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How good a neighbour are you?
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One neighbour looks after the cat when we go away and takes in post for us when we're out. Mr Frog mows the lawn and trims the hedge for her, and I do bits of shopping for her. I'd say she's a good neighbour, and that she thinks the same about us.
Another neighbour, however, is irrationally aggresive to Mr Frog, likes to stare at me when I'm hanging my undies out on the washing line, and shouts at anyone who parks outside his house. I'd say he is a bad neighbour and I'm sure he thinks the same about us.
Being a good neighbour (or a bad neighbour) tends to be a mutual thing, I think.
Another neighbour, however, is irrationally aggresive to Mr Frog, likes to stare at me when I'm hanging my undies out on the washing line, and shouts at anyone who parks outside his house. I'd say he is a bad neighbour and I'm sure he thinks the same about us.
Being a good neighbour (or a bad neighbour) tends to be a mutual thing, I think.
I keep my eye on my elderly neighbours, help where I can. One neighbour gets too worried to go to the docs/hospital because he doesn't want to leave his dogs alone, so I check on him every now and then and look after his dogs when ness. I don't live in the best of neighbourhoods, so the majority of us look out for each other. I start work early (normally 3am), and have been known to put the rather noisy tumble dryer on at 2am when I've forgotten to dry my clothes. I don't play loud music, but seem to think everyone wants to hear my karaoke when I've had a few too many. I TRY to be a good a neighbour though, surely that counts?
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We have very little to do with our neighbours but if they ever needed a favour it wouldn't be a problem and I'm pretty sure this would be reciprocated.
As a general rule I follow the Micky Flanagan train of thought: 'two to three doors either side you have to say hello and offer help... it's neighbourly. Any further than that, **** 'em.
As a general rule I follow the Micky Flanagan train of thought: 'two to three doors either side you have to say hello and offer help... it's neighbourly. Any further than that, **** 'em.
I'm an excellent neighbour, and my neighbour is equally as nice to me.
My neighbour works nights, so I make sure I have no music on in the kitchen during the day, as I know his bedroom is the opposite side of the wall.
He brings my bin in when it's wet and cold outside, and picks my recycling boxes up off the floor when they've fallen off the wall in the winds.
He throws the kids's balls back over the fence no matter how many times he has to keep picking them up (my old neighbour stuck a knife in my sons football and then threw it back!!)
I stand and chat to him in the pouring rain because he always has something interesting to say, and makes me laugh.
He says if I ever need to go away then he'll look after my budgie and keep an eye on the house. He also offered to fix my fence when it blew down in the wind.
He put a note through my door when he was having a house party, saying the music would be loud but he would try and finish up by a certain time.
I told him I loved the smell of the huge Rosemary plant that sits outside his front door - so he chopped me some off and brought it round.
He says sorry for revving his bike late at night, even though I never even hear it.
It's quite one-sided really, as I can never think of anything to offer him.
My neighbour works nights, so I make sure I have no music on in the kitchen during the day, as I know his bedroom is the opposite side of the wall.
He brings my bin in when it's wet and cold outside, and picks my recycling boxes up off the floor when they've fallen off the wall in the winds.
He throws the kids's balls back over the fence no matter how many times he has to keep picking them up (my old neighbour stuck a knife in my sons football and then threw it back!!)
I stand and chat to him in the pouring rain because he always has something interesting to say, and makes me laugh.
He says if I ever need to go away then he'll look after my budgie and keep an eye on the house. He also offered to fix my fence when it blew down in the wind.
He put a note through my door when he was having a house party, saying the music would be loud but he would try and finish up by a certain time.
I told him I loved the smell of the huge Rosemary plant that sits outside his front door - so he chopped me some off and brought it round.
He says sorry for revving his bike late at night, even though I never even hear it.
It's quite one-sided really, as I can never think of anything to offer him.
We are good neigbours - as are ours.
We take in parcels for them, share costs on boundary repairs, put out / take in bins if either is away, and the most important neighbour etiquette of all - ignore everything you hear through open doors and windows. Sometimes a full and frank exchange of views drifts over, but we ignore it.
We take in parcels for them, share costs on boundary repairs, put out / take in bins if either is away, and the most important neighbour etiquette of all - ignore everything you hear through open doors and windows. Sometimes a full and frank exchange of views drifts over, but we ignore it.
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