What are yours like and how close are you.

I am just getting ready to take my boys to the Under 12 Football Disco at the club across the park and I have a spot on my chin. Run over the road and ask Sarah for something to cover this monstrosity up I say to Sam, over he goes and swiftly returns with a covering.

Isn't that nice.

Are yours as obliging.

Next door left, never see them. First baby due next week.

Next door right, dog has stopped barking every minute of the day since the ex moved back in.

Opposite, mum and grown-up son who has tattoos and piercings everywhere and is built like a brick out-house. Good if trouble arises.

Diagonally opposite, know everything about everyone, never go anywhere and have very poor taste in most things, especially Christmas decorations.

Obliging, not really. Bearable, yes.

Cat, tell everyone how you had to move from your last place because of the neighbour 2 doors down.

Neighbours to the right, lovely couple, two grown up daughters, neighbours to the left, not a bad bloke with son living with him - cause no problems at all. Now lets move onto the people across the road - OAP with too much time on her hands, objected to my planning permission (which got granted), nosy cow, down the road slightly another OAP, turned her garden hose on me cos I parked my car outside her house! not a nice person....

But they are not as bad as the people who used to live two doors down, very common family, used to drink a lot and hold parties til all hours!! terrible people...:bag:

What are yours like and how close are you.

I am just getting ready to take my boys to the Under 12 Football Disco at the club across the park and I have a spot on my chin. Run over the road and ask Sarah for something to cover this monstrosity up I say to Sam, over he goes and swiftly returns with a covering.

Isn't that nice.

Are yours as obliging.

What was it? A plastic bag? :naughty: :naughty: :naughty:

Don't be so cruel, Crit. It was probably something appropriate to match her colouring.

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Two of mine got married in the 80s and then had numerous top ten hits between them. One of them is still going I think.

We often have long-lost sisters, brothers, children, mums and dads turning up, as well as the odd murder, affair and a couple of months ago we even had a plane crash!

They all like to speak in an Australian accent too. Most odd.

(Have I been watching too much TV again?)

:unsure:

Just got it. Har-de-har. :bored:

Someone had to do it! :kid:

All of mine on both sides of the road for about a mile are hubby's blood relations. They are still crazy though. His cousin lives next door (about an acre away) and has 2 house trailers, 1 he lives in and the other is either a meth lab or a pot plant nursery. They have lots of skeletons in thier closet...but I don't have the time.:pimp:

To my right - the girl upstairs is a hospital Dr, and an excellent amateur musician. Pianist, Cellist, and clarinetist. To my left the pair of flats is rented out tomsstudents. Opoosite is the leader of my local professional orchestra, an x councillor, a director of the local theatre company. I have good realtions woth all my neighbours.

2would love to stay up. But i have had a lovely St Patricks night abd feel slightly drunk. Pleasant drams to you all. nighty night night.

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As you look at my house - neighbours to the left very chatty (sometimes can't get away from her) but in a good way...neighbours to the right ...not so chatty but still freindly and we talk over the low garden wall in the summer and she gives me money off my rat food because she works at the local smaller pet shop! :naughty: I think the fact that all three of us moved in at the same time helps us get along pretty well!

Across the road...opposite...I have the brick wall to someones back garden and they have a basket ball hoop and concrete area in the garden. It can be a bit annoyimng at times to hear the constant thump, thump, thump of a bouncing ball and they can be quite crass at times in their language...across and to the left is a special home for people with minor special needs. They have learning difficulties but are able to live in their own self contained flat with limited assistance. I never have any problems there although and ambulance turns up every now and then.

It's quite different from when I was still at home with Mama Coastie as there I knew everyone up and down the street and behind pretty well and we often had street bar-b-ques etc.

I only have one set of neighbours and they are OK. The dad is a lovely man (although kinda scary). He works in the slaughter house and he is massive. He is very kind and buys me vodka in the pub so he cant be all bad.

His kids though are another matter. He has 4 children, and they had all moved out when we took up residence so it was quiet. Since then they have all moved back in, and 3 of them are teenagers / 20's.

I was annoyed last night and Mr.B and i work hard, and Friday night (I know it sounds boring) we are knackered and like a good nights sleep ready for the weekend. But the kids came home from a pub last night peed as farts and yelling, screaming, shouting .... and it was 1:40am.

It really pee'd me off as it isnt a one off. I was in a really deep sleep, they woke the dog up who started barking, and i had trouble going back to sleep. I really thing the dad should tell his kids that they should learn a little respect for his neighbours.

Next door on the left are a youngish couple with 2 little girls, he's just passed the knowledge and is now a taxi driver and keeps parking over our drive, which isn't a huge problem cos our 2nd car is only tiny, but still....

On the right is a woman in her 40s, just dumped her husband for a much younger model, don't know her at all yet, but the other neighbours have painted her as a scarlet women :naughty: .

