<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Neighbours on Gromet's Plaza Archive</title><link>/tags/neighbours/</link><description>Recent content in Neighbours on Gromet's Plaza Archive</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 20:13:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/neighbours/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Afternoon Tea</title><link>/stories/2021/08/25/afternoon-tea/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2021/08/25/afternoon-tea/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The scene was a quiet residential street in a middle class mountain suburb. The time, the afternoon of a cloudy mid-winter day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Geoffrey was a former government employee in his late fifties who had taken early retirement a year before and had been living up here ever since. He was lean, fit and kept healthy with plentiful exercise, usually long solitary walks in the neighbourhood. He had a square, serious face, a head of plentiful, if greying hair and was generally thought of as easy to get along with by the locals. He had been a widower for eight years, still enjoyed the company of women and would have enjoyed an active relationship. But, there seemed little opportunity up here.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Oops Wrong Bin</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/oops-wrong-bin/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/oops-wrong-bin/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;To set the scene I live in a suburban street by myself, a 32 yr old blonde spinster. I&amp;rsquo;d describe myself as attractive with an athletic figure, blonde shoulder length hair and blue eyes.
I&amp;rsquo;d had various girlfriends over the last few years but none I&amp;rsquo;d like to stick with unfortunately. I knew I was a lesbian from about 16 years of age before that type of thing was widely accepted.
The house next door had been empty for some time but one August morning a removal truck pulled up outside, followed by a small sports car. A young couple were moving in, both in their mid-twenties. I saw him first, around 5ft 6 with slick backed hair and a phone glued to his hand. I went out to introduce myself and welcome them to the area.
&amp;ldquo;Hi there&amp;rdquo; I called out but he barely looked at me before nodding briefly and strutting straight past my extended hand.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>