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shewhomustI had turned the light out last night, and was just drifting off to sleep when I was called back to wakefulness by a volley of loud bangs: loud enough to wake durham_rambler, even though he had removed his hearing aids.
"What was that?", he asked, and I told him that I hoped it was fireworks - which seemed likely, because I could see flashes of light, even through the thick curtains. For both these reasons, I thought whatever was happening must be quite close, butdurham_rambler looked out of the window and reported that it seemed to be a couple of streets away.
Our immediate student neighbours have left for the summer. Their contract runs from July 1st to June 30th, so on successive days we had last year's tenants moving out, and the coming year's crew moving their belongings in, spending an overnight in the house, and then vanishing. Nothing is perfect, and they have now been replaced by builders, with their own repertoire of noises (oddly, not just drilling and scraping, but also radio, which the students don't seem to do).
And so the seasons turn...
durham_rambler, even though he had removed his hearing aids."What was that?", he asked, and I told him that I hoped it was fireworks - which seemed likely, because I could see flashes of light, even through the thick curtains. For both these reasons, I thought whatever was happening must be quite close, but
durham_rambler looked out of the window and reported that it seemed to be a couple of streets away.Our immediate student neighbours have left for the summer. Their contract runs from July 1st to June 30th, so on successive days we had last year's tenants moving out, and the coming year's crew moving their belongings in, spending an overnight in the house, and then vanishing. Nothing is perfect, and they have now been replaced by builders, with their own repertoire of noises (oddly, not just drilling and scraping, but also radio, which the students don't seem to do).
And so the seasons turn...
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Date: 2021-07-07 02:36 pm (UTC)We were reduced to checking religious holidays but nothing............