No, I’m the one who does the lawn, whether or not I wear the knickers!
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I’m cracking up here,
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Good. We need a bit of humour in our lives to brighten the days with all that dismal news we are constantly bombarded with.
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Guess it spices up a boring job. Might try that with suspenders and stockings as well 
Too true. 
Not much, but next door, unattached, do throw out rather a lot of wine & other bottles every week. She’s a strange one as well.
Next door, attached, whom we were very friendly with, is older than me, then her late OH & I had a bust up some years ago & we hardly spoke after that, it wasn’t her fault but we could hardly chat to one & not the other, so friendship was never re-established til her late OH was late. We aren’t as close, but we are friendly now.
Don’t really know any other neighbours except next door but one & we are sort of friends.
Can’t say I know much about any neighbours. I am not a nosy person. 
Years ago I was & I did know a lot about my neighbours, scandal etc, , but that all changed with the years going by, people moving, new moving in & kids growing up. I have lived here for 50 years
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Shyte! Well, I’ll give that a miss thanx 
Make doubly sure you get those seams straight or you’ll look kinky from the back 
I get on well with my neighbours and I don’t think they gossip - at least, they don’t gossip to me about our other neighbours, which is a good sign.
I am fairly open with them about my lifestyle and see no reason to be careful what I tell them - I never do anything I would be embarrassed or ashamed of.
If they think my LAT lifestyle with my lovely fella and my comings and goings between our four different bases is odd, they have never said so.
The couple who live next door and the couple who live across the road seem to be expert at working out when I’m at home and when I’m away on one of my jaunts, even if I have left my car parked in the drive.
That is really useful to me because, if they notice I’m away, one of them will kindly check to see if there’s anything in my wheelie bins and take them to the end of the drive for me on collection day and put them away again.
One chap puts himself out even more and comes round to mow my lawns if I’ve been away for a few weeks and he sees the grass is getting long, so no burglars will suspect I’m away. That is very sweet of him.
I always keep a check on their properties if I am at home and they are away, so what goes round comes round.
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We only have one immediate neighbour and I know he buys a lot off Amazon as the parcels always get left here and he’s a damned nuisance because he always comes to collect them about 9pm when I’ve just sat down to watch a film.
He is about 40 and always on the cadge. The day they moved in they wanted plasters as he cut his finger (despite there being a shop not 2 mins walk away). Then he wanted to borrow a potato masher, then jump leads, then some screen wash. I lent him the potato masher but told him he could have used a fork!! 
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When I moved in 17 years ago the neighbours were all friendly, we would chat and keep an eye out if any help was needed , we were all older, I think I was the youngest then . Over time some have died and new younger people moved in . The new people dont bother looking up or seem interested if I smile or say hello I just get a disinterested sound . Not all of course but its very different now . I keep myself to myself and think it’s best. The parking has become a huge problem with some neighbours having 3 and 4 cars so it can be a parking war . Dare move and on return it’s a problem. Little consideration nowadays for the rest of us .
Shame really it was once a lovely cul de sac
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Bit like that here Susan. I live in a large village, where we’ve been for 30 years now. Obviously I was much younger then but I had friends here who ranged from my age to much older retired women. If you walked to the shops everybody said Hello and the shopkeepers knew everybody.
People got involved with things like PTA, brownies, jumble sales, church, social club etc and you met people through doing so.
We used to have a Gala which raised thousands for charity and was great fun but the same people always volunteered and that ended about 15 years ago sadly. No younger people came forward to volunteer.
If you meet a younger person in the street now they don’t even make eye contact as they are either on their phones or listening to music.
A few years ago I said Good Morning to a youngish Mum and she said “should I know you?” And looked at me very suspiciously.
Then on FB local parents complain that there is nothing for kids to do!! There is a youth club, a skate park, football and hockey pitches, tennis courts, a reasonable bus route to nearby towns, outdoor gym equipment.
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it wasn’t her fault but we could hardly chat to one & not the other, so friendship was never re-established til her late OH was late.
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Sorry Tiffs but I thought this was funny
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That’s OK, I guess it was the way I worded it. 