Lots of things have happened of late, but let’s start with the latest first. At roughly 6.00pm today there was a really loud banging on the door. I went thinking that it was my friends who only left a few minutes earlier who had forgotten something.

Outside there was a bloke that I didn’t know looking terrified with a bit of 2 by 4 in his hand and a one eyed dog. (I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried, could I?) He said that some lads who were driving around illegally on motorbikes had punched him and attacked him, and could I call the police. Outside my garden there was another much younger fitter looking lad shouting that he had attacked him as he was the man that had burgled my house. You know how sometimes you make an instant judgement on someone, I just had a gut feeling that the lad on the street was lying, too cocky by half. So I called the police, but refused to let the man into the house, but kept an eye on him while he was in my garden. I wasn’t letting him in as the girls were still here and I have only just been burgled and I really didn’t need someone else coming in to see what had been replaced…

So the police talk to him and it was obvious that he was telling the truth, so they turn up and take him home. Problem is that I am now very clearly marked out in the area, everyone was standing and watching. No one else helping though, I noted. I hope that I can move soon. I still have no back door by the way.

On the positive side, the money from Jen’s house should be sorted soon, and then I can think about moving. I cannot wait now, it is getting like a demilitarised zone around here these days.