Our house was burgled as we watched The Fall

Caroline and I were watching The Fall in our front room when the intruder entered our house. Not great timing on his part, considering The Fall is a BBC drama series about a serial killer who breaks into people’s homes, then tortures and murders them.

Thankfully, we never actually set eyes on him. We only discovered we’d been burgled when we returned to the kitchen to load the dishwasher and found various items missing. But still. Caroline was probably more upset than she would have been if we’d been watching Eat, Pray, Love — which we wouldn’t have been, obviously, because it’s complete drek.

I was up most of the night trying to catch the bugger. It quickly became clear that the only things he’d stolen were Apple products — a MacBook Air, a MacBook, an iPad 1, an iPad 2, two iPods and my iPhone. And if you think that’s a lot of Apple devices for one household, I count myself lucky that he didn’t get my MacBook Pro, my wife’s iPhone or my son’s iPad Mini, all of which were with us in the sitting room.