Grant met the neighbours!

Best day ever! First of all - Tom got the deadlocked doors open - its FABULOUS!

Second of all ... Grant met the neighbours - oh happy days.

The chief of police lives next door!!! He wasn't home, but Grant met his lovely wife and their four giant dogs (delightful)

Next door to them live Steve and Loretta - new best friends. Steve was a page at ABC, and Loretta, a makeup artist - she favours matador pants and big jackie O glasses - I LOVE her.

They have lots of advice about having an investment property in Palm Springs as they also have one - their former tennant was BUDDY HACKETT. Confidentially, Buddy was a bad tenant - very messy, acually ... a pig.

Steve also has a friend we MUST meet as we would get on like a HOUSE ON FIRE, and by the way, we would get to meet CHEETAH from the Tarzan movies, as he owns him! what the ....

Next to Steve and Loretta lives the FIRE CHIEF, so obviously we are living in the vicinity of the Who's That of Palm Springs.

and PS - I CAN. NOT. WAIT. to have a drink with Cheetah!

Later in the day I was chopping down dead sticks formerly known as our front garden when fabulous JOAN drove past in her banana yellow VW convertible with her giant teased hair, and red cats eye glasses on a little string around her neck. Joan wanted to know ALL ABOUT us.

Joan is a local real estate agent, and had a client who wanted to buy our house but we got in first. She mentioned all the ways they tried to get it out from under us but failed. Thanks Joan! She mentioned MANY TIMES what a BARGAIN our house was and what IDIOTS her clients were ("they are from Montana - say no more")for not taking it the first time they saw it. They rejected it because they are PURISTS (reading into her tone - every time she says "PURISTS", she means "IDIOTS") I have to stay slightly quiet because I had mixed feelings about the extension on our house too and I would have preferred an all original one too -

but fiddle dee dee i think as Joan sails into the sunset after giving me her card in case I want to sell to her idiot clients, and mentioning one more time what a BARGAIN we have! Joan - FABULOUS!