Christmas week and scams

With Christmas in the middle of this week we are rushing around selling the last of our Xmas trees and decorations.
Its sad to say that Christmas brings out the worse in some people, and other are of full of good cheer.
We seem to have been the target along with other garden centres of a local scam where people have been posing as a local business then passing fraudulent cheques. They appear to have been targeting the New Forest area and scamming goods to the value of £200. This leads to us having to put further controls on legitimate trade customers just because of a minority section of the public.
Fortunately we have a good security system so at least we can help the police with their investigations.
Anyhow away with the bad the feelings and in with the good.
Last week we were able to help a customer who feel very ill onsite with getting the emergancy services here quickly. We had an ambulance here fairly quickly but more excitiement came when the air ambulance landed on our neighbours front lawn much to their amazement.
It was good to hear that the casulty is now making a speedy recovery having had an operation as soon as he got to the hospital. It is great when people come back and let us know what is going on