Daylight Robbery.

Dearly Beloved and I have always been quite lucky with our neighbours. We live at the end of a row of terraces and everyone keeps themselves to themselves, nobody is particularly noisy and we all respect each other's parking. We always say hello and send each other Christmas cards but that's as far as it goes. However this idyllic state of affairs has taken a nasty turn which will require swift and merciless retaliation. The next door neighbours have stolen our front door.

Well it's not our front door exactly but it might as well have been. You may remember my post from a couple of weeks ago saying that we needed a new front door. Dearly beloved and I did a little looking around and found one that we both liked so I filed it away in the back of my memory to go and buy when funds allowed. I was shocked and dismayed to leave the house two days later to find workman fitting the exact same door to my neighbour's house, sly buggers they are. This is actually a triple whammy for us as Dearly Beloved and I will have to find another door we both like which won't be easy. It looks very smart on their house and just proves it would have looked fabulous on our's and thirdly, It makes our house look just that little bit shabbier. This is not an affront that can be taken lying down. 

We have already started our retaliation by sending their cat to coventry. We used to make a fuss of it when it came into our garden but no more. This isn't a
problem for me but Dearly Beloved is finding it hard because she is quite fond of him. I have had to tell her to steel herself and stiffen her upper lip, this is a war and there will be casualties, we can show no weakness. We are going onto phase two next week by scowling over the garden fence at them. I don't know how effective this tactic will be as it's March and they will probably be indoors. We are also considering the strategy of leaping out of the front door when we see them outside just so we can snub them when they say hello. I've heard this is particularly effective.

I don't know how they found out about our plans, it's possible they have been following us around to see what we have been up to, or perhaps they have a network of spies keeping tabs on us. I am also not ruling out some form of mind reading or time travel device. They managed to get it fitted in double quick time which suggests they had help. How smug they must be sitting in their house looking at their new door and laughing about how they got one over on us. It has been suggested that it's a popular style of door and it's just chance they bought the same one. Coincidence? I don't think so.