What are the BEST and WORST things your neighbours have done for you?

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That's about it really - just wanted to know.

LOUD music not love!

Gone home for study leave/end of term.Bastard students.:)

Worst - contacted the enforcement dept of planning control to complain about a brick wall built in my garden, less than knee high (had just completed building work, all permitted, approved etc.- nothing like MrsdeVere's neighbours I swear). According to my neighbour it was because she deemed it unsafe and she was now overlooked, which surprised me as we live in terraces houses in a city where all the neighbours can see everything!
Ironically this lovely neighbour now won't talk to me and is known by her son's girlfriend as mother Grim. Have I shared too much (oh whoops) .

Best is the friendships I have with old and new neighbours. Can't knock it can you, a lazy glass of wine and a chat, passing on children's clothes, helping with forty motors, babysitting that kind of stuff. Perfect.

Dodgy motors, not forty!

I live in a semi and the adjoining neighbours are not there very often as its a second home for them. They can be noisy when they're there but it is so rare we don't mind. And we can be noisy whenever we like :)

The worst thing they do is that they're never there on bin days so I have to put out and then put away double the number. And as we have four bins it can be a pain.

I stored their new loo in our shed for a week when the numpty delivery driver brought it on the wrong day.

'I will throw a f-ing brick through your f-ing window and make sure it hits your f-ing kids'. Direct quote from (one of) the worst neighbours I ever had. Said (shouted) in front of kids!

Best, random little kindnessess, like a bottle of wine when I need cheering up, just knowing I can knock on certain peoples doors and know they will help in any way they can. That means a lot.

My neighbours found me sobbing in the street over the body if my cat ( killed by a car) the husband went and found me a box and a blanket. When I started to bring a bucket of water out to clean the road (sob) his wife took it out of my hands and insisted in doing it for me with bleach and a broom - I was just bawling !! They were both very kind and offered me a cup of tea etc

Alerted us to the fact a pigeon had wandered into out bedroom through an open window then helped get said pigeon out of said bedroom

I'm a living saint with the mad old witch next door - as in shopping for her, running round every time she bangs on the wall (which is her code for "Hassled! Get here now!", picking her up when she falls over etc.

In return she's given me bile and a stready stream of criticism. The odd laugh (she is such a cow it can be quite funny), in fairness.

She's 96 and appears to be immortal.

hassled you are a the definition of a good neighbour.
My neighbours are both alcoholics, with teenage kids, they sleep all day and start cooking at about 11 at night, singing and smoking in the garden, which is next to my kitchen. They're ok, just a shame as I'd love someone on my wavelength who I could have more of a chat with.
The ones on the other side are middle class do gooders, we just don't get on.

Best - drove me and my husband to the hospital when I had my DD.

Worst - banging on my window when an estate agent was showing people around my house to tell her to move her car from outside his house. It is all on road parking but he has mental issues about parking outside his house despite his household having three cars! He then said to the viewers - "You aren't thinking of buying that house are you, the parking is a nightmare." The parking isn't a nightmare if you can accept you don't always get to park directly outside your house! They were the first and only viewers so far :-(. I'm looking forward to not being his neighbour soon.

My old neighbor knocking on my door loudly and waking me up at 6am cos my cat had done a poo in her garden!

My neighbor used his 4-by-4 to pull my car out of a muddy common, another really fed and looked after me and my baby while my house was undergoing lots of work. Evening baby sitting, shared lifts to school, cat feeding, emergency childcare, nights out together and lots of laughs.

Best - when our pipe froze and exploded, they came and fixed it.

Worst (other side) - had a dog which barked constantly, they'd go out and leave it from 7 in the morning until the evening. Poor dog.

Best: My old neighbour sat with me in A&E until 4am when I was unwell.

Worst: noisy bastards! (not the same neighbour) Seems mild compared to some of yours though.

Best - When I went away on a long backpacking trip to South America, a week after I left, my neighbour and I both got broken into. My door was kicked in leaving a big hole. My neighbour sorted out getting the doors repaired and the locks changed, put everything on her credit card without complaint until the insurance sorted us out and by the time I got home everything looked normal again.
Worst - a neighbour of ours was just awful, having really loud sex, he also used to come home drunk and sing loudly and tunelessly to his ipod and I used to have to wait until he passed out in a drunken haze to get to sleep.

Our current neighbour is a widower and is such a sweet man. he pulls our bins back up our drive so I don't have to and regularly offers to help bring stuff in from the car. We've had various cups of tea with him and he's such a sweetie.

Worst: someone had a domestic and got stabbed(not badly). Wasn't right next door but in the same cul-de-sac. We had just put our house on the Market! We live in a very rural town btw...

Worst - don't know where to start, they were the neighbours from hell and took great pleasure in terrifying my eldest ds (who was only 18 months when it all started), shouting abuse at us all, damaging our house, garden and car...

Best - they moved out!!!

Worst - waking me up at 7.30 having a new door installed and constantly stamping about

Best - bringing me a bottle of wine to say thanks for letting her go through our garden to wake up her husband

I don't have neighbours here but in my last place the worst was she was a childminder and screamed constantly at her kids all day and all night. It drove me insane.

Best was neighbour previously who looked after our animals and provided a second home for our cat whenever we went away or she couldn't be bothered to cross the road for tea!

best - cleaned poo off stairs (youngest was 1) whilst I dealt with an unexpected emergency when I was in middle of changing nappy!

worst - knocked alot on door when drunk and wanted to chat. Not bad in itself but it was a drunken whisper... and we all know drunks cant whisper!

Best - when I was working abroad and my OH was woken up by burglars threatening him with a machete to get his car keys. Our lovely neighbours across the street insisted he move in with them for a few days until I got home as he was very traumatised. They're close friends now. :)

Worst - when I moved to a new city and my friend and I got a really trendy apartment bang in the centre. The teenager from hell moved in next door (funded by daddy he told me) and ten of his mates soon became permanent residents. They dressed like Ali G, but very skinny and pimply versions, we found them quite funny at first. But there was dance music all night and they used to egg and stone people and their cars from their balcony. It took months to get them evicted.

You mean my neighbours who are always getting drug raids, waking up at 5AM having a heart attack because you thought a gunshot went off when it was just the door kicking down? Or the time the guy a few years older than me was so hopped up on ice he put a roast dinner in every letter box on our street?

Yeah, I love em!

our worst neighbours had ther head board banging against the wall every night from they moved till i went out and said can you remove your head board if u insist on having sex every night