Thankfully today, unlike the message in 1940, careless talk doesn’t costs lives. Occasionally there is violence in burglary, but in the main the impact of burglary is more psychological than physical.

Some victims shiver at the remembrance, others smile ruefully, but underneath the fear and embarrassment there is a deep revulsion and anger. Some person crept through your home, took things that marked the passage of your life and sold them on without a thought to their real value.

Worse still, if the cause of the loss was laziness or lack of care on your part, then make sure from this hour and this day that it will not happen again. You will ensure that in future when you are chatting with friends and acquaintances, and the subjects under discussion are private, confidential and potentially risky you will make absolutely certain that the persons to whom you are talking are the only ones in the circuit. It’s a hard lesson to learn so let’s look at the reminder list of dos and don’ts.