7th May, 2010

We moved into our house just over three years ago and last weekend we decided it was time to give one of the rooms a thorough clear up. Ironically it is a room with a triple locking metal door and there is a huge safe inside it too. Ironically, neither of these had helped us much when, three months after we had arrived at our new house, a burglar climbed through an upstairs window, into our bedroom, and removed practically every item of jewellery Sophie owned which for some reason we had decided to store there! Anyway, tucked behind one of the shelves in the strong room, Sophie found a little red box and opening it up discovered inside the most enormous ruby ring, a ruby pendant and a pearl and diamond brooch. At a quick glance we estimated it was about £20,000 of jewellery! Unreal eh. I mean the people we bought the house from left behind the usual collection of grubby loo seats and I was excited once to find an old racing bike suspended from the rafters of a ramshackle shed, so there have been rich pickings, but this really was an unexpected treat. Oh don’t worry. We rang our predecessors up and reunited them with their nick nacks. Very sweetly they came round with a magnum of Chateau Meaume 2004. Wow.