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Everybody needs good neighbours
Jun. 17th, 2006 10:37 amThe visa situation is now approaching crisis point and I don't want to talk about it. What I would like to talk about is our new neighbours.
I was mildly perturbed to return to the house on Wednesday to find my gate had been combination-locked shut. We had seen them working on the fence the day before, but we assumed they were mending it. Quite apart from anything else, it's the most ineffectual lock in the world, as people can now turn the corner to the shared entrance and invade their property that way (as we have to, now that our entrance is inaccessible).
And this morning, we were woken up to the soundtrack for the terminally stupid, commerical rap. After feeling the floor vibrating in the bathroom and kitchen, we went down to ask them to turn it down to a normal, human level below a thousand decibels or so. The door was answered by a man with a French accent and shorts. And nothing else.
I thought that this only happened in halls.
I was mildly perturbed to return to the house on Wednesday to find my gate had been combination-locked shut. We had seen them working on the fence the day before, but we assumed they were mending it. Quite apart from anything else, it's the most ineffectual lock in the world, as people can now turn the corner to the shared entrance and invade their property that way (as we have to, now that our entrance is inaccessible).
And this morning, we were woken up to the soundtrack for the terminally stupid, commerical rap. After feeling the floor vibrating in the bathroom and kitchen, we went down to ask them to turn it down to a normal, human level below a thousand decibels or so. The door was answered by a man with a French accent and shorts. And nothing else.
I thought that this only happened in halls.
