On 04/12/2014 23:05, Gary Woods wrote:
"Bob Hobden" wrote:

Used to be a lot of that when I was a youngster. I sometimes think we were
all a lot safer with the old lady standing at her front gate/door just
watching.

Years ago, I lived in a typically seedy student apartment in a typically
seedy neighborhood. At night, you could almost always see the glow of a
cigarette in a darkened upper window across the way. Word was that the old
guy there was somehow "connected," and we never had the usual petty
crime/vandalism.



I assume you mean connected to the police, rather than the criminal
under-belly?

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Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay