The nicest thing a neighbour has ever done for you?

[Heathofhares]

Neighbours get a really bad rep on here. So I thought I might see if anyone else has lovely neighbours or is it just us?

So for starters not only did the neighbours stay completely positive, in the face of huge disruption during our recent building works, and look after our garden and pets while we were on holiday but they even dealt with the remains of a very pungent dead fox that crawled under our shed to die whilst we were away.

Anyone else have the antithesis of mums net neighbours?

I love this thread!

I also love our next door neighbours, they are amazing, do the usual parcels, parking space sharing etc and are always offering to help. They claim they can never hear us or our very noisy DC. We are moving imminently and I am really, really sad to not have them as our neighbours anymore

I love my neighbours, every one in our close is lovely, there's only one family that keep themselves to themselves and not in a nasty way.

Someone de ices my car every day in winter. No idea who. It's been going on for years, and no matter what shift I work, I go out and my car is ready to go

We live next door to an 85 year old lady. She’s happy go lucky personified, sings to the birds, knits my 3 children jumpers & hats & cuts me fresh pennies from her immaculate garden. When I apologise for what a rowdy rabble we are she says she just likes to hear life and kids over the fence. We couldn’t be luckier to have her.

She cute me fresh ‘peonies’ I meant to say...

I had lovely NDN as a child. They were a little old couple who let me visit all the time, watch TV and help in the garden. I was a bit lonely as a child and home life was sometimes unhappy so it was nice to have a place to go.

One of my neighbours de-ices my car and when I lived on my own another neighbour use to cut my grass and hedges. She was retired and even planted flowers in my garden.

@78percentLindt

I had an elderly beighbour who left a bunch of sweet peas on the doorstep every Friday night when they were in flower. I mentioned I liked them once, so he grew them for me. Still think of him when I see a bunch of sweet peas

So lovely it make me cry !

It is also so wonderful to read about all the lovely elderly neighbours.

My neighbours are travellers so normally get a bad rap but the guy offered to power wash my drive and clean our gutters when he was doing his own. He did a great job and wouldn't accept any money.

I have great neighbours, one with a massive garden & happy for kids to use it. Another who dropped everything and took me & LO to hospital when LO was in shock and hurt.
I don't know what I wanted our neighbour to do when I shouted him. But he looked at the injury and immediately said I'll drive. Such a relief as my fear was LO would start screaming or faint while I was driving.

I only have one neighbour (and her noisy teenage kids). They wouldn’t do anything nice if their lives depended on it!

I live in a street which would get laughed at if it was in a movie as an unlikely set up of overly lovely people.
It’s in outer London and very diverse. My neighbours are from Nigeria, Cameroon, Italy, Poland, India, Pakistan, Spain. We share food and watch each other’s children. We look out for elderly people in the street and shop for each other. We recycle things amongst ourselves. We weed and clean the street and defrost each other’s cars.
Over lockdown one set of children set up a ‘herb shop’ where they grew all different herbs and you just had to text your order and they would come running round with a little bunch (free).
It’s not true that Londoners are unfriendly!

My neighbours used to look after my children in school hols and babysit - for free!!!! Obviously big gifts were given to say thanks.

They also are the 1st go to when we need a, white sock and sequins for glove puppets and other creative activities.

We feed each others pets when away. I change their light bulbs, sort out their dodgy TV reception, fix kitchen cupboard doors etc.

I have leukaemia and when not on form they sit with me, let me snooze, not feel alone on the bad days.

They also drive me bonkers, sooooo opionated. But I love them.

Neighbours get a really bad rep on here

I disagree. Bad neighbours get a deserved bad reputation on here.
Nicest thing a neighbour has ever done for us is when my eldest DC was tiny and very ill. I knocked on his door asking if I could use his phone to ring 111 late one evening and he drove me to the hospital himself.

Neighbours moved in the July after I was 18. Not long after I was out in the garden and one asked me to get my mother. I did, then hung around just inside being nosy.

I was called out again. It was A-Level results day, they'd heard my results and had decided to open a bottle of Harrods champers they'd bought for the Millennium to congratulate me. I sat on the rabbit hutch drinking bubbly! Considering they barely knew us it was so sweet and generous!

The family after them used to look out for mum, taking her gifts at Eid and inviting her for meals all the time. They also made sure they had alcohol in for her (though he would drink with her if wider family weren't there! ).

They even put up with my (usually very nervy) cat gatecrashing a bbq they'd invited us to despite the wife being petrified of cats and effectively trapped in her house. We did leave early, though!

Mum's current neighbours are amazing though. They take such good care of her and go above and beyond every day. Picking her up from the hospital at 3 am was probably the least of it.

Lovely neighbours here! We are all helpful, taking in parcels, putting bins out when we’re away etc, my lovely Muslim neighbour gives us food during Ramadan and a card at Christmas. No problem with loud music, shouting etc. I’m so lucky when I read about the horrendous neighbours people have to put up with on here.

Our neighbors brought us over dinner every night during the whole of Ramadan

I used to live next door to a lovely couple with two boys just a couple of years older than my DS. Sometimes we'd all meet up at the park at the end of the road. I used to look after their cat when they went away. They gave me outgrown stuff for DS and when I was having a meltdown one morning the mum completely lied and said she never heard me shouting at DS and that it would be OK and it was hard and she understood :) I heard them shout at their kids sometimes so I know she heard me! But it was a very kind thing to say when I was very stressed with toddler antics.

We're friendly with either side and opposite.We lend each other power tools ladders etc and look out for each others properties.
My colleague moved house to live next door to her previous neighbour as they got on so well

My childhood street was brilliant we all got together for ny eve,bonfire night etc

Our street is like @Member589500’s too. Our neighbours are French, Polish, Moroccan, Romanian, Algerian, Sri Lankan, Serbian, Cameroonian.

When I still lived with my parents I had a car crash while they were on holiday that wrote the car off and left me with bad whiplash, and the next door neighbours kept popping around to see if I was ok.

@Member589500

I live in a street which would get laughed at if it was in a movie as an unlikely set up of overly lovely people. It’s in outer London and very diverse. My neighbours are from Nigeria, Cameroon, Italy, Poland, India, Pakistan, Spain. We share food and watch each other’s children. We look out for elderly people in the street and shop for each other. We recycle things amongst ourselves. We weed and clean the street and defrost each other’s cars. Over lockdown one set of children set up a ‘herb shop’ where they grew all different herbs and you just had to text your order and they would come running round with a little bunch (free). It’s not true that Londoners are unfriendly!

This sounds wonderful.