Category: Community bulletin board

1. A child’s wooden highchair with washable pvc seat and tray. It has two parts and separated makes a
little table and chair.

A Wedding ring has been lost in Thame over the past week. It has been reported to the police and the town hall.

Anyone with any information, please contact: editor@thame.net who will pass on any information.

THOMLEY ACTIVITY CENTRE, Worminghall, nr Thame: We are currently looking for a full-time Senior Playworker. salary is

MECHANICAL Service Engineer, Pipefitter. Must have previous experience of gas welding & pipe fitting.

06/01/2012

THIS evening, Friday December 2, just as it was getting dark, there was a ring at the door. My wife answered and a young man, festooned in ?ID?, was there asking for donations for deaf children. My wife declined but in a reasonable way – none of us is unsympathetic to such a cause.

Possibly 90 minutes later there was another ring at the door. I answered. Again there was a young man, festooned in ?ID? asking for donations for deaf children. I told him that we had declined this request not long before. He left.

Then, about 7.30 or a little after, there was a third ring at the door. This time two young men stood there, asking for donations for deaf children. One of them was the man whom I saw earlier. My wife who joined me at the door identified him as the same man to whom she spoke first.

It was dark. We are in our seventies and, thank goodness, we have each other. It could have been frightening.

Why three times? Why the same house? Were they genuine?

They might have been.

The last time we answered the door I was rather firm ? to put it mildly ? about their persistence. They left.

I thought it worth alerting the police, via 101. I received a swift and sympathetic response.

An hour later there was another ring at the door. This time it was a young Police Community Support Officer.

I hope I may quote his name. He was Chris Hollis. And he was very reassuring.

I do hope that other old people are not similarly troubled by such calls. I wonder whether any respectable charity could encourage this kind of practice. Unfortunately even I, an ex-journalist, did not, in the suddenness of the moment, take down the exact details and address of the charity, if it was indeed that.

Which indicates how such approaches can put people off their balance. Especially, maybe, old ? and vulnerable – people.

Norman Brand

to play Handel etc. Call John on: 01844 213742

WANTED: Ongoing supplier of compost ? 1 tonne bags; local to East Oxon Thame/Bicester sort of area

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