A woman says she can't get into her own home faced with an endless stream of Instagram influencers who turn up to take pictures of her pink house.
When Eleri Morgan decided to bring a pocket of colour to her street during lockdown by painting her home a vibrant shade of pink she thought the neighbours might like the streak of sunshine added to the road - but she had no idea so many random strangers would also be enthralled.
The Cardiff house was formerly a fairly standard pebbledash traditional terrace when Eleri, originally from Aberystwyth, picked up the keys and moved in during 2018 with a long list of plans to update the home on a budget, Wales Online reports.
And the coronavirus pandemic gave the 32-year-old the time and the impetus she needed to get the paint brush out and revive the facade of the home she shares with her sister.
With the end result the neighbours loved it, her friends loved it and Eleri loved it.
But after the house became pretty in pink, occasionally Eleri would notice someone hovering outside her window but didn't think much of it, although it was enough for her to consider buying some window privacy film.
Eleri says: "During lockdown lots of people were going on walks and the interest has been trickling in since then, but obviously they wouldn't know to tag me, so I get messages from friends saying, 'why is there a picture of your house on social media?'"
It wasn't until the lockdown restrictions started to significantly lift from last month onwards that Eleri began to notice small groups of people collecting at her front door and taking pictures of her pretty pink house more regularly.
Some cheeky selfie-snappers even pretended to be about to go inside, with key in hand as though it was their home.
While many people might feel a mix of emotions, maybe including annoyance, Eleri is a professional comedian and joke writer so she certainly sees the funny side of her home being regularly hijacked for social media fodder. And the amusing subject is surely going to be discussed as part of her act when she appears at Chapter's Drones Comedy Club in early September.
Eleri says: "I didn't think people would be quite as interested as this in the house, but it now happens probably two or three times a week.
"People do a little photo outside my house and it's completely harmless, I don't mind it at all and I feel there must be other places who get it far more than me. Usually it's really nice women having a great time with their friends taking pictures of them leaning against the wall.
"I remember the first time it happened I cackled because I saw them and they saw that and looked so embarrassed. But then I felt awful, so now I sit in my car and wait until they have finished.
"I try not to walk towards my house until I know they haven't noticed me because if it was the other way around I think I'd die of embarrassment. And I don't want to embarrass them, so I just wait until they've finished off and they are around the corner and then I scurry in - and then I close the curtains.
"I don't really know what to do, I don't want to interrupt them, I'm like an awkward Welsh person having to say 'I'm so sorry to have to go into my own house!"
Eleri says when the latest 'photoshoot' occurred at her front door and she told a friend, her advice was quite dramatic: "She was telling me I should yell at them because they were on my property.
"But she lives in Amsterdam where the tulip fields are and there the influencers actually go in and rip tulips up or lie down amongst them to get a better shot.
"With me it's so harmless, it's mainly young girls taking photos and who really like my pink house, so it's flattering I guess."
But if Eleri thinks it's amusing at the moment, it might become more intrusive as more influencers arrive at her front door, as her pink house is about to become a TV star as the home of a gay couple in S4C's new sitcom Jam.
She says the television cast and crew were at the property for the day and used mainly the outside and the living room, plus she got paid for the job and that then paid for the pink paint and continuing the home's internal make-over.
