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DESPITE A STEADY STREAM OF ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE BEATING A TRAIL TO HER DOOR, MICHELE A’COURT IS NOT FOR SALE!

Real estate agents round our way are extremely well dressed. This is probably true in every neighborhood, but I can’t say for sure – this has been my only neighborhood for 25 years. But I guess if your business is the buying and selling of the most expensive thing most of us will ever own, you’d want to look the part – tidy, respectable and well-maintained. A bit like a house, really.

Anything between one and four of them knock on our front door on any given week. At weekends, they come in the morning and late afternoon, or early evening on weekdays. Three of them over Easter Weekend. They have different logos on their business cards, but always a photo so we’ll remember, I guess, who made the best impression.

Back when we had a landline, it was just phone calls. Eventually, they were the only people who used that number apart from aggressive men who said there was something wrong with my computer, which they could fix if I gave them a password and credit card details. Every time it rang, we knew it would be one of the two, so we did away with the landline and enjoyed the peace.