to wish we could play out in the back garden unobserved?

[TriangularEarrings]

My 3 (DTs 8yo and DS2 5yo) love to play out in the garden most days after school with our dog.
I generally join in and we have jolly good fun winding down, playing games, having wacky races, hide and go seek, lots of imaginative adventurous play and so on.
The silly old dog just tends to faff around digging and redigging his bone lol, all-in-all happy times.
The problem is, the old guy who lives next door - he's ever so friendly and we chat a fair bit, you know, neighbourly stuff. But the second he hears any action outside, he's there peaking over the top of the fence with his little JTR yapping bouncing alongside him.
TBH I know he's doing a U3A creative writing course and I am now worried that we're being targeted as characters for a story the amount of observing he's doing lol. We have a lovely lifestyle, nice house, holidays, lots of different friends around for fun and japes - I can see why we'd make good retro reading iyswim?
AIBU to wish for some alone time?

[Wallace]

Anyway, didn't you say you were planning to move house?

IIRC you said it was a nice big old house with a huge garden, so you'll have no nosy neighbour then!

[Wallace]

where has the op gone?

[HeadfirstForHalos]

He has no chance with Gran she's too "hardass" and cool for him with her motorbike and leathers!

[WorraLiberty]

This is a jolly wind up right?

[eandemum]

Does he sometimes lose his glasses and they are foung hovering mid air somewhere!

[Wallace]

If I were you, OP, I would be a bit freaked out by how much people on here seem to know about you and your neighbour. Time for a name-change, perhaps?

[Roseflower]

So... what is the punchline then?

[HeadfirstForHalos]

I know everything about the OPs' family! [sinister emoticon]

[Merrin]

:o