Be assured my ear was well bent!
Without a doubt they know me, or at least know of me in the village but they have a job to do so blah blah blah, accept the earache, give the appologies, grovel grovel, promise never to say a single word aginst Macron etc etc

and creep away with tail between legs cursing cos there are a couple of other frames that i would like to get but I daren't go back now as they will not let me off lightly a second time!
As it is, i actually asked if i could finish taking the image that the camera was set up for when they collared me.....The reaction was an extremely firm "NO"
I had to smirk whilst packing away under their supervision ( three of 'em) as I already had said image along with the other two exposed
I'm rather delighted that i got a result from all three