by WWordsworth » July 26th, 2017, 4:10 pm
How about an update....
My fears were founded.
About 2 years ago the bride had a massive fallout with the lady of the next door house.
She accused her of throwing coffee grounds at her drying laundry, and of throwing a stone over the fence and breaking her window.
The bride called the police for the second event.
However, she should have checked her facts.
The neighbour does not drink ground coffee (the bride does), the neighbour was ill in bed when the stone was thrown.
I used to live in the bride's house and it would be extremely difficult to thrown a stone and hit the window from the neighbour's garden.
The bride called the police because she claims her husband was in the room at the time, where the window was broken.
He says he was in the bath.
The bride erected an 8-ft fence along the garden, timing it so when the neighbour and her husband and children returned from holiday it was being carried out.
The bride told a mutual friend I was "fraternising with the enemy" - because I didn't take her side, I didn't actually take either side.
At this point I lost the plot and told her I would fraternise with whoever I bl%%dy well chose.
She apologised, said she hadn't said that at all, and that she thought she was speaking to our mutual friend in confidence.
Not sure how that works.
Anyway, I accepted her apology and we bumbled along until last autumn, mainly because her husband is an old and dear friend.
I invited them to our 25th wedding anniversary party, plus the neighbours she fell out with, along with lots of other people.
I explained to the neighbours that the bride and groom would be there, they said no problem and they would love to join us.
I said the same to the bride and groom.
The bride TEXTED me to say she was sorry she was unable to accept the invitation.
We are quite a friendly bunch on our street and each Christmas someone hosts a drinks party for all the neighbours.
The bride and groom accepted the invitation but did not turn up.
Then the house went on the market.
The bride and groom moved out a couple of weeks ago, we only know because someone saw the removal van being loaded.
We know their property is about 20 miles away and we know the name of the village, but that is all.
The groom has lived in our village since 1992 and we have been very good friends since then, he was well-liked and well-respected in our community, until a couple of years ago.
There is quite a crowd of us who socialise together. Not one person has the new address.
Isn't that sad.
And she blanked me in the street the week before they moved.