[Misc] How do you get on with your immediate neighbours?

[marlowe]

Perfect both sides. Lefty liberals and very considerate, like us.

Have you ever considered testing their liberal credentials?

How do you think they would react if you started pruning your shrubbery and undertaking other gardening chores while in the nude (gardening gloves excepted)?

Would they still comfortably chat with you over the garden fence totally unfazed by your state of undress while you casually stood there with soiled knees and gloved hands on your naked hips exchanging pleasantries?

Until you've properly tested your neighbours' credentials I don't think you should be carelessly tossing terms like "liberal" about.

 

[Questions]

I threw the son of the old witch next door down their stairs once when he rode his motorbike across our path nearly hitting my young son..... we haven’t spoke in the 17 years since.
The other side are a lovely young couple.

I should have added that the above was the straw that broke the camels back so to speak

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Do your neighbours like your music?

As a considerate neighbour I long ago established acceptable volume and timing arrangements. One neighbour (in her 70s) has expressed a fondness for my more gentle tracks (on the rare occasion I listen while on the patio). At the moment we are listening to the Cocteau Twins' Lullabies to Violaine.

 

[Yes Chef]

Perfect both sides. Lefty liberals and very considerate, like us.

I was hoping you would have at least one on ignore

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Have you ever considered testing their liberal credentials?

How do you think they would react if you started pruning your shrubbery and undertaking other gardening chores while in the nude (gardening gloves excepted)?

Would they still comfortably chat with you over the garden fence totally unfazed by your state of undress while you casually stood there with soiled knees and gloved hands on your naked hips exchanging pleasantries?

Until you've properly tested your neighbours' credentials I don't think you should be carelessly tossing terms like "liberal" about.

I meant they read the Guardian.

One of them does metaphorically cross herself if she sees me using Slug Bait. I tell her it's the new stuff - that doesn't contain metaldehyde.

It isn't, though.

Some years ago she asked me to take the top out of my yew as it was blocking sun on part of her garden. I did the job. Then she let the tree on her side of the divide grow taller than my yew. So I took its top out. She wasn't best pleased, ("oh, the birds love that tree") but I didn't have to explain.....'It will grow back' I said. It has, too. But a precedent has been set.

The secret of good neighbourliness is a bit of give and take, and 30 years of almost unblemished fully clothed gardening.

 

[Knocky's Nose]

We're on the end of the street so only have one neighbour to the left of us. She's the embodiment of Hyacinth Bucket but she's nice enough.

Opposite we've got a lovely retired Geordie couple who don't really bother us, and then next to them a real bunch of retired oddballs... Bloke gets up at 6am every morning, reverses his car out of the garage and onto the drive - it sits there all day, then at about 6pm he puts it back in the garage. I've seen it leave his drive with him at the wheel maybe five times in two and a half years.

I'm afraid we very much keep ourselves to ourselves. If someone on the street needs a hand, I'll willingly help - but I don't want our neighbours to be our 'bezzies' thank you very much.

 

[crookie]

Single lady one side, fine, family the other, the bloke just loves his power tools and doing stuff in the garden, with absolutely no thought that other people might like to sit in and enjoy their garden on the rare sunny days we have. Last summer, spent days extending his shed, loudly. Looked out the window the other day and he's demolished it, only to start rebuilding it about 6 foot away from where it was !! They have a lovely garden, but never actually ever see him sitting down and enjoying it, always the constant sound of power tools. We've had to have words a few times asking him to stop, which he does at the time. Just so inconsiderate, we're not so bothered during the week, but just wish he would give it a rest at the weekends

 

[marlowe]

....
The secret of good neighbourliness is a bit of give and take, and 30 years of almost unblemished fully clothed gardening.

I knew I was going wrong somewhere.

 

[Justice]

We used to have proper twats at the the back of us. Spent every sunny day having loud BBQ’s and then the old man knocked my door and said can’t you put the dog indoors we don’t like the barking, sent him packing with his tale between his legs.Now they’ve moved replaced with a lovely couple so all good.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Back when I lived in a village in Mid Sussex, we had an interesting bunch of neighbours. I was only a child the whole time, up until we moved when I was 18.

On one side, they were all overweight and seemed to have constant health problems, but on the contrary, all were very nice and mad into their fishing.

On the other side, they were again, just as nice, but scrounged off the state claiming health benefits and even turned to my Dad not long after moved in and apparently said 'listen, I've got a bad back, so I don't work, so if you see me fixing cars, it's not me, d'ya get what I mean?'.

Poor behaviour of course, but they were harmless and he was a cracking mechanic so we got the cars maintained at v cheap rates.

