It's been a while......

But finally.................................... I've moved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES YES YES!!! Result.

As I've probably said in previous comments, we'd been in the house a month before we put it up for sale, that was July 2006. We moved at the end of July this year. Four, God awful years, that put me under an enormous amount of pressure and there were times when I thought I was going to crack up. That sounds dramatic, but when you live in a constant state of "stomach knot" (for want of a better expression) it takes its toll, as I'm sure some people appreciate.

We lost a lot of money on the house, but so what, it's only money and we had to get out. It very nearly went pear shaped at the end because I had to explain to the buyers that we'd had problems in the past (I didn't want to find myself on the end of a legal battle, I've done enough battling over the past few years) and it nearly went off at the end. But I think some angel somewhere was looking after us, it went through and I did a merry dance.

I now live opposite a lovely little church, I go to bed at night and I actually sleep properly, for the first time in a few years.

I can't "blame" the police for the situation I found myself in, some would even go as far as to say it was my own fault and in some respects, for a woman of my years, I was naive at best - however, I am a tax paying, law abiding citizen and I expect to be treated with a modicum of respect. When I first had to call the police about the problems it was abundantly clear that anti social behaviour, despite all the hype surrounding it, was really not of any interest to the police officers who visited me. I was nothing more than a nuisance to them and eventually I gave up calling them unless things were really bad (eg the night we had around 100 kids fighting outside, and the night someone set fire to a car right outside the house!).

So whilst I accept the police are not to blame for any of the problems I experienced, they did not help matters at all - they were awkward, ill mannered, unreceptive and as I say, I was treated in a very disrespectful way. I have a sense of disdain towards the police in general which is shocking really, as I was not brought up that way. Had they pulled their fingers out properly, shown the little villains which way was up, I'd have had much more respect for them - but no, my situation was of little or no interest to any of them. Funny really, because some of those little darlings who were making my life a living hell, are no doubt now on to bigger and better criminal activity - thus keeping the local police even busier during this turbulant time since the new Government. If only they'd dealt with them 4 years ago eh?

Hey, how about that, a post without one, single, expletive? :)