Flashers

One of the houses behind us has security lights borrowed from Guantanamo Bay; they have had lots of trees cut down including a beautiful (evergreen) holly tree and suddenly we are no longer shielded from interrogation! From 5.30pm these lights pierce through all our curtains/blinds (with white, blackout linings) flashing on and off right through the night as any creature (neighbours tell us the 'Lighthouse' family have 3 cats!) moves through their garden. Our guests screech with fright and drop their sherry on the kitchen table in surprise as the searchlights flash on; we leap awake at 5-6.0 a.m. as nocturnal felines come home? By breakfast our Weetabix and porridge (good for the heart provided you don't experience cardiac arrest as a result of the Gestapo beams) are highlighted as flashers flick on and off. H1 has been round to chat but they claim none of this happens; my little, basic, pink camera does not do these 'alien-heralding' lights justice......



We have been advised of legal letters but we get on so well with all our lovely neighbours at the front, that I really don't want to go to the letter stage- but I am scared to go round to knock on their door! However dark circles on us all dictate that I must pluck up courage at some point. Oh heck!