Samantha Motion: Good neighbours must do travel bubbles right
5 Apr, 2021 10:00 PM
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High fences don t necessarily mean we have walls up. Photo / Getty Images
A reader recently wrote a good letter recently on the subject of neighbourliness.
He compared the low, friendly fences of suburban sections in the 60s and 70s to the 2m-high privacy fences of modern suburbia.
Our lives were lived quite openly before friendly neighbours . if Mum happened to be in town and it threatened rain our neighbour would jump the fence and get the washing in and poke it in the unlocked back door. ....