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.

Someone was giving away number 18 balloons the other day and I was gutted as it was my grans birthday and they were pink, her favourite colour, but she was turning 81 :(

I've no idea whether there's a street What's App but, if there is, thankfully I'm not part of it. Who could be bothered with this level of trivia? Do people not have lives?

New people are being welcomed to the street and the group, and people are stressed about encroaching brambles from the land behind the houses that the council is supposed to keep under control but doesn't.

That’s rather sneery. This thread is mostly light hearted. Some people live in nice communities and find communicating with neighbours useful and pleasant.

We don't have one as we all hate each other.

It would be lots of passive aggressive comments about owning the section of tarmac outside their home, ranting about people still at work who haven't taken their bin in yet, and swearing about the two dogs that bark all fucking day.

The dildo or the post?

The mystery of The Barking Dog. Barbara is very annoyed about The Barking Dog and is insistent that it's Dave's dog that she can hear. Dave is denying everything and blaming Sheila's dog (which is annoying cos Sheila isn't in the WhatsApp group). I don't give a shit any of this because I can't hear it from my house, but it's very entertaining.

Halloween re-cap, endless fireworks and frightened dogs, fuzzy photo of man and dog because poo was not picked up, Billy Bookcase on offer. Does anyone have room in their green bin?

Regular "please would you move this car" because of scaffolding etc.

My friend is more rural and hers is full of "whose chickens are these in my garden" which I love

Ours is bin collections. The local authority are cutting back on general rubbish collections.

Thankfully we do not have one. There is a resident association one alright but it is one message a year about planting plants.

We get sheep which I was rounding up with my dog when heavily pregnant. The chickens, ducks, geese and guinea fowl would have been mine 😁

We regularly get “can someone contact the farmer? The x is in the y again”.

Missing cat and who has the key to the skip.

We get those but it's always one farmer with a particular nickname whose fencing is erratic and escapable. So the language can get a bit ripe 😁

I have one for the street , one for the ladies in the village and one that I’m not quite sure who’s on it and how far it stretches - all currently quiet

I assume you live in Godric's Hollow?

The cat has it.

The owl has been “founded”.

Ours is mainly the car wash man who has started his own home business but is regularly free to do the job on his drive and is 3 times the price of the local one!

Requests to move a car for a skip/tree clearing/access for a big van.

Best one was when we had 3 alarms that randomly went off, ours was in the middle of the afternoon, my neighbours on both sides in the middle of the night - one neighbour ratted me out and said it was mine but never owned up to the 3am alarm her husband couldn't switch off! I am not petty enough to name and shame them but I seethed!!!

I can confirm that apparently owls do run and they’re incredibly cute doing so!

Love this, even the drama 😅 I’m definitely going to pop something about a WhatsApp group in everyone’s mailboxes and see where it goes! There’s a good few neighbours that will drop extra baking, or lend things, some of us have food and drinks together but we don’t have a WhatsApp.

Ours has two. One is for the whole street and the other for the fun people. It’s a socially divisive time bomb just waiting to explode.

Oh my god I could not handle this level of potential social awkwardness

Ours is very organised with separate groups for bakers, bikers, village pub news, buy/sell/donate as well as general updates. Some of it is quite entertaining, especially when one long standing resident was told off by a newbie about cutting his hedge out of season. The direct and abrupt response was fantastic!!!! The majority of the time though it is taken up by one rather irritating resident who likes to subtly brag about her children's achievements. Last night she was requesting help from a fellow resident to help her sew her daughter's brownie badges onto a jumper as there were so many of them she wouldn't have time to do it. You could have heard a pin drop for quite some time after that post!

Picture of a dog poo that man from next road over leaves in same place every day. Someone picked it up and left it on his doorstep with a note.

Free grass seed.

Someone doing a bonfire just checking nobody has washing out.