Zimbabwebound

I have started to play golf with a few church friends on a Saturday morning (tee off is at 7am).  Before packing the clubs into the car I thought I would take a quick wander outside just to see if anything else had gone missing from the night before (as stuff had gone missing the previous Friday night).  I shouldn’t have been surprised … but even more stuff had gone missing … this time it was the last 2 of the old tires, two jerry cans full of petrol, two empty jerry cans as well as four 50kg bags of cement.  This time we knew that this loot couldn’t have been thrown over the fence … I would pay a guy (or girl) a lot of money if they could through a 50 kg bag of cement over our security wall … it’s highly improbable if not impossible.  This confirmed our suspicions that either our gardener was stealing this stuff or someone, some how had gotten their hands on our security gate key.

We questioned our gardener again and of course nothing was found out … we were at a loss.  The whole weekend was on the internet trying to find out how to change our gate remote codes so that whoever was getting in (or out) could not do so again.  It wasn’t until Wednesday afternoon that I could get someone out to teach me how to change the remote codes … so it is all changed now and we are eager to see if they come in again on the Friday to take more stuff.

The challenges started at the beginning of last week.  We live in a VERY well secured property with a large stone wall; electric fence on top of the wall as well as a large electric gate (which is the only way into the property).  As we felt secure in this “compound” we did not feel obliged to lock up all of our fuel jerry cans, bags of cement and various other nick nacks that we have accumulated over our time here in Zim which we stored under our opened thatched carport.  We also had four spare tires and two flat trailer wheels sitting under this shelter as well.

It was on the weekend before last that both Jodi and I noticed various things not being where we saw them last … we both just put it down to our gardener putting them away.  It wasn’t until the Tuesday that we put two and two together and realised that a whole heap of stuff was missing.  As we totalled things up we found that 2 of the 4 spare wheels were nowhere to be found along with 2 metal jerry cans, 2 plastic jerry cans as well as the 2 wheels from the trailer.  We also deduced it would have had to have happened on Friday night.  We questioned our gardener and maid about these things but didn’t know anything about it.

We called the police and due to fuel shortages had to go pick them up from their station as well as drop them back off after their investigation.  Of course nothing was uncovered and they left with the assumption that it was someone (I am thinking the bionic man) jumping over our HUGE electrified fence and then throwing all the items over and then, they themselves (using there bionic abilities) jumping back over the fence.  We however thought that it was either an inside job or someone had taken a copy of our gate remote … VERY interesting.

I know that I haven’t blogged for the last week and a bit and I am sorry … it has been a rough couple of weeks with loads of “challenging” things happening.  I will let you guys inside our lives over the next couple of days and fill you in on the things that have been happening.