And then sadly, a family moved in 3 doors down and at first as children we all got on and then one day, as kids do, we fell out. But it then turned nasty and the Dad decided it be appropriate to knock on our door and threaten us all to my mother who politely told him to **** off.

This went on for a few months to a year and even at the tender age of 10, he thought it was acceptable to pull up alongside me and threaten me, nice people. Turned out they were from a family of gyppos. Police were involved and it was quite crap for a couple of years as it felt tense all of the time.

I'm very lucky now to have really decent neighbours in my flats in Withdean.

 

[Icy Gull]

Back when I lived in a village in Mid Sussex, we had an interesting bunch of neighbours. I was only a child the whole time, up until we moved when I was 18.

On one side, they were all overweight and seemed to have constant health problems, but on the contrary, all were very nice and mad into their fishing.

On the other side, they were again, just as nice, but scrounged off the state claiming health benefits and even turned to my Dad not long after moved in and apparently said 'listen, I've got a bad back, so I don't work, so if you see me fixing cars, it's not me, d'ya get what I mean?'.

Poor behaviour of course, but they were harmless and he was a cracking mechanic so we got the cars maintained at v cheap rates.

We had one of those live across the road from us a few years ago, really nice guy and also a great mechanic. His wife was disabled and he had “retired” from the Fire Service with a “bad back” at about 40 years old. He knew how to milk the system and when his wife died he took up with another woman and showed her the ropes for being “ill” and claiming benefits.

I actually liked the guy but always felt I should really have been shopping him. iI once saw him pick up the front a Mini and hold it whilst his son put axle stands under the car. Not bad for a man who had to retire with a bad back!

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

We had one of those live across the road from us a few years ago, really nice guy and also a great mechanic. His wife was disabled and he had “retired” from the Fire Service with a “bad back” at about 40 years old. He knew how to milk the system and when his wife died he took up with another woman and showed her the ropes for being “ill” and claiming benefits.

I actually liked the guy but always felt I should really have been shopping him. iI once saw him pick up the front a Mini and hold it whilst his son put axle stands under the car. Not bad for a man who had to retire with a bad back!

Yep, some people are quite odd like that.

 

[GAZTASTIC]

On one side are two women living as a couple who are great and we get together for a drink a couple of times a year. The other side are complete ********s who turned nasty the minute we refused to turn the fenced side path between us into a common pathway. Considering their two younger kids were used to hosting parties in the garden for 20 to 30, when the parents were on holiday, starting at 3am they had no chance of a shared/common entrance. The wife announced shortly after arriving that she had 'large breasts' which I found odd at the time, but now realise it was to take attention away from her enormous arse. She is 4' 6'' of sheer ignorance, something other neighbours have picked up on.

 

[pearl]

I don't have much to do with mine, but they all seem fine at the moment, living in flats though so never know who could move in.

There have been some deranged nutters living here in the past.

Great thread BTW ... very interesting to read

 

[Easy 10]

NSC - home of the curtain-twitchers

 

[BN9 BHA]

I was hoping you would have at least one on ignore

 

[stewart12]

we've had a bit of a nightmare with the couple upstairs. They're massively sensitive about noise (we have an almost 2 year old), and resort to very aggressively banging on our ceiling whenever we're making what they think to be too much noise (this can be at any time of the day). We've tried to resolve the situation but they have always ignored us when we've reached out to them. Their garden is a ****ing shit hole and this actually put potential buyers from buying our flat, as they quite rightly thought "**** living next to those lazy pricks"

Recently they had a mega domestic (when I heard her threaten to kill him) so we had to phone the police. Think the issue is her rather than him.

Thankfully our flat sale is quite near to completion so won't have to put up with them for much longer

Annoyingly the flats either side of us are all currently empty so it's like we're on an island with these pricks

 

[BN9 BHA]

NSC - home of the curtain-twitchers

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Very well. We have been in the same house for 36 years. On one side had the same neighbours for 30+ of those years. On the other side had the same neighbours for nearly 30 years, but then two new ones in the last 4 years. All between “no trouble” to excellent. We’re lucky.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

On one side are two women living as a couple who are great and we get together for a drink a couple of times a year. The other side are complete ********s who turned nasty the minute we refused to turn the fenced side path between us into a common pathway. Considering their two younger kids were used to hosting parties in the garden for 20 to 30, when the parents were on holiday, starting at 3am they had no chance of a shared/common entrance. The wife announced shortly after arriving that she had 'large breasts' which I found odd at the time, but now realise it was to take attention away from her enormous arse. She is 4' 6'' of sheer ignorance, something other neighbours have picked up on.

We had a gay (male) couple next door for 20plus years. Moved about 4 years ago. Could not have wished for better neighbours.