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.

Mine spied on me and then reported back to stbxh who used the information to intimidate and control me

MissMitten yours is much more fun

Great thread - been meaning about my lovely neighbours for ages.

All of my neighbours in my close are soooo lovely!

A fact I didn't discover until becoming single again about 18 months ago.

Left side next door have become my firm friends for dinners, barbecues, nights out, shopping trips at weekends etc.

Right side next door, two old boys love both of my cats almost as much as I do and are forever giving me tins of food for them and keep offering to lie for me if the cats ever need the vet (as in pretending they're theirs for benefit related PDSA treatment)

Neighbour three doors up comes and cuddles and feeds my cats whenever I need her to, gives me herbs to put in my garden and is generally a very practical soul who knows what to do about most things/life situations.

Loads more but it's getting boring now no doubt :)

Worst one was a guy nicknamed 'randy reg' a caretaker in a very small block of flats I lived in when much younger (and more naive)

Should have been very wary when I introduced myself in the first week to have him earnestly inform me that he liked to be naked after 9pm and to expect to see him errrrm, tackle out if I knocked on his door for anything after that time.

Turned out to be a bit of a pest that one (no surprise really after that intro) and I learned to either keep a plate of food at the ready or put my coat on every time he knocked on my door (which was nightly, sometimes more in the end)

I hope they don;t offer them any beef flavour Bibi

Randy Reh sounds horrendous!

Best-take in parcels whether asked to or not

Worst-called in Social Services when DD came home with her teacher one day and closed all the curtains and made loud noises from the upstairs .

Ooh, hello reg whooshwhoosh, fancy seein you here just having my dinner in my outdoor jacket (as you do) so can't
stop I'm afraid.....

best - painted our new fence, their side and ours. Worst - used our bins when theirs was full. Different properties and neighbours though.

Fences are a sore point here. When we moved to our present house we offered to replace the fence between us and neighbours as it is old and won't last much longer. He refused even though we were going to pay for it and then wrote a nasty letter purporting to ban us from touching his fence. Ok then we thought - you pay. Two yrs later fence still there and in even worse state. Not going to help now.

Hi there, 1st time on Mumsnet and logged on to see if others have experienced events of today. Only son playing out with a friend only to be told off by neighbour who said that he wasn't to set one foot on the pavement outside her house or touch the lamp post - bizarre! Very quiet area, no noise so not a problem I thought for him to walk and play quietly but apparently so. Spent all afternoon with child, normally very resilient, who is worried about playing out?

Old house nothing except let their daughters bully DS (bitch) oh and told me "its not my fault you rent your house" stuck up cow!!

Here they're great one neighbour does loads of little jobs for me ie putting up hooks for hanging baskets, fixing my new gate on, screwing plant pots to wall.

I repay him by putting his bins out for him, putting plants in his pots getting DS to help him with his garden baking him cakes and making him christmas dinner

Old neighbours brought our bins in every week for 10 years, took in packages regularly and bought us christmas cards and the occassional bottle of wine :)

Can't think of a 'worst' - guess we've been very lucky!

Best thing was that she dropped dead. Worst things were the malicious lies she told about me to others.

Best: Asked me if i'd lost an Ipod when i'd left it on the bin outside, not knowing that i'd left it their i said erm..no? They insisted that i had and gave it me back. Lovely.

Worst: (Same People) - Noisy all the time, couldn't be in the garden after 8:00pm at night, as standing their was too much noise. Threatening to kill each other on a regular basis, Stealing council benches, all sorts.

Nothing exciting. I ask my elderly neighbour if she wants anything from asda every fri, give her a lift into town and she gives me random plants and flowers and the dc's a few pennies or a biscuit. She actually cried when I told her I was moving in 3 weeks

We have never had bad neighbours - but then I am a really good neighbour so maybe thats why? lol

I am childminder to the son of the couple on one side of us now (and to the two children who lived there before them lol) and my lovely MIL lives on the other side.

Lovely lady few doors up gave me a load of nappies her lo had grown out off when my ds2 arrived last year. Not so lovely ex neighbour in the house conversion I used to live in stole my identity and opened up several shopping accounts in my name . Police raided her flat one day and found several £thousands worth of designer shopping still in its bags scattered around her bedroom . She did a bunk before she could be formerly charged

We moved to a rural location ten years ago. Older lady neighbour was too mean to empty the septic tank in her courtyard through a specialist firm so got the local farmer to do it. It sprayed into our garden - we had young children - and I had to pick up bits of used toilet paper.

Farmer then spread human waste on the nearby fields, contaminating everyone's washing and making our garden's unusable.

Had an out of control dog stay with her which began barking at the crack of dawn and did not stop until after midnight. She kenelled it level with my childrens' windows and refused to put the poor, distressed dog in the house.

Yet she insists we have been "selfish" since we moved in a decade ago because we have grown a hedge to stop the other neighbours in the small courtyard she owns sitting on our wall looking into our garden and grooming their dog on the wall and throwing it's discarded hair into our garden. Her tubby middle aged husband stated they were naturists and we (and our now teenage girls) should accept this as complaining upset them.

Our lovely neighbour in our far more modest previous home mowed my lawn, fed my dog, warned me when he saw my mother heading towards the house, and let us use his garage. Be careful what you wish for!

Worst - neighbours we have now; he makes sexually suggestive remarks, watches me from their landing window and last year leaned over our garden fence and groped my breasts! At the time I felt no-one would believe me if I said anything so I said nothing!

Elsie your so right,Ive lived all over uk from cities to small towns no probs with any neighbours...Now live in a lovely rural spot and have cctv helpfully installed by police due to a nut job neighbour who unfortunatly has all her family living in the same area,Ive even been told to f* back to where you came from and the classic 'your not from round here' which i thought was just for soap opera script writers!.

Worst - kept all the care packages my friend had sent from England to his number by mistake, and he ate all the Creme Eggs and Jaffa Cakes. He's all charm!