The close!

6&7 M&P sound interesting is there a liaison or gossip is either betrothed to another are we like to see any hair pulling and handbag slapping....keep watching jeni have some virtual binoculars.....

Oh I forgot me! I'm very quiet, retiring and modest. I prefer to observe rather than do. But I seem to be the only one (apart from his wife) who will face up to git!

First. The cast!
1 old git next door, the original grumpy old man. His hobbies are, shooting wild life! Cycling,( well at least it gets him out for the day) being too busy to do any thing that he's asked to do ( doing what nobody knows), watching his parking lot.

2 angel. She is married to git. She makes him go cycling even if he doesn't want to so that he is out of her hair. She has a heart of gold. She's a p/t house keeper at an Abbeyfield house, does tai chi, visits her her dd in Antibes, takes some of her old dears ( she's 70) out for trips and keeps an eye on me!

3 S on my other side. We very rarely see her as she is a keen twitcher and goes twitching all over the world. She also spends a lot of time up north with her 'friend' she is a very pleasant divorcee in her 60s. Her son is I think living there as well at the moment,

4&5 E and J . They are in their 80s, she still does all the gardening, decorating etc. he is barely5ft high and almost the same round. He knows everyone, been every where, won't pay the full price for anything then moans when the result is not as good as he wanted! He boasts he takes about 23 pills a day, is on oxygen and tried to replace his garage roof! the emergency ambulance is not unknown at his bungalow.

6 M a lovely meek old lady in her 80s who leaves her bungalow promptly at 9am every morning come rain or shine to walk the mile to the paper shop and then back again. I never seen her without a smile.

7 P a political enthusiast, retired civil servant, has our local mp Lian Fox round to tea regularly. You can always tell when he's coming . She flies the union flag on a flagpole outside her bungalow.

M and P have just gone on a cruise together (first time for both) on the ? Rhine. So no doubt we will hear about it when we all come out of hibernation during this little rainy spell!
Talk about two innocents abroad!

As I said, all is quiet in the close at present as we are all sheltering! But if and when the sun returns ,the close becomes a hive of activitity.

Watch this spot

The idea of a GN sitcom/soap has been wandering in and out of my brain. But you have a real life offering j while we wait for inspiration

Wait and see!

But you did say, jeni, on another thread, that they were all 'mildly eccentric'!

Are you suggesting that the residents of our close are funny? This is a serious anthropological study of a group of neighbours, all past retirement age who live in 'close' proximity to each other! (a geriatric archers)

Is this a new sitcom jeni ...sounds intriguing....

Can't wait for the intro of the cast.

Really?