Someone hanging around the house at night.

italodisco wrote: »

Putting all the jokes aside, you would want to increase your security IE some halogen lights for a start.
Personally I don't see anything to joke about, with the amount of rural robberies being committed these days, in particular by the 'culture boss' lot it would be wise to be careful.

And a word to the wise, in the unfortunate event that you are confronted by a trespasser and you end up using force, be it light or extreme, make sure when the gardai turn up that you make it very clear to them that before you laid a hand on anyone that they clearly roared at you ' I'll kill ya' or 'ill stab ya in the chest'.

That way you're covered with self defense.

The biggest mistake though is chasing after someone and attacking them, that's when the self defence line becomes useless, let them run off.

Malayalam wrote: »

You've got great suggestions here. The flour/sand one is the cheapest, while waiting to get the lights and camera that come on at activity. Borrowing someone's big barky dog is another possibility...let them roam the night on a long chain for a while and see what that throws up. A friend of mine also had an old harmless man wandering around and peeking in her windows at night; he was just senile and living in the past.

But it might not be anyone. I live very remote, and often alone as my husband sometimes works away. So far this year at night I have been visited by hedgehogs, hares, wild cats, badgers, foxes, pine martens, minks, wild goats, wandering ewes and lambs, lost bullocks and a small herd of sitka deer that are leaving their hoof marks all over the place - and that's only the critters I know of, there could be more. They are all quite noisy in their own different ways. This place is far busier by night than it ever is in the day!