Lights out..

[Scrumpy]

There seems to be a lot of stealing of other peoples Christmas decorations this year..

 Thieves are boldly walking onto another's property and stealing fully decorated Christmas trees..
Lights... Inflated characters... Reindeers etc;
The popular this year for thieves is the Nutcracker (soldiers).. 
 These are sought after by those who will pay for anything .. Knowingly to  be stolen..

A bit like those wanting a certain breed of dog.... and will pay for them regardless of where they have come from and being someone's beloved pet..

I used to walk around this area with my grandchildren .. early evening .. to see all the decorations and bright lights at Christmastime .. They loved it and got very excited....
  I see very few these days... So , so sad..
Is this yet another tradition that is slowly being taken away from us.. ?

I do not decorate outside of my house.. 

[klondike]

It is sad but have you seen the price of trees? I walked past B&Q the other day and they had a small, almost certainly unrooted, tree outside £60. I often see a scruffy looking bugger along the river path with a trolley full of various plants. The river path runs very close to B&Q ....

[JBR]

Theft appears to be on the increase.
No connection to Rachel Thieves, I suppose?

[Ashy]

I'm afraid that the society we once knew is being taken from us. We are descending into a low trust society, without the policing that there once was. It's gradually becoming the wild west.

[Alex]

My lad  bought a real tree yesterday from a pop up shop that appears every Christmas, he paid £40 which he said is about average.   I've got a fartin little artificial tree that I bought last year from a garden centre, I need to get motivated

[Michael Rolls]

There are real scum around. A grave near Veronica's holds a man who died in his fourties'. Three  Christmases ago his two little girls planted little Christmas trees around his grave - and some swine stole them

[Alex]

That's cruel, have people no conscience ?

[Michael Rolls]

Can't get my head round how any bastard could be so callous

[JBR]

There are real scum around. A grave near Veronica's holds a man who died in his fourties'. Three  Christmases ago his two little girls planted little Christmas trees around his grave - and some swine stole them

A disgusting act.  Wen ah wer a lad, we could trust the vast majority of people to be at least relatively honest, and such an act would attract general condemnation.
Unfortunately, these days, many young people would be rolling in laughter.  Total lack of respect.