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Showing posts with label city life. Show all posts

Wednesday 6 October 2021

City Life -- What do we want in a next door neighbour?

The Ideal Neighbour

-- never whistles
-- has a dog who doesn't bark
-- has a cute kid or two who wave over the fence but never shriek 
-- grows foliage in his garden 
-- has no surveillance cameras 
-- doesn't put an officious Neighbourhood Watch sign in the window 
-- keeps to himself which lives he thinks matter
-- doesn't put election signs on the lawn
-- waters the lawn
-- hates loud music
-- thinks "hip-hop" is what robins do on the lawn after he waters it
-- possesses no leaf blower, chainsaw or drill
-- has a good high hedge
-- doesn't keep saying we should get together
-- doesn't move away
-- continues never to whistle 



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