• Broken lifts – gave me free exercise but thirteen flights of steps went a wee bit too far…
• Empty bottles, spilled liquids and much more in the lifts when they actually worked….
• Extra rowdy football crowds – if only they actually won something…..
• Jehovah’s Witnesses proselytizing – oh and they offered to come back…
• Mr Landlord – who smoked in the house, once decided to remodel the bath on a Monday morning and was generally a pain in the nether regions….
• Attempted murder just across the road and in broad daylight too…
• A notorious park within the neighborhood…
• Hate messages scrawled on freshly painted walls, and scratched on lift doors….
• Raised eyebrows when I give my post code at the GP…
• Regular police fliers in the mail requesting information on crimes committed in the neighborhood……

Ten months after making the move up north – and opting to go the cheap route to stay in the vicinity of a council flat – I’m finally moving houses…  Its good to be moving on…. If I can only get the heating and the internet  to work.. ..