The local gossips came along to my chocolate party the other week and filled me in on everyone else, down to the decor in their houses and sexual history, so I feel I know the whole cul-de-sac now :pimp:

opposite are all old people who are so lovely but mad!
next door left is a house which has been empty for over 20 years
next door right is a nice neighbour who is always abroad travelling so i hardly see her from one year to the next.

lovely.............................

I'm really lucky - my neighbours are all fabulous** and we all get on extremely well, helping each other with cat/dog/child minding as well as doing silly things like poker nights, newconservatory/newkitchen/newanything booze-ups.

But importantly, we give each other space as well.


**Edit - apart from her next door who does the naked yoga in the garden in the summer months. She's a bit odd.

But importantly, we give each other space as well.




that is VERY important! i couldn't be doing with a chatty neighbour always in and out of my house!

my neighbour is a 60 year old scottish lady who lives on her own with her cat, she is the perfect neighbour. She looks after my cat when I go away and I look after hers when she goes away. We chat in the back garden in the summer if she is having her fag out there whilst I'm gardening. We have a running joke about who will open the bar first that evening!! gosh such larks!

I'm end of terrace so she's my only neighbour.

His kids though are another matter. He has 4 children, and they had all moved out when we took up residence so it was quiet. Since then they have all moved back in, and 3 of them are teenagers / 20's.

I know its bad etiquette to quote yourself, but one of the boys from next door is driving me MAD :ranting:

One of his boys has a car fascination. He buys old wrecks ... kind of does them up and sells them. This doesnt bother me too much, although he often buys a lot in quick succession before selling them - so the outside resembles a car park !!! I can live with it though.

But on Monday he bought himself a boy racer car with a big boar (is that how you say it) exhaust. When he first turned up with it i thought it was a motorbike as it was dark and i could just hear it. My husband later told me it was a car.

This car literally shakes my whole house. I have never heard anything so noisy in all my life. I wouldn't mind as much if he got in it, turned the engine on and drove off ... but no, he revs and revs and revs for about 4 mins before driving off with his foot flat to the floor.

On a Thursday Mr.B and I get a lay in. On the other days he has to get up at 5.15am, and he doesnt get home until 8.30pm. He is permanently knackered. On a Thursday though he doesnt start until later, so we get to sleep in for a while. But no - the blo*dy bloke started his car up outside out bedroom window at 6am ... and reved it for ages as it had trouble starting.

We were then wide awake, the dog had started barking and i am now P*SSED OFF.

There is nothing i can do though. I dont like arguements with the neighbours and im hoping someone else will complain. I know before we moved in they had the police out many a time because they used to race motorbikes around the street .... but i thought they had grown up. I mean, they are in their 20's with pregnant girlfriends etc ..

Next door right, dog hasn't stopped barking every minute of the day since the ex moved back in.
Bad form or not, I'll join you Bons.

The sour-faced slapper, the kids and the dog have gone. :yahoo:

He's still there, but we never hear a peep out of him.

Jesus loves us after all.

Bad form or not, I'll join you Bons.

The sour-faced slapper, the kids and the dog have gone. :yahoo:

He's still there, but we never hear a peep out of him.

Jesus loves us after all.

Fab result Pats...... hopefully someone will slash next doors tyres and then i can join in the celebrations. :unsure:

That's not very Christian, Bons. Just pray, that's what I did.

(and get the large, shaven-headed neighbour to pay a visit)

on the right hand side we have an old couple with their middle-aged daughter living with them. The mother swims in the sea everyday, [brrr] so I know her from my fairweather swimming [starting in may]. very quiet.

t'other side a youngish couple have just moved in with their three lovely but very boisterous and noisy children.


Cue oversize trampoline, sand pit, small paddling / splash pool and a tree swing. Well, we had to get our own back on them!! :devil:


straight opposite is my bezz friend Judy, and Urk's mate Jerry. Very tempting for sessions /bbq's /bold stuff....:pimp:

next to her is the weirdo family - most peculiar peeps to look at. They keep odd hours, and have the mutt from hell with a bark so annoying I've considered doggicide.

Across the road from us we have a nursing home so it`s generally very quiet there expect in the summer when you want to sleep with the windows open and in the early hours you here this one woman screaming (every day) help me, help me. Not sure quite what happens in there but they have a good rep and it`s a much sought after place.
To my right we have a Dr of Engineering who plays in a band in his spare time but always wants to start practicing about midnight. Doesn`t bother us but used to bother my daughter whose room was a lot closer.
To my left we have a couple who we call Howard and Hilda as they do everything together and sometime dress the same, but they are very quiet.
At the end of our back garden we have a young couple with 2 toddlers who have a very small garden but have filled it with heaters and bbq`s etc and for some reason they always have family get togethers on a sunday evening that run into 2 - 3 in the morning. - - - don`t these people have work to go to? And no matter what the weather they are all in the garden area.