When peace like a river

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Date: 17 March 2006 10:52:24

Is rudely destroyed at 00:30hrs in the morning.

I woke up to hear someone banging loudly and shouting outside the neighbour's door. Then I heard the familiar bonger, bonger, ooooo, ooooo, bunger, bunger from the neighbour's stereo. I rolled over to find the First Wife was not in bed.

Finally the connection dawned.... It was her shouting and banging I could hear. Not having any luck she came back to bed; having managed to kick open the neighbour's front door but not got any response. We gave it a few more minutes before I went round.

No answer from the knocking. I kicked open the front door and no answer from my shouting. So I went in.

There was neighbour spaced out of his tiny little mind. He turned the sound down very slightly. I asked, politely for him to decrease the volume a bit more, after all it was 01:00hrs.

Back to bed, only for music to be turned up again. Only option left is to call the boys in blue. So I talk to the nice young lady at the control room who promises that an officer will come out at some point.

Five minutes later and the music gets turned off. We leave it another few minutes and then call the police back to cancel the officer.

Who said life was dull on a council estate.