Got a phonecall half 7 Wednesday morning asking who was last out of the office Tuesday night because the shutter was lying open, we came to the conclusion that maybe some site guys had been in the office but hadn't closed the shutter properly so that was ok, end of phonecall. Five mins later I get another phonecall, can I ring the police because we've been broken into and can I get down to work ASAP.

Now luckily enough I live two mins drive from work, I usually walk to work but on Wednesday I drove to work to make it easier and quicker. I rang the police while I was standing in my bedroom still in my Eeyore jammies! I wasn't even there but I still had to ring the police and report the break-in, how silly is that when there are four men standing outside the office waiting on me to appear.

I arrived before the police and had a nosy round but was careful not to touch anything.

They had broken windows down the side of the building and gained access through a top floor office, they made a bit of a mess in that office because there was a big bookshelf against the windows there but after that things get a little strange. Only three offices were actually messed about, the MD's, the other Bosses, and mine. The only thing missing from the upstairs is a laptop, and a dictaphone. Nothing else. My filing cabinet was lying wide open with two petty cash boxes sitting, a cheque book sitting on my desk with the bosses signature on a couple bits of paper and mine as well so they could've nicked the cheque book and forged the signatures but they didn't, a box of brand new mobiles was sitting under my desk which they pulled out and obviously looked in because they were lying on the floor but they didn't touch them at all. Why they didn't lift them I don't know.

Another strange thing they did was leave a coffee jar on my desk. We think it came from the MD's office but we weren't sure, it got dusted for fingerprints and some were found. Something else they could've nicked but didn't was a lot of alcohol that the MD keeps in his office incase he needs to take a present to someone, they moved the bottles, touched them without gloves, so more fingerprints, but they didn't take them! Why not?!

After being upstairs they went downstairs down the back way and trashed the store a bit as they went but if they really wanted to make a mess they could've done a better job, what they did was a bit useless really. For some reason the lifted the heaviest bit of equipement we had in the store and stole it, we don't see any logic in that because it weighs quite a lot and would take at least two men to lift it but they took the time to lift it and put it in the van they stole from us also. We had a van parked in the storebecause we aren't using it much at the mo.

Wednesday was a complete and utter nightmare.

The van was recovered, very little damage done to it actually which we weren't expecting, we thought we'd either never see it again or else have it back burned out.

Definately not a good week.