AIBU to be a bit freaked out by the random pork pie in my garden?

[BananaHammock23]

That's it really.

My DP and I have been away for the night and when we returned yesterday, I checked the back garden (which gated and locked, away from the road in a quiet residential area) and was a bit taken aback by what I found...

Our plant pots were strewn across the patio and there was a solitary pork pie, just sitting there.

So as not to drip feed, I'm a bit freaked out because (this will sound strange...) we lost my Great Grandmother on Christmas Eve and she absolutely adored pork pies. So much so that when she died we scattered a few on the coffin instead of roses - don't judge us for this. We're otherwise quite normal. Anyway.

AIBU to be a bit freaked out by this random pork pie? Where did it come from? It looks quite fancy, maybe an artisan pork pie? It's a small one, but way to heavy for a cat. Why is there a pork pie in my garden?

Blu - cracking up about the bones in the fireplace! I'm a mess about a pork pie. I think I would have keeled over if I'd found a pile of bones in the fireplace!

Thanks for all your lovely replies about my gran – she was a bloody good egg. I just can't understand why she felt the need to vandalise my garden while sending down a pork pie?

My DP is currently wandering round the house 'talking' to gran, which is quite funny. She's CONVINCED the pork pie is a message of some kind

I'd like to ask my children to drop (full) gin bottles on my coffin - but I know they would regard it as a criminal waste

That's because you've raised them right, magi!

Am I the only one thinking the real question here is whether you're going to eat the pork pie or not?

doje

No I too was wondering this

Are there teeth marks in the pork pie? Or is it whole?

ponders

Badger? Having seen one pushing off a bin lid (one of the old black ones) AND the brick holding the lid down I would have thought a few plant pots would be easy enough for one to disturb while carrying around a pork pie.

Chuckling at the visual on Doggy's doggy!

A packet of ham has ended up at my back door twice, both after "islamic" events such as 7/7 etc. As we are muslims i have assumed that one of the neighbours has decided to make a statement that way, and when I opened your thread I thought something similar might be going on, but I guess not! Strange indeed!

A packet of ham?

As for the pork pie I'm going for the wildlife explanation.

But seriously Madmum, a packet of ham? What a strange person thatust have been.

MadMum what is wrong with people??? Good lord.

Yes, as strange as it is it happened. Neighbours are very naice and may have felt that this was the non confrontational method of showing their disdain towards "my" people lol!

I love a good pork pie. Sadly I have renounced them for good due to diet. Your family sounds hilarious (in a good way). I love tales of upset vicars. It was a celestial sign of your GM's presence- she sounds great.

I have to say you have disappointing unexplained phenomena round your way. In a world where there are unexplained rains of fish, frogs and blood, a rain of pork pie must leave you feeling a bit short-changed.

How strange. A couple of weeks ago I found a piece of cheese and a pickled onion on a cocktail stick beside my car on the drive, no idea where that came from

I'm now wondering if your neighbours were entertaining over the weekend. Maybe a rowdy guest lobbed a pork pie over the fence and disturbed your pots?

fox. Brought it's own pork pie, decided to have a dig around in your pots for worms etc, something scared it off pie-less poor thing.

I'd go for fox as the most likely culprit. They're pretty good at scaling fences. The one that used to visit our road had a bit of a shoe fetish. Woe betide anyone foolish enough to leave a pair of muddy boots outside the door. You never knew whose garden they would end up in.

Hang on a minute all those saying this is probably an animal related pork pie incident! How come if an animal brought it then they didn't eat it? Hmm. Don't wish to be alarmist OP but I've studied the photographic evidence and that pork pie looks placed to me.

It's possible you live next door to the Mumsnetter whose DH ate a fat ball, thinking it was an artisan scotch egg? Maybe he found a pork pie in the fridge and thought it a trick to make him the laughing stock of Mumsnet again, so put it out for the birds where it belonged ...

Perhaps a crow dropped it, the plant pots cushioned it sufficiently to not break it and as a consequence the pots got scattered.

Either that or it's definitely a ghost.

What you've got there is some kind of Beast of Bodmin type on the prowl.

The monster of Melton Mowbray

Roar at the monster of Melton Mowbray!