We were sitting in the living room on the sofa, the wrong way
round, looking out the window. it was quiet, and then in the car
park across the road we saw elvis - look, there beside the
postman'
, and he was walking round the postman's van, looking in
the open door. he looked as if he was thinking about getting in,
but then the postman came back, and he swaggered off, walked past
the wi
And down the stairs, and then at the bottom of the stairs
right by the caretaker's office, he started licking the
pavement. every night now since we moved in that new house
there's this noise ou
The door at just about half seven or eight o' clock every
night. and if we go and look outside the door, elvis'll be
standing there waiting to be let in. and then he wanders into the
living roo
Ybe sits down on one of the chairs or even lies down on the
floor. he doesn't say much, he just stays there for an hour or
two, watching the tv. we talk to him a bit, and then around ten
o' cloc
'll go away again, and not co
Me back until the next night. there's a lot of lanes and
stuff around here, around the house - although it's right in
the middle of the city it seems quite like the country, it's
dead hidden - s
Suppose, made for night living. there's a lot of squirrels
and birds, and stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there
when he's jumped over the fence on his way to prior's road.
sometimes you
O out walking, and when you've been out for a wee while
even you don't know where you are anymore, so it would be
pretty hard for anyone else to find you. I suppose that's why
he spends so much
There, that's why he's come to live there, or maybe
it's just the squirrels. I read about somewhere that he likes
squirrels quite a lot. there's these two videos that we got for
wedding presents
Lled the e-files, e-files one and e-files two about how elvis
is supposed to be still alive. and one time when he came round we
were watching one of those, but he didn't say anything he just
sat
He armchair. he was playing w
Ith his collar a bit, and we watched it right through and then
when it finished he just got up and walked off into the mist and
didn't say anything. the first few times he came round I
didn't sp
O him at all, I wasn't really sure what to say. and karen
spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do more than
I do. he had quite a strange manner though, he'd go into your
stuff a
Ok through it, then he'd maybe pick something up and play
with it for a wee while, but he'd never make any comment about
any of it. seemed pretty rude to me. I just watched whatever karen
did, a
Stened to how she talked to him and then, after a while I
started to copy that, and tell him a few things, not really
bothered about whether he responded or said anything back or not. I
think th
St time I spoke to him we were sitting up on the mezzanine and
I said that I would tell him about me and wee karen, and how it was
that we'd come to be living there. I thought he probably
liked
Act that we were living there
Because he came round so much, so I thought he might want to
know how it was that it came about. we did it all over backwards, I
told him. first of all we got to know each other, and then a
whi
Ter that we met, and when we'd known each other for about
seven years we decided to have an anniversary, and that went quite
well, so after the anniversary we had a honeymoon, and that went
well
So after that we decided that we would get married. that's
why we're living there now. I used to think my dad was elvis,
but I haven't told him that yet. I haven't told my dad
either...
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