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

I've been out on a school run and to the gym, neighbour on the left has also been out similar . The lads on the right are as always very quiet and Gillian if you are reading this theres been no amazon deliveries for you today ( you have to buy something lol) its been a quiet day on our street so far.

Well it's bin day here..... I noticed this morning 2 black sacks in my wheelie bin - we use white ones so I got on some gloves and had a look. It was all take away boxes/containers and star bucks cups etc (recyclable stuff so should not have even been in sacks) Stupid buggars had left their delivery receipts on the boxes so I identified the CF and went and dumped it outside their front door

I’m not at home today but the most exciting we get is an occasional cyclist and the cows being moved from shed to field.

@roguetomato

I think I will feel extremely weird if people on my street knew what everyone else was up to. I have no clue what's happening on my street. I like it that way.

The lady across the roads tells her DIL everything we get up to. It's so funny because her DIL is a good friend. She was fuming I had my dog cut too short & is if a tree gets bushy and she can't see my dogs in the window. She also sees one of my neighbours walking around naked in his house until he put some net curtains up.

Cow with a calf growled at one of my dogs as we passed on our walk. Curlews, grouse, cuckoos, and pheasant making some noise. River at medium level. One dog almost chased a squirrel and then a deer but managed to control himself. Husband quietly “working” upstairs, but I suspect if I checked, I’d actually find him napping.
It is bin day here, but our pick-up point is a mile away, so I don’t see or hear it and just have to guess when it’s happened.
We’re the last people on our road with the closest neighbours a mile away, so nothing else going on that I can see!

best thing all day this strand!!! At the front we have a house with a very long rendered wall - which is being sanded to remove surface paint and some render ready for repair. It sounds like a pneumatic drill and has been going on for at least 4 full days.
At the back we have a house that's being totally done up. That started with the roof being cleaned. A neighbour has been cutting down a hedge prior to an extension being built. For the first 9yrs here it so quite we didn't realise we had neighbours at the back. Ah well

@MissGendered

Next door STILL haven't removed the graffiti sprayed on to the front of their flat. Snitch, scum, grass and a very crude drawing of a snake. Opposite neighbour is supervising the autoglass man replacing his windscreen after it was put through again. Neighborhood kids are whizzing up and down the street on bikes, scooters, atvs and those weird hover board things. The smell of skunk fills the air.

Fucking hate living on a council estate very jealous of people living close to sheep, ponies, etc.

Not all council estates are like that! Just a few give the majority a bad name.

New roof a few doors down.

I'm currently having a new kitchen so builders in and out and skip on drive. That was interesting as I live on a fairly busy cut through road on a bend. It arrived on school rush hour.

People over the back love the sunshine always out tinkering with wood and playing some music, the second it's dry. It's fairly loud but I like the music he plays it makes me happy. And it's better than listening my my kids agrue haha

Apart from that not much.

OP, in the kindest possible way, you really need to get out more.

All quiet outside, but there's been a muttering about the fence removal around the communal area, and talk of ringing/emailing the council on our what's app group.

No. 15 has knocked on to see if we know who's Audi it is that's parked in his disabled spot (it was the girlfriend of No. 13 in the end).

No. 16 knocked on to say they were going off in the Caravan with the dog but their daughter was staying behind (which means we will get treated to her and her boyfriend's very loud sex once again).

2 ambulances and a police van whizzed past on Blues and twos about an hour ago in the direction of the high street.

A quiet morning so far!

@BumbleFlump

OP, in the kindest possible way, you really need to get out more.

She can’t, there are too many lorries blocking the road!

The sheep in the field opposite are munching away at the grass, there's been a tractor or two go past, also 'The Slaughterer' AKA a neighbours cat. He's just passed with some hapless critter in his mouth. A few MAMILS (middle aged men in lycra) too as I think this lane is now on some cycling app judging by recent numbers. Phew, what a morning !

We live at the end of a lane so I can only see one neighbour who looks like he’s had someone round to look at a car he’s selling.

There have been some squirrels on the feeder but they disappeared when I came outside. A female woodpigeon is studiously ignoring the advances of a suitor.

What’s going on in my street? The French drug dealers are behaving like we’re all in an episode of the wire, the police turn a blind eye, and all the while the traffic warden paroles up and down up and down all day long

I've just got into bed to try and have a sleep ready for my night shift tonight and there is an escapee sheep in the front garden munching on my grass. The cat looks completely freaked out.

I've shouted down to dp to ring the farmer but hoping it munches lots more grass before he gets here.
There is a horse clopping past and the rider is singing quite happy with her little life.

I NEED SLEEP

Nothing. Nothing at all.

Sadly I am unable to update on our street as NDN's 'groundcover' plants have now reached approximately 12 foot in height rendering the rest of the street totally invisible to me.

I see your street and I raise you the cul-de-sac where I live....5 fire engines at the moment due to a barn fire in the field opposite.

