What is happening on your street WhatsApp?

[Poppingby]

I'm nosey.

On mine, somebody is asking whether a wandering cat is lost (answer: no, as usual) and someone else's delivery has been nicked from outside their house. They are warning us to rethink our safe places.

No street WhatsApp groups anywhere round here. Didn't even know there were such things.

Every day's a school day 😄

Lots of people are sorting through toys in preparation for the end of year and giving away stuff that is still in good shape.

Before that it was instructions about Trick or Treating and pictures of the kids at the houses

Before that people were giving away fruit from their trees.

Also updates about the health of pets and introduction of a new puppy.

Some announcements on who is getting works done and to WhatsApp them if a van is in the way.

I love our group, it's full of positivity and sharing.

Don’t have such a thing.

Someone asking us all for shoeboxes.

It's Love in a Box season 😂

Ours was created a couple of years ago as our lane (7 houses) got cut off and lost power for a few days. Some of the neighbours are elderly so the local alpha male (classic fat white middle aged man with a much younger Thai bride) created it, much to the admiration of most.

Currently our immediate neighbour is very cross with us for reasons I can't figure out. While reversing the other day to get out of the way of the bin lorry, I clipped her food waste bin and knocked the top off. I refitted it and went on my way. She's posted several times to the group with passive aggressive comments about her 'broken bin'. I think she knows it's me, but I'm not owning up to it and it's not broken anyway.

Other recent posts include missing parcels, Xmas travel dates of the alpha male and leaf litter clogging the road drains. It's a riveting read

I don’t know because I can’t think of anything worse tbh… on the Facebook community group however is the usual, dog poo, fireworks and acting ghastly when the local co-op’s delivery ain’t been but everyone is convinced it’s closing down 😂 also a lot of ‘anyone know who’s house this is because my parcel was delivered there” posts 😅

Somebody is outraged because a bike has been tied to their railings. It’s quite a nice bike to be fair. But they are threatening to.’get a locksmith out’ 😅
@fromthechandelier local alpha male 🤣🤣🤣

What an excellent thread. Our neighbours have been organising the bonfire night get together for tomorrow and saying what food/drink they will bring

The only two messages since the weekend have been from people trying to reunite bits of Halloween costume with their owners, so photos of witches’ hats and an abandoned bucket shaped like a pumpkin.

The usual moaning about “have you seen my cat?” “Can everyone search their sheds as Whiskers didn’t come home last night?”

Honestly 50% of the village WhatsApp is cat owners bleating on about their cats. The rest is potholes and blurry Ring doorbell images of misdelivered Amazon parcels.

Whose tabby cat is this? It was scratching at the door and looked cold, we’ve let it back out now, but want to make sure it’s got home

Met someone at the weekend whose parents live on the same street as me. She was saying, wow your street’s WhatsApp group has it all going on doesn’t it? I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. Apparently the group was started during covid and has since thrived. Lived here for 22 years and didn’t know anything about a WhatsApp group. Is everyone but me in a group? Fascinated to see what I’m missing.

Recommendation for a local handyman, and leftover sweets from
Halloween.

Oh we also have Horace the neighbourhood cat who refused to move out when his owner moved. He now just lets himself into peoples houses and fills his boots. Occasionally Deb who has kind of taken over his care manages to track him down and take him to the vets out of the goodness of her heart. People will share his last known location to enable this and keep her updated on his health. It really is a lovely group

The highlight on mine today was that someone's snake has escaped! I've spent most of the day googling how snakes enter houses and feel pretty nervous that's it's going to strangle us as we sleep

We had someone say that in the early hours of the morning their jacket had been stolen from their car and did anyone have any CCTV. Person B then posted CCTV of a man going in the boot of a car. Person C points out that’s her husband, going in the boot of his own car to get their bags out after they returned from holiday.

Someone has heard a noise. Not sure what it is. No one else is sure either.

Someone’s trying to shift a bag of straw and there’s talk of a local road closure…

Classic

I think a WHOLE VILLAGE WhatsApp might outdo even my capacity for everyday happenings.

We don’t have a street WhatsApp but a building Facebook group (over a hundred apartments). Most recently it’s been people giving away furniture, people passing on baby toys, organising trick or treating, cheering on marathon runners, organizing a group booking for heating system maintenance, asking for cleaning lady recommendations, dog walking and personal trainer recommendations, reminding people to vote and posting maps of polling stations, fundraising for the local library, organising a Christmas food drive. Soon it’ll be organizing holiday meals for staff who have to work over the holidays. Mix of babies right ho to elderly folk, dogs and cats. People are sensible and respectful. There was a collective losing of minds when a peregrine falcon was photographed sitting outside a window on the 30th floor! Pretty cool.

For ours one of the neighbours put a note through when we moved in. There's no pressure though. The house at the start of the street isn't in the group and doesn't join street events.

it's a very sociable street. Halloween party, Christmas party, Easter party. Apparently they find an excuse for a street party every year - they always hope for a royal event as it's easier to get a road closure permit from the council when there's a royal event apparently 😂

There's only 16 houses in the street so it's not tonnes of people.

We don’t have one (thankfully)

It is unpleasant. We like our neighbours (hence ignoring the wind chime) and this has startled them. I think they feel better knowing we also get unhinged notes every time our privet hedge breaches the footpath boundary - puts it more in the “nutter” category, not the “my neighbours hate me” category.