Dreampt I saw a young girl with a platinum blonde
bob pushing a pram up the
garden path to our front door, I asked if she was Vera. She walked past me, I asked her again if she was Vera the new owner of
the garden flat, she continued to ignore me. The door to the garden flat was
propped open with dust sheets on the ground and I followed her in. The entrance
hallway was huge, like a ballroom, it was full of young girls, they all stared at me. I tried to follow Vera but lost sight of her, in the end I
asked where she had gone, no one seemed to understand me, everyone was whispering and staring at me,
someone pointed into another room next
to the garden. I asked if anyone spoke English again and a young girl pointed to
a huge swarthy guy with long dark hair stood
next to a large window. I asked him what work they were planning to do, he didn’t
answer me either. I said I lived here and was one of the joint freeholders and
that they were not to do any structural work without consent and that we had a
right to see the plans. He wouldn’t look me in the eye but sniggered and said: I know, we are taking them to court’. I felt he was too angry to look at me. I went to leave but
the corridor back to the front door had sunk 5ft. To get out I had to
pull out shelves as makeshift stairs to climb, up all the girls were looking
at me and I was trying to make idle chit chat saying:, Gosh, I couldn’t do this
every day.‘ ‘How do you do this everyday?‘ ‘How does Vera do this with a pram?‘
I took Erbie to Highgate Woods yesterday, the Autumn colours
were beautiful, the sun hung low in the sky and there was a slight chill in the
air. We met a friend from school in the playground and I spoke to his parents,
who had helped me come up with the line: ‘None of this is acceptable;’ when
we’d been asked to sign two consent forms, one for future building work to go
ahead (without seeing any plans) and the second for the historical removal of
the chimney breasts in the garden flat, (that had been carried out before we
owned a part of the building).
They told me not to worry - no one could do anything structural
to the building without agreement from the leaseholders / freeholders. I asked: ‘What do I do if they know that but
go ahead and do it anyway, can we stop them?’ They said if you hear a wall
being knocked down or see lots of rubble coming out you’ll know they’re up to
something and can get a solicitor involved. They also told me there is a free drop-in session for planning advice with Haringey council in Wood Green.
Please let it be nice people that move in.
I plan to hoover the communal hallway and sweep up the
communal front path today, as I am working from home, a little territorial scenting perhaps...
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