Neighbour Knows Everything — Continues to Deny All Involvement
A Strand resident described by those around her as “comprehensively informed” on matters affecting her street, her broader neighbourhood and a reasonably wide radius beyond that has this week maintained, with complete composure, that she was not involved in, did not have prior knowledge of and played no role in a boundary dispute between two neighbouring households, while simultaneously demonstrating an intimate and detailed familiarity with its origin, its timeline, its principal characters and the likely outcome if the party who has spoken to a lawyer proceeds, which she believes they will but shouldn’t.
“I just hear things,” she explained. “I don’t go looking. Things come to me.” This is technically plausible and also, for anyone who knows her, a characterisation that requires some generosity to accept. She is not unkind. She does not gossip in the pejorative sense. She is simply aware, in the way that certain people in certain communities are simply aware, the information finding its way to her through channels she has never had to construct and has never needed to examine.
She knew, correctly, that the dispute traces back to a boundary wall erected in 2019. She knew that one party had obtained a formal opinion and that the opinion was discouraging. She knew that the discouraging opinion had not discouraged them as much as it should have and that a second opinion was being sought. She did not know the name of the second lawyer, which she acknowledged freely and which she described as “a gap I expect will close.”
She wishes both parties well. She is not involved. She has, however, had thoughts about how it should be handled, which she expressed clearly, calmly and at some length.
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