Mc Grath,

My next door neighbour is strange - she exhibits many external behaviours which have caused me and my friends to wonder that she may be exhibiting symptoms of a sort of delusional paranoid schizophrenia - any attempt to be friendly results in a random response - sometimes, even in the same breath - of social pleasantries and hostile abuse - a smile sets her off even worse - I now just pretend that she does not exist and that she is just a disembodied voice that I ignore.

Science has shown that some individuals have a wrongly wired lower part of the brain that connects emotions and thoughts.

if you think I am harsh, when I was friendly towards her, she was placing weekly complaints to the council about how my property was overrun with rats, grass too long, rubbish, etc. Finally got the council off my back by pointing out that since they refused to disclose who was making the nuisance harassing complaints, that meant under Aussie Law that they were conspiring with someone unknown to me to harass me and I could sue the council directly for conspiracy to harass. Conspiracy is a nasty charge in Aus... and it only has to be demonstrated that the actions are producing the result, not necessary to demonstrate any intent to conspire or even harass.

And now I insist that the Council mows the footpath - as a remberance! :_0

Robin