Previous owners of house keep coming round to "visit"

Invest in mooning gnomes and line them up near where they sit.

Why do you actually give a 💩?

Love this too!
Also, it will be pissing down again in no time, not worth getting annoyed about, that's exactly what they want x

Love this

Perhaps they think they should be able to use the OP’s facilities! 🤣

Have a party of your own, go round every neighbour and personally invite them all and to say if they are coming. Also invite your own friends in case some do not turn up. Killing them with kindness is also my motto.

Are you a lot younger than them? Not that this should make any difference to the neighbour who ignores you!

It’s extremely odd to sit out front with a BBQ! Maybe it’s an open invite and neighbours know that when Snub Neighbour gets his BBQ out, everyone is welcome? Maybe? I would definitely have to go across next time, brazen it out! Take cake and speak to the friendly neighbours.

The couple we bought our house from 6 years ago are still invited to neighbours' parties, and are still in our street Facebook group. We do wonder why, but simply ignore them [the woman's always drunk, anyway!]. Weird fact: I bought my house in London from the same couple 20 years ago!

Ask one of the friendlier neighbours about it - they might have all thought someone else was inviting you.

Is that your only takeaway from this post? 😄

@justasking111 I'm fairly sure "pricking gulls eggs" is illegal unless you have the appropriate license:
Guidance - gull management | NatureScot

They probably don’t want to block their own drives and access.

Have you any idea why the previous owners sold up? It seems strange to move if they were happy and friends with everyone. Take no notice of them as much as possible. Smile and wave at them. Like pp said it's probably something that started during covid and had continued

All of you suggested awful things to do to new neighbours who are understandably wary of a newcomer. That's not a great idea. Kill them with kindness.

My husband won them over because he had tools. He fixed heating issues, remote controls, helped with setting up accounts on the internet. He marched off with his chainsaw cutting back for frailer neighbours, climbed on roofs to prick gull eggs so the gulls stopped terrorising the elderly annually. He lent out his pressure washer to clean driveways. Recommended weed killers, gave tomato plants away. He's even split logs for a wife after her husband had a stroke.

He's mr fixit here. So like I say kill them with kindness, share skills.

A couple of big supermarket delivery lorries should do it. Once they've had to move the bbq once or twice, they may give up.

I'd also shut the curtains or blinds. I do this to block out our horrible neighbours.

The BBQ situation - as long as it is on their drive then there isn’t really anything you can do. If it is on the pavement then it’s a different story.
I don’t get why they couldn’t have this in their back garden though

suspecr it’s because it’s for all the neighbours, so they hold it in the cul de sac.

Me too. I’d be in and out like a sodding yoyo.

I think in your shoes, the next time I got the chance to speak to any of them whilst walking up the road or whatever, I would just drop into the conversation something along the lines of 'I hope you don't mind me asking, but is there some sort of history behind the BBQs in the road, as I've never come across this before, and just wondered if anyone can join in? They'll probably say 'Oh of course you can join in, we should have thought to ask you', or they might say 'Oh, it's a left over from Covid, would you like to join us next time?' If they just say 'Oh, it's something we used to do during Covid, and it's just kind of carried on', but don't go on to invite you to join in next time, then I'd then say 'Oh well next time you have one, would you mind trying to keep the chairs away from my driveway, as I really wanted to go out last time you were out there, but didn't like to disturb you'. That way, you've made a point, and if they then continue to plonk themselves in front of your drive, make a point of needing to go out every single time. At least then you'll know if they're deliberately leaving you out (in which case you'll have to learn to ignore it), or they're just thoughtless and didn't think to invite you.

I would develop an urgent need to drive to the shops, multiple times...

I think I would speak to them, I really would try not to care but I would. It's not nice of them at all. I would say do you have a minute and ask them if you have done something to upset them, if they say no not at all, explain that you find them having gatherings of the neighbours for friendly get togethers in the street outside your house difficult because you are excluded, and it's began to upset you. You don't have to fall out with anybody just a quick chat, you need to be happy where you're living. Be brave

So all of your neighbours attend this? The location and the fact it's all of your neighbours sounds to me like it's something that came out of covid when the big bonding in Neighbourhoods really set in.

If you find some of the neighbours friendly I would just mention in passing something about it and ask them a bit about it in a positive way... xyz looked great fun do you do it often blah blah smd grt them talking about it....stay super positive snc upbeat about it

You will probably find ypu will get an invite next time

I know how you feel. I used to live in an area where it was standard practice for people to be out in the front yard chatting and (IMO) spying on what other neighbours were doing. It was tiresome. I didn't want to leave the house because it would mean I would have to chat with them. Sometimes you're just not in the mood.

In your case I would decide to go on an errand when they were blocking the driveway, which would necessitate asking them to move. They should get the idea. Maybe they are just stone stupid or maybe they are being passive aggressive. It's hard to say. Repeat this process as many times as it takes for them to get the hint.
As for the partying, unless it's very late at night there's nothing you can do. Turn on some music to tune them out and close your drapes.

One of my neighbors had the noisiest kids I have ever heard, and they were constantly outside, screaming their heads off with nobody ever telling them to shush. It was intolerable. Inconsiderate asshole neighbours are just a fact of life unfortunately.

I agree with whoever said you need to cultivate the art of not giving a shit. At least this way if they're all out the front you can enjoy your own back garden in relative peace and quiet. Close the curtains, don't look out at them. Otherwise smile and wave and go about your day. I think that cul-de-sacs were designed by the devil personally, in the hope everyone would be looking at their neighbor and passing judgments.

Probably wouldn't want to have street parties outside my house where the "weird freak" was inviting themselves. Seriously though chill the fuck out @Isittimeformynapyet 😅 I was only half serious.

Apart from showing them what a weird freak you are, what would this achieve?

They're not going to think "that new neighbour's appalling behaviour has highlighted how unwelcoming we have been and we are ashamed and must be friendly from now on".