Promise and stuff

Cross my heart

Not a breast reference.

It’s been mentioned by a couple of people now – so I’ll update the survey question thingy this week sometime. Honestly. I will. I even have two questions to put, so I’ve got a backup. Suggestions for future questions always welcome!

BOOBIES!

That was a breast reference.

Community spirit

Some good news here. I don’t think I mentioned this on my blog, but some new guy moved in a couple of streets over roughly a month ago. And he likes his stereo. He was playing it 7 days a week, almost 24/7. I’m several hundred yards away from him, and it sounded like someone was sat outside my house with a boy racer stereo booming out of a car.

Apparently after the first weekend, one or two neighbours asked – politely – if he’d be kind enough to not play it at 3am. This he duly did. But still had it cranked from about 8am to midnight… and all weekend. Including putting his speakers out of the windows so eveyone could listen to his crap.

The police, for some reason, couldn’t do anything. I don’t know why – I’ve heard the details third hand.

Steve, my nice neighbour, was chatting to the guy in the newsagent and mentioned that he’d not heard it for a few days. It turns out that Noise Boy opened the door to around 20 people the other evening. They weren’t as polite as they had been the first time. In fact, three of them pinned him to the floor and told him in no uncertain terms what would happen to him and his property if he didn’t turn the stereo down.

Blow me, but it worked. Isn’t it nice to see neighbours banding together and watching out for one another?