A few weeks back the phone rang as I was settling down to work. It was the manager of my mother’s estate office. The unwelcome news was that my mother’s neighbour was complaining again about noise from her radio in the middle of the night. The neighbour had now involved the council.

Full article: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/mar/31/familyandrelationships.family5