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Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 11 January 2008

Jennifer Woolfendon, left, and Guardian columnist friend Michele Hanson

Thieves steal family heirloom pot

GUARDIAN columnist Michele Hanson, from Tufnel Park, regularly writes about the life and mishaps of her good friend and former Islington neighbour “Rosemary”.
But this week Rosemary (real name Jennifer Woolfendon) was particularly upset after thieves stole a family heirloom, a 100-year-old stoneware garden pot, from her front garden in Bartholomew Villas, Kentish Town.
Jennifer, a retired bereavement councillor at Holloway prison, said: “They first tipped out all the flowers and then made off with the pot, which was pretty heavy to carry. I was extremely upset.”
Michele, who lives in Lady Margaret Road, has featured the incident in her column.
“I can understand Jennifer’s distress,” she said. “Theft and vandalism is rife everywhere these days. They even slash the heads off the daffodils in Whittington Park in the spring. I go along and put them in water.
“There’s no respect for anything.”

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