I've just had a thought....

[DilemmaDelilah]

about themes for a novel. Bear with me:

My DH is wonderful, but he is also a metaphorical curtain-twitcher. (no curtains to twitch). We share a very private drive and parking area with our neighbour, so there's not an awful lot to see, but if he spots movement outside there he is, watching to see what's going on.... Then he will say to me something like, oooh she's been out in the car three times today and she's putting a big box in the back, what do you think is going on? I end up giving him several different perfectly ordinary scenarios for why she is doing what she is doing.

That could be developed, I think, into a sort of 'sliding doors' story, whereby the different reasons for our neighbour going out in her car several times in one day and then putting a big box in the back could be developed into completely different stories, that could, perhaps, run concurrently in the same novel.

Just an idle thought... What do you think?

I’d wonder why he’s watching her every move, tbh.
Very peculiar.

I would say that perhaps she has been in consultation with the Natural History Museum in Tring regarding a donation to their collection, and she is now conveying her deceased husband's collection of stuffed badgers to their new home. What the museum doesn't know is that the badgers are stuffed with the remains of her deceased husband.

Will that do?

Copyright me, dated today

It's not that he's watching her, in particular, that was just a simple example. It's any movement... delivery van, big bird, postman, kids on bikes, fox, cat... it's not so much that he's being nosy, it's that he is retired now and I'm not very interesting!

@invisiblecat that's a good one!

And that's the kind of response I was after 😂

Ooh do you live opposite the poster of "five years of nosy neighbours" that I have just read?

I say give it a go! Could be rather fun