 week holiday in Cornwall to the burglar alarm alarm light flashing telling us it had gone off, this time it wasn't a break in, it was the flat roof at the back of the house had sprung a leak and taken half the ceiling down causing even more damage than the break in, TV, Sky box, DVD player, carpet, sofa and other stuff ruined due to all the water that came through 

[Creativesnaps]

I err on the side of caution with social media when I'm away from home; I don't post holiday pics or locations that would give anyone the idea that there's no one in, even though the kids may be at home!

Never really thought like that but now i will.  I be a bit more careful from now one with what i post.

[fuzzyedges]

The less the world knows about me the better

 

Them that has to know, know Them that dont, dont know I exist

[annie]

glad your all home safe and sound from your trip leon, and glad everything was fine when you reached home. it's always on the last leg of a trip I start worrying, especially coming round the final corner. we was abroad once and my eldest son had been 'jumped' on by a gang while he was walking home from work, they broke his cheek bone and jaw.  the other kids kept it from us, but the whole of the last week of our holiday I had a feeling something was not right.

[Kobione]

Another slight advantage for us in where we live, Leon, might be a bit 'remote' but we don't have to worry about neighbours, or people cruising past, although we are suitably insured.

 

Glad things were OK when you got home, I think the precautions you took were sensible.

[Leon]

Cheers peoples, I have a good set of neighbours, 2 of them have been friends for well over 15 years, the NO facebook ect is just common sense really, a friend up the road advertise their house empty every time they go away??

 

anyways back to sifting through pictures to bore you all with

[NannyFerret]

I think you are very sensible, Mr W.

I don't post anything about me being away or even when I go out for a few hours, on Facebook.

I have a niece who posts just about everything, including where she is going, where she is when she is out etc. etc. It's an open invitation to burglars as far as I'm concerned.
I keep to private messaging  when I am away and just post my photo's as normal on the forum.

My daughters live close by and my oldest one comes  in and out of the house regularly.
She opens the back door for a while and makes sure all my post is through the door properly and generally makes it look as if someone is here.
I also have a solar lamp on my window sill and a set of coloured solar lights around my ferret shed which come on just after dusk. A cheap deterrent, but everythings helps, doesn't it?
Anyway, Looking forward to seeing your pics.