After some of the comments on here made me feel very guilty and that the items hadn’t been put out to be taken. I decided to visit the house, I knocked on the door but no one answered it.
I had written a note in the event of no one being home and l posted it through the letter box. It contained an explanation and my mobile phone number.
As l arrived back home, my mobile phone rang and it was a man from the house where l took the items from outside near the path.
He said, he was thrilled l had taken them as he was getting rid of duplicate garden items he’d got.
I said, l was thrilled with the items and asked him if he would like some of my hens eggs. ‘Yes Please’ that would be so lovely’.
I said, l would bring them straight away and leave them by his back gate.
This l did and as l walked away, he came out with a little sign he’d made, inviting people to take items that remained.
He had told me his name when he rang me and it was a name that was familiar to me.
‘Did you teach at school in so and so place?’ I asked.
‘Yes, l did’, he replied. He had taught some of my children!
What a small world and l can sleep easy tonight!