New Neighbours

We have now lived here in our new house for nearly eight months and so far we have had no trouble whatsoever with the neighbours, except perhaps for the only very slightly irritating behaviour of girls in three student houses. Having said that though it was only poor parking and a couple of occurrences of leaving rubbish bins in the wrong place, all very minor and now not a problem.

So, having settled down to quite rural tranquillity I was shaken out of my peaceful slumbers at around 2am by a terrible row outside the house. By the time I had struggled out of bed and got to a window to investigate, without waking my slumbering partner [her wrath is legendary] I was unable to spot the rowdy villains so crept back into bed. By this time however I was suffering badly with a painful shoulder and wasn't able to get back to sleep readily so when the commotion started again outside I was able to get downstairs and get to the door before the row had stopped.

Wrenching the door open ready to demand a quite night, having not fully recovered yet from the change from British Summer Time to GMT, I was confronted by the noisy pair as they fled across the green in front of the house. The smaller member of the noisy duo was just dashing up to and past a nearby car pursued by her much larger male friend into the area in front of another terrace of houses where their noisy row started over again and as lights started to switch on in the distance I decided that bed was becoming and it was time to ignore these irritating neighbours and get some sleep.

However, I did manage to get a photograph of the pair and will be seeking an ASBO if they play up again outside our house!

Photo courtesy of : moonlightblue.co.uk

Mission Accomplished!

Well, it took six months of searching, disagreeing, agreeing, changing minds, negotiating and finally buying! But, we did it in the end and moved back to Chichester after an absence of about 15 years (apart from my working time there) and a welcome return it has been too.

We have a new house which does meet almost all V's specification in that we can walk into town, there is a bus route near by and there are two bathrooms! There are some issues over roominess but otherwise its good. Our initial fears about the rather large and messy Scots Pine have now been overcome as it does act as a nice sound proofing barrier from the houses just across from us and it is also a home to several varieties of wild birds that I have managed to attract with a supply of feed suspended from its branches. As a bonus we have a nice green in front of the house and thus no parking of cars which here is a real nightmare!

Each house has at least a parking space and most have a space PLUS a garage yet despite this most people seem to be leaving their cars in front of their houses ...

I watched the garden people destroy our garden and then reconstruct it, although I confess we remained unconvinced that it would ever meet our expectations. But I have to say that looking at it now it has certainly come on a great deal. The grass is a lawn once more and I am compelled each week (or more ) to stagger about behind the flymo keeping it lush. All the flower beds are planted, there are pots of fragrant geraniums and a border of lavender plants that will flood the garden with perfume. All in all it's looking good.


So the garden went from "rough" to even rougher! and then to this!! A place to sit in, relax and even hide in a shed! ... Green tranquillity... so many scented plants and herbs make this our own Sensory garden.


OK, it's back to the weeding for me now and some contemplation about "The One Show" on BBC TV.... watch this space as I so often say!