Neighbours From Hell
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I’m a guest of the rather wonderful Cate Master’s today. This is a special interview with lots of new information and a giveaway, so go check her blog out at: http://catemasters.blogspot.com.
We have new neighbours. They’ve moved into the adjoining house and have made their presence felt. As a result, I’m not their biggest fan.
Thankfully they are only renting. The bloke who bought the house to develop it had it up for sale, but with the credit crunch, the sign changed from FOR SALE to TO LET a couple of months ago.
The new family – two adults, 1 YA, 2 kids – moved their furniture in by hand in a series of cars last Friday – at MIDNIGHT. Outside my window were God only knows how many people, arguing over the best way to carry the wardrobe in the door. What was wrong with the furniture already in the house is beyond me, but they obviously need the storage. I lay unable to sleep and listened to them clattering up the stairs and walls, loud chattering, and music blaring. Wonderful.
The other day I came home from work and they’d tipped a huge bucket of white paint over part of the front of their garden, the pavement outside their house and onto the street. The kids and family pets got it all over their feet and dragged it up our driveway, and the cars have left tyre marks up and down the road. They’ve showed no sign of cleaning it up. Wonderful.
Every night, late at night, cars come and go from their house. They aren’t quiet people either and I’ve been woken up after midnight a couple of times in the last week alone. Last night they were renovating; hammers, shouting, kids screaming – until way after 11pm at night. Wonderful.
They are the neighbours from hell.
If you found yourself nodding in agreement as you read the last passage, there’s a chance you might be racist. You see, the new neighbours are Pakistani, and mentioning this issue has become a bit of a faux pas for some people in my street.
“Don’t say Pakistani out loud” or “Don’t mention them they might hear you” – I don’t like them for the reasons detailed above, NOT because they’re Pakistani.
I don’t like them because they’ve pissed me off by being anti-social, NOT because they’re non-white.
I don’t like them because they are only renting the property whereas I OWN my home, and that means they don’t have the right to treat the street like a dumping ground for toxins, NOT because their homeland sponsors terrorism.
There. Said it.
Over at the day job I had a good day managing to beat two major deadlines with my workload. Tired when I got home, though, but Gail made a terrific dish of tortellini with garlic bread for dinner, which perked me up.
In order to have bookmarks for my STELLA promotion, I ordered a bunch of cards from the same place I got my flyers and other material. They were much wider than I anticipated, though, so I spent last night creating a new one with two images down its length, and will cut them up using a guillotine before distributing.
This took me much longer than I intended, though, because merging the two images dropped the resolution to the point the bookmarks looked awful. I got it done eventually, but as I said, it took me ages to get it right.
Today, I have to finish up an article for a blog tour spot next week, post more promo material, polish BRIEFS, and if possible, get some work down on BACCARA BURNING. I’m meeting a friend tonight after work so won’t have time to do anything else.
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June 18th, 2009 at 9:35 am
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June 18th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Do you have city codes? Here, it’s very clear in the city codes that noise, music, and renovation can only be done within certain hours on certain days, and anything outside that is fined. Of course, you have to report it. Check and see what the city code is — Leith might have different codes than Edinburgh proper.