It’s all going down on our street today!

[Marmite27]

#1 is having a sofa delivered.

#2 have a JCB knocking down a side conservatory.

#5 are moving out, so there are big trucks everywhere.

#10 are having a skip delivered.

And an Argos lorry has just poled up for recently moved in #13.

#6 normally has a supermarket delivery on a Friday about 11am, so that could add to the chaos.

Luckily it is a friendly street, so much standing and pointing to work out the logistics of where everyone can move their vehicles to (ours is safe on the drive).

Normally it’s just the Tesco delivery for next door and a fat ginger cat that tries to climb the telephone pole on a Friday

Hope the ginger cat is OK with all of this, as the permission of the cat was not sought.

@MrsAudreyAlfredRobertsOBEHmm

No - Cheshire and honestly my house and drive is probably a tenth of the size of his

Next doors puppy escaped into our garden again but I dont mind we aren’t near a road so it’s fine
Number 42s oldest is having his first driving lesson, which makes me feel very old because I remember him being born.
Number 46 is having a new kitchen and I might pop some stuff in their skip later (will ask)
Number 48 is having a new front door fitted and has just brought me a key for emergencies Number 50 messaged me to say he has seen someone with a clipboard looking at trees and can I see better from my house
It’s a small cul de sac and we all know eachother pretty well so nobody cares of you know what people are up to

#62 are mowing, the pub is having its roof replaced ahead of reopening, the boat across the road has their washing out and 86535804100 dog walkers have just gone by... hope they've got poo bags!

I just had a spike of anxiety at seeing the bin lorry and not having put my rubbish out, briefly forgetting that it’s Friday rather than Tuesday, and it was in fact here for the green waste.

The builders who have been building an entire new street behind us have been relatively quiet today, so much so that I momentarily forgot they were there, and was overheard telling the snails in my mini greenhouse to “fuck off, you little fucking fuckers”, which provoked an outbreak of builderly laughter

No revving exhausts and squealing tyres from the ASBO neighbours 2 doors down, which is unusual.

3 doors down is confined to barracks because their second youngest has a D and V bug, and they’re waiting for it to spread through the other 4. I know this because we normally lift share (quakes).

The gammon diagonally opposite has his friends in the Range Rover Vogue staying again. I notice that this time they aren’t parking in my space (it genuinely is my space, I’m not just being territorial!), after I asked him to get them to cease and desist (During the course of this previous conversation I asked him to stop talking over me, which was apparently “unnecessarily aggressive “, and he hasn’t spoken to me since. Win win ).

Two teenagers outside my front window a bit earlier. One has a carrier bag, which he opens and shows the other.

“Bloody Hell, that's awesome. What's Jamie gonna say?”

This makes me laugh - from my husband's home office (soon to be nursery - unlucky) I get regular updates on our neighbours' goings on, garden developments, new sofas and visitors. Ten years together I never realised he was such a curtain twitcher until this past year 😂👀

Well the bin men have been and gone so that's today's excitement over. But it all happened 4 days ago. This is a very nice road of detached bungalows. The one diagonally opposite me is lived in by a guy in his 30s/40s who I have only ever spoken to once, he seemed perfectly pleasant. Well, 4 police cars drew up and went to his house, at one point there were 2 plain clothes and 5 uniforms in his house. At one point 2 officers were looking in his vehicles, one of which is a very fancy car that he only got recently. After about an hour they brought loads of stuff out of his house, brown paper sacks and what looked like metal containers. The police all then left but he went back into his house. Not seen him since though, fancy car been gone since Tues and the house seems unoccupied. We've not had this much excitement since one of us put the wrong bin out.

It's bin day for us. One of our neighbours goes out as soon as the bin truck has been to tidy up the cul-de-sac. This is, on the face of it, very neighbourly of him there isn't really anything to tidy and he seems to use it as a reason to hang around outside poking about in people's gardens and catching anyone who steps outside. Today he is trying to get everyone to agree that something should be done about a person on the next street who has been parking a van on the road. Apparently it's common knowledge that parking 'commerical vehicles' on private roads damages the road surface and will reduce house prices. He has not said what 'should be done' but has made it clear that he won't be doing it. According to him he's a 'live and let live' sort of person but wondered what everyone else thought. It looks like he's started knocking on doors now.

