Fbg 6.7
Not much sleep last night...
Why?
My next door neighbour (the horrible one, who totally ignored lockdown restrictions...) had his Xmas lights installed yesterday. It was a noisy Sunday with barbecue and extended family around. I took my processor off yesterday to get peace and quiet.
However, when dusk fell, Blackpool Illuminations began. It permeates every corner of my bungalow. This year is an incredibly colourful display. I go in my bathroom and there is an alternately flashing red and yellow lights, and my brain immediately thought 'fire'. My stomach felt sick and then I realised it was his new flashing lights align the bungalow gutters. In my bedroom I see other flashing lights and displays. In my kitchen I can see all manner of light fantastic displays, and displays with moving floodlights. In my living room window the same. I have curtains in the front window, but it still creeps through the tops of the curtains and displays on my ceiling...
I have no curtains in the bathroom (it is not possible to put any in there). I did try one year to try and block the outside of the bathroom windows, but I don't have the dexterity or mobility to do that daily.
My bedroom curtains I do not close now, because I don't have the dexterity to close them. That is fine for 10 months of the year because I can then watch the night sky every night, and I love watching the stars.
I have tried closing them with a stick, but it is not easy, hurts my hands and arms badly. And in any case the intrusive Xmas display from next door comes through them. I cannot put a thicker black out curtain up, even if I were able to, because the door glass window is not wide, and a thicker curtain barely draws back to allow daylight through in day time. Last year I tried each night, to go out side, the door opens into the garden, and put something over the door and close it. But oftentimes it is rainy and windy and I got soaked and cold and aaaggghhhh.
Have a I had a word with him. Yes I did. But he told me in his usual unfriendly manner to h3££ off. Even though I tried to explain it exacerbates my visual migraines etc.
Last night, I tried my blackout eye mask to try and sleep. But I couldn't sleep with it on. Then I tried a scarf round my eyes and head, but I felt like an unknown soldier facing a firing squad, and my dreams took a sinister turn. Finally I got out of bed just before midnight. I was wide awake. Then on the dot of midnight the Blackpool lights went out...
But it was too late, I was wide awake...
I have been tidying up all my computer stuff, leads, equipment, updated stuff, got rid of unused apps, etc etc etc etc....
I now have a tidy cupboard...
Whoops, I have alerts from the neighbourhood group for this area on all kinds of stuff...one has just come on the top of my screen (while I am writing this) saying this guy has just come back just now from walking the dog and a strange man was urinating outside their house and his wife was horrified at the window...don't know the rest of this, I need to log into the app...
Beautiful neighbourhood this, isn't it...
Right back to to the idiot next door. He has to have the biggest and best Xmas display of lights and moving light decorations each year. He always sets out to outdo every other bungalow display in this cul-de-sac. And he annoys others with the amount of lights and display, and with the length of time he has the lights on at night.
Nothing I can do about these UFO lights flashing all through the next two months. I have tried before. I have tried officially.
Someone on here mentioned that the weather was supposed to be nice and sunny this week. That means I can carry on cutting down the garden and branches off trees...
I checked the weather app. It promises sunshine from dawn to dusk today. Now let me see, I do believe the sun rises at 7:52 am.
Mmmm...thinking. Well, my horrible neighbour had workmen for his driveway and garden, and the roof being replaced for weeks and weeks and weeks last year, it was never ending, and they were working from 7am many days....and I had to move my car from my driveway daily into the road because of all the dust, cement, soil and debris that came over my car. So I had to be up very early each day to move it.
Okay, I am getting dressed now. My painting will have to wait until I need a rest. The wood shredder is coming out of the garage. I have plenty of cut branches already in a huge pile. I was going to somehow get them to the tip, but one of those alerts from the online neighbourhood group for this area said that because the road to the tip is very short from the main road, and they are social distancing the cars as well, and consequently you cannot queue on the main road, and the workmen there make you move on, so you are driving round and round trying to get into the tip. That is not doable for me. So, wood shredder it is....
I do have a circuit breaker for it....
Have fun this beautiful sunny day...the sky is lightening...a few pinky streaks...