Oooh I'm glad you started this thread because I've been wanting to discuss my new neighbours for months. I've been a proper curtain twitcher and I NEED to know what's going on. What do you all make of this?

Last November a family moved in, bang slap opposite my house. I can see into their windows quite clearly as it's a small road. Mum and Dad late 50's or 60ish, and a grown up son. I think they are English but have maybe come back from living in France or Spain. They used international movers but obviously came overland, as they didn't have a shipping container on a truck, just a normal removal truck.

They had a brand new car delivered the day after they moved in, which also goes with my theory about returning from abroad as there was no other car.

I've seen the son come and go a few times, and I've seen the woman put the bins out twice. That's all. Barely a glimpse of her in 6 months. But the man I have NEVER seen leave the house. Not once. He sits in his armchair in the window watching TV and scrolling through his ipad all day and all night long and never seems to go to bed. Every time I get up for a wee in the night, they are always still up. They don't see to go to bed before 2 or 3 am.

The other day a SOLD sign appeared outside their house but the house never even appeared for sale on Rightmove. I know this because I look all the time to see what's for sale in my area. According to rightmove it completed last November for only 6k less than they are now selling it for.

What the hell is that all about? Why waste all that stamp duty and and pay fees twice in six months on a house you've barely settled into? And where are they going now? Are they under witness protection? Do you think he will ever leave the house?

We recently moved to a very quiet street where nothing happens ever, but our old street was fab for action. We had a street WhatsApp group, and if someone was getting a skip delivered or something they'd message everyone in advance to leave the parking space clear. Inevitably when the skip arrived, there'd be a group of the guys out to watch. I miss that!

@SunflowersAndLavender

Oooh I'm glad you started this thread because I've been wanting to discuss my new neighbours for months. I've been a proper curtain twitcher and I NEED to know what's going on. What do you all make of this?

Last November a family moved in, bang slap opposite my house. I can see into their windows quite clearly as it's a small road. Mum and Dad late 50's or 60ish, and a grown up son. I think they are English but have maybe come back from living in France or Spain. They used international movers but obviously came overland, as they didn't have a shipping container on a truck, just a normal removal truck.

They had a brand new car delivered the day after they moved in, which also goes with my theory about returning from abroad as there was no other car.

I've seen the son come and go a few times, and I've seen the woman put the bins out twice. That's all. Barely a glimpse of her in 6 months. But the man I have NEVER seen leave the house. Not once. He sits in his armchair in the window watching TV and scrolling through his ipad all day and all night long and never seems to go to bed. Every time I get up for a wee in the night, they are always still up. They don't see to go to bed before 2 or 3 am.

The other day a SOLD sign appeared outside their house but the house never even appeared for sale on Rightmove. I know this because I look all the time to see what's for sale in my area. According to rightmove it completed last November for only 6k less than they are now selling it for.

What the hell is that all about? Why waste all that stamp duty and and pay fees twice in six months on a house you've barely settled into? And where are they going now? Are they under witness protection? Do you think he will ever leave the house?

There was a stamp duty holiday until recently, wasn't there? So maybe they just needed a place to move to quickly, and then did a proper search once they got moved.

Can't help you with why the bloke never goes out, though - maybe he has nowhere he fancies going, or has a disability that keeps him housebound?

Or they're all spies.

DPD driver just asked if we were Middlebrook Farm [not real name]. Were are not. I have directed them (left out of the drive; first on your right), but held back the information that the owners of Middlebrook Farm were the last but one occupiers of our house. Knowledge is power.

Lovely thread. 😊

My chickens are happily pecking around on the grass and one is making clock-ing sounds as she’s desperate to get back to the coop as she’s feeling broody. I wish she’d quieten down. A healthy looking Fox turned up at 3.20pm yesterday after I got back from school pick up and I chased him off aided by BIG dog who thoroughly enjoyed the chase. He’d better not be back today, the git!

I can see the Sheep mummies with their lambs in the next field down and they’re quietly munching on the grass with the occasional little lamb making a break for it being hotly pursued by his pals. They all run in one direction and then ten seconds later, they’re running in the opposite direction making a lot of bleating noises.

Bins were emptied around 11am and as I walked to the end of the drive, I can see the school playground and briefly watched my DS playing Dodgeball (?) with his classmates. He’s the only one wearing a coat outside even though it’s mild weather here. It’s an odd set up as ours is the only house nearby as the school and church (and us) are surrounded by fields. The village is a mile further down the road. It seems an odd place to build them and the school has definitely been here over 100 years as it says so in a stone in the main wall, so maybe there was a plan to build more houses locally at the time?

I work at the back of the house and there's nothing going on in the gardens that I can see.

But a few doors down on the right the nursery's children are enjoying a loud play in the garden. I love hearing the sound of the little ones having fun, what isn't so fun is the voices of the assistants - they're SO SHOUTY AND LOUD!