Neighbours, who will be enxt and a late photo-mag

30 September

We have a subscription to Amateur Photography and normally our copy arrives on Saturday morning. It didn’t arrive last Saturday though. The reason for that is down Mark, the guy lives (lived?) above us. He had so many unsavoury people visit him, that it was making life rather iffy for the rest of us. Add to that police raids on his flat and the fights breaking out up there and threats one of the others, the council decided that they would fit new locks to our block doors so that security would be improved.

They also went for an eviction order for Mark. We don’t know if has been granted yet but we’ve seen him once in the last four weeks, so maybe it has been granted. Thing is, we’ve always got on OK with Mark himself. He always used to stand and chat a while when we met him outside on the road side. However, that last time we saw him, he had face like thunder and although he said, ‘Hello Janet,’ he didn’t stop and chat.

As I said, we got OK with him, but we will also be pleased if he has gone because there will be less unpredictability in the block. There is of course the old saying, ‘Better the devil you know than the one you don’t know.’ That is now on our minds. The tenancy of these flats are divided into two separate types. The ground floor are ‘supported;’ we have pull cords in every room to call for help from the warden in the sheltered complex just along the road. The flats up stairs are general purpose flats, and anyone who doesn’t need support can have those. That means we could end up with another difficult person move in above us. We have to wait and see now.

What has all this got to do with the photo-mag that should have been here on Saturday? Well, the block door is unlocked during the day and locked later in the evening. At the moment we have been probably leaning a wee bit too much on Sandra (she lives opposite Mark,) to open up as she goes off to work. It looks like she have to work on Saturday cos the door was locked when the posty arrived. How about that then … all this cos of locked a locked door. Writers please take note.

Today’s photos … 

Kile with my old Sony A350 and Tamron 18-270 lens.

And our friend the Sage has been in touch again …

A Jewish daughter says to her mother, "I'm divorcing Nathan." All he wants is sex, sex and more sex.
My vagina is now the size of a 50-cent piece when it used to be the size of a 5 cent piece."
Her mother says …..

"You're married to a multi-millionaire businessman! You live in an 8 bedroom mansion! You drive a $250,000 Ferrari! You get $2,000 a week allowance! You take 6 vacations a year and you want to throw all that away ...
Over 45 cents !!!!?"

NOW THAT'S A JEWISH MOTHER !