Northcote

acrylic on canvas

Propping the ladder up against the side of his house, I asked if he even had planning permission for this.

“Haud ‘at,” he said, handing me a large segment of a satellite dish.

His wife was out getting her perm tightened. The mail order satellite dish he’d been hiding was 4m in diameter. My neighbour wanted to watch the weather channel in Dubai.

He was sectioned for the second time since I moved next door.