Neighbour part 2

This post follows on from Rich's post yesterday. They did indeed take our neighbour away yesterday morning and they put her in a mental health unit for ONE night. After which they sent her back to her flat. She returned some time this afternoon.

When I got home from work tonight at 6pm, ready to grab some dinner and be back at church for a meeting at 7.30 I returned to the familiar shouting coming from downstairs. After a while I realised that the shouting was coming from outside so I looked out the window to discover our neighbour in her nightie, running around the pavement at the front of the houses.

After a while she came knocking on our door. We ignored it for a bit but after 5 minutes or so we took pity and decided to answer. She told us again that she had died the other night and showed us where she was bleeding (she wasn't). We ended up going back to her flat with her and sitting with her for a while as she was scared to be there on her own. Rich had phoned the police, who again took 2 hours to respond. As I left for my meeting, having not had a chance to have any dinner, I saw her running around in her nightie again.

Apparently the Police did eventually come and have taken her away again but how much they can do will 'depend on her mental state'. We're going to risk staying here tonight in the hope that they won't send her back in the middle of the night and we can get some sleep.

The other strange thing that has happened this week is that somebody stole my bicycle saddle!! I went to cycle to work on Monday and it was gone. What a strange week - roll on the weekend when we are away!