It soon transpired that a number of sheds had been broken into and the contents either taken or scattered around on the ground. Initial thoughts of shock, horror soon gave way to slight relief that it could have been a lot worse. As we see no point in padlocking the shed ours was open but undamaged and the philosophy of not leaving anything of great value or irreplaceable down there proved to be fortuitous too. The main thing of value that was taken was the unopened bag of manure and that was later discovered in the cemetery along with other bags of compost and a couple of wheelbarrows.
The shed shelf had been pretty much cleared out but as it's now almost the end of the season most of the bottles and containers were less than half-full.
The discarded drawer had been cleared out but the only things of any slight value were four golf balls miss-hit onto our allotment from the nearby park, and some cigarette lighters used for starting bonfires that had been purchased from Poundland about five years ago.
Once tidied up the shed did look a little sparse but at least no damage had been done and nothing irreplaceable, or of significant value, was missing.
The canes had been moved around a bit but it was difficult to judge if any had been taken. As a precaution we have taken the more expensive long canes home.
Some of the more expensive and useful stolen items were disovered that morning in the cemetery up a quiet corner!
And at least the produce hadn't been touched.