"It's been a Life Learning Experience, it's the only way to look at it." says Mrs R. of the trials of living in a small Scots village having moved up from Kent.
A boundary dispute had erupted with the neighbours concerning right of way over the R's land as these things do, when the neighbours demolished a wall and installed huge gates.
The R's erected railings to claim back some of their bit and planted a flower bed.
"Somebody poured Sodium Chlorate and sulpuric Acid over the flower bed but I think I know who it was, I haven't the heart to spend another hundred quid on plants."
The railings dispute made three pages in the Daily Express with some 'white settler' angle.
"It's a new experience to be an outsider for a change, down south it was other minorities that moved in who were always the outsiders."
"Villages are weird" I said "Often you find things out about yourself you didn't even know."
" A friend of mine moved here twenty years ago from four miles down the road and she says she's still considered an outsider"
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Some people always look to blame others for their shortcomings, since they can't spot their own character flaws.
I'm not anti English, Irish, Welsh, Chinese or anything else - I'm just anti Arsehole.
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