#21

Next Door to the Left: Mother has just got in her convertible Merc and driven off. (she lives with her son who is in his 20’s father died about 10 years ago apparently.)
Next Door to the Right: A Socially Distant chat with a friend who is in a car.
Across: Carers are visiting.

#22

Left. Very little, kids both older teens so have occasional friends in the garden but nothing mad.

Right. Never see or hear really, other than meeitng on the drive and saying hello.

Opposite. Man is continually tops off, drive off in convertible each morning to go to the shop. Have a lot of cars as have older kids with partners living with them.

Its a very quiet suburban street all in all tbh.

#23

Neighbours with the trampoline are still trampolining a lot (the kids anyway) - they hurt themselves and cry loudly A LOT. Their love of the trampo pre dates lockdown, I think it is them who also have a wooden skate ramp which is pretty loud, but I imagine is good fun

American Neighbour who’s garden backs onto mine has a new habit of shouting at her daughter with an unusual name each morning about work/ homeschooling. Daughter shouts back. I think they both need to get back to work from office/ school and have a break from each other. Her non american husband is very quiet but sometimes plays rockabilly quite loud

I also have a singing/ piano/ guitar playing neighbour. She’s kind of OK I think, but maybe not that good

Next door upstairs had their wing mirrors bashed up by some hooligans the other night

#24

We are probably the prick neighbours (dog and kid make it somewhat unavoidable) but our neighbours, who we actually know personally, are being so loud. They’re having a really tough time so I can’t really bitch them out about it, but they lack indoor voices completely, and have their rear doors and windows open all the time, except for when they’re slamming them. It’s nightmarish, it’s just constant loud talking and slamming. Really hoping our house move happens.

#25

Next door (left): empty. Landlords have been round this week clearing the garden
Next door but one (left): smoking a fat joint by the smell of things
Next door (right) nothing much. Very quiet. Nice garden and their son likes to play 70s rock loud on a Sunday afternoon

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#26

The woman below us (let’s call her Sylvia) has resigned from the garden committee (we share a garden with 40 odd flats) after my lover put some courgette plants in the garden. Sylvia instructed her NOT to plant them in the borders but in pots, which she did. Sylvia was drunk and must have seen them wrong ? and sent my love a drunken WhatsApp message having a go at her for not being able to ‘contain’ herself (Sylvia used the inverted commas - contain - get it!) and then another message to our neighbours WhatsApp group resigning from the committee. She’s now acting as if nothing happened and no one has mentioned it since. Courgette plants aren’t doing too well.

Little boy a few doors down bit my little boy yesterday. Pretty sure that’s a hate crime under the coronavirus act.

Bloke down the road is refusing not to park his BMW in the private lane that goes to our bin shed, even when confronted with letters gr the council stating they won’t collect our bins anymore if they can’t gain access one more time. Also threatening to break the legs of anyone who tells him where to park again.

Couple of floors down are having their floors done, the fumes are not nearly as bad as the last time thank god.

According to the WhatsApp group today “the druggiez are back in force” but nobody seems to know what this is in reference to.

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#27

#courgettegate

I’ve seen that BMW being complained about on Next Door

#28

Haha really? I’ll have to check it out.

#29

It been a few weeks since I last saw it mentioned but it’s definitely had several separate rants over the last few months.

Tenement flats sound a nightmare for politics

#30

Honestly had barely a single issue in four years before lockdown. Now everyone’s got to find some squabbles to have outside the workplace I guess.

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#31

Someone’s having a noisy backyard party - think it might be the trampoline family

#32

Our area was an idyll until lockdown, now everyone is pricks.

#33

On one side: little fucking shitbag 21 year old who’s been given this house to live in by his landlord dad, 2 - 4 massive house parties every week, been doing it all through lockdown, different people coming and going all the time. Lives with his girlfriend who is a nurse or carer so that’s very cool of her to have a full house every other night. Perhaps the worst bit is they don’t even know how to have a good time; he’s got an acoustic guitar, he strums a few chords and - I am being 100% serious here - raps the verses to Love The Way You Lie by Eminem and Rihanna and the rest of those present scream along the chorus when the time comes. Also popular singalongs are Coldplay and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Fucking disgusting that kids that ages think that’s a good time.

Other side: poor old dear who’s 96, confined entirely to her bed in one downstairs room of the house. Her family can’t afford a care home, or to maintain the house so it’s falling to bits. We paid to have some of their overgrown garden sorted out because it was growing over into ours and blocking all our light. She gets visits from her son and carer now and again but is mainly just lying in a bed in the front room on her own. Feel quite shit about it but there’s nowt we can do. We can’t go and knock on because she can’t answer the door, can’t really afford to pay for anything that’d be of any value to the family. Bleak.

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#34

Oh, that poor lady. Difficult to know what to do in that situation. Have you spoken to her son? Might be worth suggesting that you’re happy to keep an eye on things if they leave a spare key (if they’re willing to do that)

The other neighbour sounds like a total prick. That must be really annoying.

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#35

My neighbour is in his garage on his Zwift (?) for 2 hours+ every day.

#36

Both either side of us are two old ladies and I haven’t spoken to them since lockdown started. We put notes through their doors in March saying if they needed anything give us a ring, only Joyce called to say they’re all good they get regular help from family and stuff anyway. The other I see very occasionally walking her dog in the green across from us early in the mornings.

She’s pretty good is Joyce, always takes our deliveries in for us if we’re not home, though obviously that hasn’t been an issue for months now!

#37

Bumping this because yesterday Amazon’s delivery person left our and several other residents’ parcels on the floor under our postboxes so my boyfriend decided to take them to the flats they were for. We are on the ground floor out of 4 or 5 storeys.

When he got back he said “it’s funny how, the further up the building you go, the more it smells like weed”

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#38

I can see that you’re not.

#39

Are the police reading my posts? They’ve just gone round the garden with sniffer dogs

#40

Late to this thread. Really enjoyable read-through, though. Nice work, all. Moar pls.