DEAD SPOT

Quite close to where you live, there’s a t-junction where you can turn out from a road of quiet bungalows, mostly inhabited by the elderly, onto the much busier main road.
If you are listening to DAB radio, or streaming music or audio in your car, or through a pair of headphones, or if you’re talking on your mobile, you may notice something as you approach the t-junction and turn out onto the main road. 

It’s only for a few yards, but you’ll lose the signal, whether it’s radio or streaming over mobile data. Keep going, and back it comes. Go a few steps backwards, and you’ll lose it again.

The junction, and a few feet either of side of it, is a dead spot. No signal gets through there. You might speculate whether it’s the configuration of the houses around it, or a dip in the land, but you’d be wrong, because it’s nothing to do with that.

If you were diligent and checked the time as you pass in and out of this junction, you’d notice that it’s not only mobile signals and the radio that do not work there. That’s why the man who lives in the corner house, the 1930s bungalow by the junction, will never move from there, and it’s why he had the 1930s bungalow built on the site of his previous house, and that house built on the site of the previous, right the way back to when he first discovered the dead spot in 1394.