My very first Diary entry concerned paranoia within the English Middle-Class, and a July entry documented a slow pursuit by such a guy up a steep hill. There have been many others, always a pain but undocumented, and the “Middle-Class ‘Paranoid Guy’” (MPG) has therefore become a stock item for me. However, I’ve now discovered how to teach others to discover his lair (read on)…

Yesterday’s (Monday, 29 August 2016) MPG was dislodged from his lair in a bungalow in The Mount, a Neighbourhood Watch area near the top of Marshall Hill. Now, the opening sentence of this paragraph has actually just given you some important clues; one or more of the following will make it likely that a MPG is around:—

1. A street with a pretentious name
2. A detached/semi-detached house or (best of all) a bungalow
   (these men—they are almost always men—are normally retired) (like me)
3. Their street has a Neighbourhood Watch and they are active within it

You will need Google StreetView to complete your identification of this irritating pest. If you bring up The Mount in StreetView (the other MPG lived on Highfield Drive) and cause the ‘blue streak’ which identifies streets with StreetView images, then you will find an absence outside the lair of each MPG (Google will not let you see the StreetView images there, as someone has applied to have them denied). Aha! The spoor of the MPG!

I’ve only looked for this twice, and spotted it on both occasions. 3 times will make it certain.