Man with a clipboard

We have had the men with clipboards again, wandering down the street noting the registrations of vehicles and photographing them.

There are two points of view. One is that someone repairing vehicles in a residential street is a nuisance.

The other view, which is nearer mine, is that this is someone who is not claiming anything, works hard to put a roof over his family's head and food on the table, who is always willing to help out and is a good neighbour, and who is not actually doing much worse than the alleged landscaping at the back of Matalan and it isn't actually much of a through road - and privately owned at that.

Apparently the bin men have not collected the bins from the newly converted flats at the end of the street. This is about ten yards from my bins that are always collected. I think the bin men have just forgotten and are using the abundance of vehicles (five cars and a large van) as an excuse. There was a measuring tape out as well.

For me, we can almost always park outside our house, and Nice Mr Next Door will always apologise and move cars asap if we can't. Delivery vans get here. Bin men get here. Asda get here. The only people that always grumble are those from the council who are supposed to collect the big items, like sofas etc. They always say that they can't get in because it is blocked. I think they find the road blocked by a large can't be bothered sign.