Have You Got Good Neighbours?

[Bobbisox1]

I have the best neighbours ever, D comes each Monday evening to take a wheelie bin to where it gets emptied then he collect on Tuesday after they’ve been ,N alway messages me to say she’s going food shopping do we need anything? I’m very active and alway do our food shopping myself anyway but they’re both so considerate ,we’re very lucky , so COVID did something really good, that’s when it began .

[Ken4155]

Bobs, when they take your bin out, does it come back with a smile on it's face? :-)

https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/03/neighbours-ask-family-to-take-bin-out-and-they-had-wheelie-good-day-19255312/?ico=mosaic_news

[-SharonA-]

Wow that is good neighbours!! Although I know & get on with my lovely neighbours, they've always kept to themselves.

[Bobbisox1]

Ken I need those stickers for my bin, I wheelie wheelie do ;0)

[gulliver1]

If i was living next door to some people on AB. I would have moved away years ago.

[Geoffrey13]

What a really amusing article Ken, thanks for the link.

[Bobbisox1]

I’ve just looked on Amazon Ken, you can get them on there , I’ve ordered 2 panels of red poppies for mine , should of ordered 4 ,I might yet :0)))

[MargoTester]

Yes we live in a cul de sac of 8 houses and have been here for 35 years. People have come and gone and it's always be a nice place to live we don't necessarily live in each other's pockets but you know there's always someone who will help you out if needed. We have a gay couple next door at the moment, one is a caterer and is always popping round with cakes and pies for us. Across the road we have a Romanian builder who has helped us so many times with problems. My OH always mows their lawns and does their bins, takes parcels in etc.

[Bobbisox1]

We don’t either Margo , not like the old days where people were in and out of houses all day long, we live in an end house so just have the one neighbour

[mallyh]

we have lovely neighbours now but before we moved here 15 years ago we had a really nasty neighbour ,she came round to introduce herself and sat on my dining room table until i said we had chairs ,when she watered her garden she aimed for our open lounge window ,lit a firepit near our backdoor and when she found out about our son (who didn't live with us)added a foot to her fence and very loudly said "that should keep undesirables out"we moved shortly after

[Bobbisox1]

Eek, evil biatchi Mallyh

[Barsel]

I want a neighbour like Mago who will bring me cakes and pies.

[Barsel]

Sorry, Margo not Mago.

[Bobbisox1]

I think we all do Barsel :0)

[Ken4155]

Brigs back memories of when i was a kid (7 or 8). My aunt lived on the next street to ours but, as we were at the top end and so was she, it was a bit of a walk, particularly in poor weather. The neighbours across from us, Chuck and Minnie (i kid you not), would allow us to cut through their house, out the back gate and straight to our aunt's back door:-)

Both in their 60s, Chuck would usually be sat in his armchair, one ear cocked to the radio, stained pint mug of tea in his hand while Minnie would be in her rocking chair, rocking to and fro, seemingly staring into infinity. The house had bare flagstone floors, the dining table had newspaper covering it and on the mantlepiece were candles which got smaller every day. It was obvious they didn't have 'two ha'pennies to rub to a penny'.

In exchange for their allowing us to use their gaff as a short cut, my brother and i would run errands for them. Free of charge, of course:-)

[Bobbisox1]

Gosh poor Chuck and Minnie, that’s so sad they lived like that :0(

[Ken4155]

Early 1960s, Bobs. I dare say there were many 'Chucks and Minnies' out there at that time.

[MargoTester]

He came round one Friday and said 'have you got dinner ready yet' I said no and he presented me with a steak and kidney pie! I've never been a great baker so his 'gifts' are always most welcome. There's always someone ready to water gardens during holidays too - I guess we really are lucky

[Bobbisox1]

Yes, no doubt Ken, there must have been

[Bobbisox1]

It’s a feel good feeling when you have good kind people as neighbours Margo

[bhg481]

bobbi - not so sad as it seems. That generation were happy with their lot, unlike nowadays where everybody seems dissatisfied with their lot even though they are much better off.