22 July (Part 1) - HMO or what?
A month ago a lot of work was done on the house next door to me which was
unusual as almost nothing had been done to it for the past 15 years or more. I
got a new fence panel out of it and the people who moved in did not appear to be
universally African as has always been the case in previous years.
They were friendlier than those there for most of this year which wouldn’t be
difficult as the previous lot may not have spoken English at all. Rumour has it
that Bexley Council has bought the house and turned it into some sort of HMO
refuge. Certainly a large number of different faces come and go.
Coincidence or not the number of cars parking on my drive has increased
recently, Photo 1 was taken last Wednesday and Photo 2 this morning.
I said to the driver that I was curious as to why she had chosen to park on
my drive and in justification produced a Bexley Council pass. Stefanu something
or other beginning with M from Social Services and she had been called to the house next door.
This was not
another Kelly Wilkinson situation, Stef, if that was her name, was
exceedingly polite and not an entitled nobody from Bexley Council. I pointed out
that her client’s drive was completely empty and I think that is where she went to.
The owner who moved out in 2006 installed an air conditioning unit which has not
been used in 20 years because it is too expensive to run. Now that Bexley
taxpayers may be paying the bills it is in use almost constantly. Similarly the smoke alarm has been beeping for the past two weeks. Maybe they are
waiting for someone from the Council to pop round with a new battery.
If and when my
remotely controlled retracting bollard is ever installed it will
be fun to impound vehicles for 24 hours. Bexley’s included.