See, I do get up before 9am *grin*
Admittedly this morning I had help in the form of a small reminder as to why we wish to move.
After getting my first good nights sleep since returning from Italy I woke up feeling incredibly warm, got up, opened the window and returned to bed for a cuddle. That’s when the screaming started – and no, sadly it wasn’t me.

At first I thought it was an injured bird or something, until I heard the words “Help me” so I lay there trying to figure out where it was coming from, it sounded too distant to see from the window. After a couple of minutes I got up and decided to look anyway, nothing there.
Then Stef said it was coming from the front so I ran through to the living room (by now the ‘help mes’ were becoming quite agitated) and looked out the window – sure enough our downstairs neighbour was head first in the mud and being repeatedly pounded by what appeared to be a mugger, a bag with keys, wallet etc was strewn across the grass so I thought he was being attacked on his own doorstep.
I shouted stef who jumped up, threw on some clothes and ran down to help.
I was about a minute behind him.

The ‘attacker’ turned out to be a spanish lad he’d obviously pulled the night before, he claimed that when he’d gone to leave he’d discovered his mobile phone and some money was missing – hence the pounding.
By this time M had locked himself back in his flat, the spanish guy was asking us to call the police when M reappeared and thrust a mobile phone out of the window – spanish dude then went nuts again demanding his money.

Now it looked pretty bad, we went back upstairs because to be honest, we didn’t want to get involved now M was safe.
To be fair, master spagna could have left his phone inside and miscalculated his cash – I’ve done that after a night out before. Pounding M’s face in the dirt was a little extreme for £30 (although the amount changed from “where’s my £50″ during the beating to “he stole my money, I had £30 in my bag, where’s it gone?”)

Either way, we’re going house hunting today, I’ve had enough of this kind of thing, between stabbings, beatings, car fires, joy riders and the general crapness of the area I want out!

Though on the plus side – I did sleep well last night, I’ll lay that at your door Miss April *grin* I know those good thoughts were coming from somewhere *kiss*