What are my neighbours called? Aargh!

[IamEarthymama]

I have lovely neighbours, couple of doors down.
We chat, have walked through the park, talked about issues with grandchildren etc.
They will soon be doing me a huge favour, feeding cat and watering plants, taking in parcels etc, which involves me leaving written instructions?
I need to leave a card and wine, I cannot omit their names!

I cannot remember their names, I just cannot!
Short of mugging the postwoman, what can I do?

Hi OP, I live the other side, they’re called Penelope and Farquhar.

Tom and Barbara, surely?
Well, applying logic, they’d be the ones with the animals so the neighbours must be Margot and Jerry.

I'm going to hazard a guess at Mrs Mangle and Bouncer. OP, Now might be a really good time to consider doing a sponsored run/silence/parachute jump or similar. Then if you wanted to ask your neighbors to sponsor you too, and they agree, they would have to fill in the form with their full name etc. win win - plus you raise money for charity. Or you could offer to set up/update the streets' Neighbourhood Watch Scheme contact details? Or you could just come clean and say you have forgotten their name?! I'm sure it wouldn't be as cringe as you might imagine - if they are as kind as they sound for helping you out, I'm sure they'd be kind enough to understand that we are not all blessed with infallible Superbrains. After all, "that's when good Neighbours become good friends. " amiright?

Brian and Cath? Kevin and LeeAnne?

Can you look up their street address on 192 and get their names off electoral roll?

Just came to say OP, I got this wrong recently (was in a very similar boat) - they sent a note of acknowledgment back with the correct names underlined and circled and I am never leaving the house again for fear of seeing them. I got one right and spelled it incorrectly, got the other one totally wrong .

I'd just skip names and write the message, and address to 'number whatever'.

Do you have children? Get them to ask them. Could be that they are innocently playing ball outside, or even that you are with them and they interrupt your conversion with Sue or Dave to chirrup "What's your name?" Your neighbours will indulge them while you trill a little laugh at their impertinence.

I employed this stategy with my kids for years and it worked every time.

If you don't have kids, borrow some.

'Hello lovely neighbours'

My neighbour does this. Pretty sure she knows my name, not least because we work together!

I bet one of them is called Vicky Vikki Vicci Vicki. I know loads.

@RiftGibbon - our neighbours are Jane and Jon, Jo and Jason, and Justin and Gina. Gina has let the side down by not changing her spelling to Jina though!

Charlotte and Lucifer

i reckon there's a good chance he is called Brian...we have so many Brians!
neighbour, local farmer, dh workmate, someone at my old work, bidie-in of friend, husband of friend....ffs.

Caroline and James.
Wilfred and Betty.
Harry and Ginny
Buffy and Spike

Thelma and Louise.

Google their address. You never know what might come up, especially if they've ever run a small business from home.

Engineer bumping into them with a friend of yours that they have never met. Get friend to enthusiastically introduce themselves, thereby causing neighbours to do the same.

Pauline and Derek

Jasmine
Beth
Richard
Hannah
Ian
Charlie
John
David
Sarah

It's bound to be one of the above mentioned names. In our street these are all duplicate names.

Nigel and Christine

Ask for their autographs.

If you use the library have a look at the electoral register, they might be listed on that

Our neighbours call us Janet and John
We are not called Janet and John. I’ve no idea how this came about

Just begin the note with “thank you do much for feeding Tiddles and looking after the house!”

My SIL has a lecturer who asked”and how do you spell your surname again?” when he didn’t know. “ S M Y T H” she replied, “how else ?”

Eerr... Smith, maybe?