Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Real life | 26 January 2017

No one has disputed it in 70 years, so why can’t she do the sensible thing and just ignore it

issue 28 January 2017

The problem holding up my house move turns out to be a wiggle. Have you ever had a wiggle? It sounds jolly enough but, believe me, you don’t want to go there. If you have a wiggle in your garden, you had better be prepared for the worst.

I had no idea about this wiggle, because when I bought the flat I only had my lawyer scrutinise the Land Registry documents to a normal degree, which is to say I asked him if everything was broadly all right, and when he confirmed that it was I told him to proceed.

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