Tell me what's going on.....

I love Autumn evenings, and not only for the smell of the air, clean and crisp, with a hint of colder to come, but also for the darker nights.

I know I'm a bit sensitive to "nights are fair drawing in", but I do love it when they are.

I'm a people watcher. I don't even have to see the people to people watch. I house watch too. Since we moved to Troon over 10 years ago, I've been trying desperately to get my husband to see a kitchen that I spotted one evening just like this. It gets darker sooner than you think. You put the light on -you haven't remembered to close the blinds, your rooms are lit up to the world outside, and there I am.....

I really try hard not to get up on window ledges, but sometimes.....

No, I like to keep my distance, I look in windows from afar, I imagine stories to what I'm seeing. My favourite is flats like this. From a vantage point, I can watch a whole block, I can see up to 8 people, or families living their lifes completely in ignorance of the people next door, or upstairs, or downstairs.

Everyone is doing different things, some are watching TV, some are working on computers, some are cooking, some are laughing. Occassionally you see things you wish you hadn't. I was out walking and witnessed something awful. To make matters even worse, the people next door and through the wall, were actually up ears against the wall listening to what was going on. It was the ideal people watching situation, watching people, acting in response to something I could see but they couldn't.

I kept walking and walked til I got back home. I worried and fretted for days about it and then had a chat with a policeman about a hypothetical situation I had seen. Hypothetically. He told me, that hypothetically, if I should hypothetically see anything like that, I should not intervene but call them to intervene.

Thankfully, i've never seen anything like that again.