Saturday, August 7, 2010

Everybody needs good neighbours

I'm pretty sure our neighbour is trying to spy on us.

I have good reason. He tells our landlord that our house is 'lit up like a Christmas tree at all hours of the night', and has suggested "jokingly" that if we clear a little more of the shrubbery that separates our houses, he can 'keep an eye on the place'.

Furthermore, he's clearing everything on his side of the fence. It's creeping me out.

There is a gap between the shed and the courtyard lattice, which is about a metre from the edge of our property. It is now virtually clear. This is in view of my bathroom and my back door.

My bathroom windows are visually impenetrable from the outside, so it's okay, but it's the principle. (Hurrumph!)


In other news regarding my neighbourhood; Someone likes hanging up chip packets on our gate, and there are expletives in yellow chalk on the pavement. Fun.

I hope there's a more interesting story behind that: Something disembodied wrote on the pavement in yellow chalk, haunting the child as he ate his salt and vinegar chips. Really, the chips were not his, but he had claimed them from the trembling hands of the girl with the hook to her nose. The girl had a guardian spirit, and this was it. Its methods were not like those you would think. Poetic justice has no place here - only hard words in soft chalk.

If only.

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