Due to the crappy weather not much has been going on in the Cloggy household over the last few days. Blog subject matter was beginning to get pretty thin ..... until this afternoon that is.

At precisely 15.10 I heard an almighty crash from the front of the house. I ran out of the kitchen to the front door to find  my mailbox had been uprooted and lying in the middle of the lavender. Tree carnage was everywhere with no obvious reason as to what had occurred. I walked into the lane and just caught sight of a tractor and trailer going like a bat out of hell shedding branches, leaves and bits of mailbox. The tractor then literally performed a handbrake turn and managed to disappear into the field at the end of the lane.

"Thats something you don't see everyday", I thought and then, me being me, went back inside to get my camera so I could record the event. I took photo's of everything and then walked down to the field and took photo's of the now driver-less tractor and trailer with its newly acquired leafy decorations.

When I returned to the scene of the accident I noticed that the neighbours mailbox and trees had also suffered. I knocked on his door and explained what had happened. He thought at first it must of been one of the many farming contractors who are very busy at the moment but after a few phone calls and a bit of in depth Twente style investigation it was discovered that the demon tractor driving offender was actually the German guy who lives at the end of the lane.

Now ...... our neighbour is very laid back, so much so that most of the time its difficult to tell whether he has a pulse or not. But on discovering the identity of the tree and mailbox molester he blew a gasket. Apparently there has been a long running feud between them. Mainly because the German dude drives too fast in the lane and keeps running over chickens.

The Police were called and duly arrived. (Remember this is a sleepy farming community so acts of tractor mishandling are taken very seriously)

Oldest Baby Cloggy had just come home. Not knowing what had just happened, he saw the arrival of the Police van and immediately 'fessed up' that he had been stopped, whilst riding his bicycle home from a party a while back, and that he had been breathalyzed but had been let off with a warning. "HONEST MUM!" (I'll be speaking to the boy about that little incident later this evening!)

The long and short of the story is this; 

- German Dude denied all knowledge of the accident and had managed to hide all of the incriminating evidence before the police arrived.
 - The Police took copies of ALL of my photograph's and my statement.
- My immediate neighbour has lodged a formal complaint. (That's his Mrs. in the photo)

The feud continues .....

Why did I call this article "Hot Fuzz"? .......  Cause the investigating Policeman was the hottest young-man in a uniform I have seen since the movie 'Top Gun' was released!