Nothing ever goes on on my street. One of the primary schools in the village must be on half term this week as some of them are off.

This morning a neighbour was locked out of her ground floor flat so another neighbour held a stepladder steady while she broke in. She sort of dived through the window hands first, bum in the air, and then slowly, slowly the rest of her disappeared inside. Very gracefully done.

[quote PainterInPeril]@BigMamaFratelli Maybe they're trying out a new way to scare birds!

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar And we have the obligatory diagram/photo! (It looks like a lovely view!)

@Marmite27 Please keep us updated. I'm now far too heavily invested in this thread. My M.E is playing up and I'm too exhausted to go and check what's happening outside. I'm living vicariously through you!![/quote]
I’ve walked down the road to take the littlest to soft ply for lunch. Sensibly left the car on the drive so not to add to the chaos.

We walked past #5’s new house and I’m happy to report they’re packing a removals van too

Wow thats so suburban. When someone says its all going down on our street round here it normally means van loads of cops and people climbing on roofs to avoid arrest.

Bin lorry came along earlier, not the recycling bin lorry, that was last week, but the normal bin lorry. They didn’t take all the junk next door had piled up around their bin so she won’t be a happy bunny when she comes home.

Apart from that it is very quiet, oh, now sparrows are having sparrow sex again but quietly, having only fledged the last lot earlier in the week. So glad I am not a lady sparrow.

Postman has just been, it’s probably the credit card statement, it’s that time of the month.

Two police cars have just sped down with nee naws. One was a plain car with a blue beacon sat on top and the other was a regular police car. We're a quiet residential road, no one drives fast here; some roads near us are closed for roadworks so maybe they were just cutting through.

Well the birds are making a right racket. Um, that's about really.

means van loads of cops and people climbing on roofs to avoid arrest.

That was here Tuesday night so .swings and roundabouts 😄

The only thing going on out the back of my house is me muttering about someone putting dog poo either in the recycling or the garden waste bin!!!?? No idea why there are 2 huge rubbish bins next to it....

Yeah, I had this for a while. There are 6 bins outside my door (3 for me and 3 for the flat upstairs) and the two "correct" bins are nearest you and your poo, yet you put it in the food waste bin. Only a desperate pigeon considers dog poo as food. Maybe a seagull

Got home last night to find a police van and car in my road. One of the policemen was carrying the battering ram thingy while the other 5 or 6 others were walking back to the van. One of the policewomen was explaining into her radio the "the family moved two months ago." They all looked as though their evening had been totally ruined because the suspect had the temerity to move.

Maybe a seagull.....

Didn't finish that thought.

Maybe a seagull, but then again they just do that sort of thing to get into the papers with their anti-social behaviour. Like bad neighbours on acid.

I didn't know street WhatsApp groups were a thing, I hate most of my neighbours. Thankfully all the kids in the street are adults now so we don't have to pretend to like each other .
The excitement next week will be st my house. I'm getting 2 new recliners on monday and a new cooker on Wednesday.
Then the council will be coming to lift my old fridge freezer, sofa, mattress and cooker which will be left in the driveway.

Yesterday and unfamiliar cat walked down my street, bold as brass. I was at work, so I missed the excitement, but my neighbours let me know before I even got my key in the door.

There's a squirrel comfortably tucked into the squirrel proof bird feeder in our front garden. The house across the road has an Amazon parcel left by the front door and the car alarm two doors down keeps going off. It's very annoying.

Yesterday I heard one neighbour tell another neighbour that their cat was looking 'portly' whereas their cat was in the 'peak of health'. I believe that's the modern equivalent of throwing down the gauntlet. Hopefully there'll be a fat cat shaming duel.

can't see much from the computer. but I should imagine two single ladies are going for their walk together, which they have done since the start of lockdown one. socially distanced of course...

felicitypike I grew up across the street from a pub and I used to love watching the beer wagon arriving and rolling the barrels down the hatch into the cellar!