To be slightly weirded out by our new neighbours

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So we've just moved to a new rural location. Without wanting to sound judgemental, there's a lot of odd behaviour around.

There's a family down the road with 8 kids. Not kidding, once a day they bong a great bloody bell and then the parents supervise the children doing some sort of highly regimented folk dance on the front lawn. I'm not sure where they are from but they all wear quite distinctive regional clothes.

Then there's another poor bloke down the road who I think might be some kind of hoarder. He's basically out and about all day on a weird customised bicycle collecting stones. No idea what he does with them.

At least it's pretty quiet at nighttime, everyone seems to be in bed by about 7. Save for one hyperactive young lad who's always bouncing around the streets long after everyone else has turned in...

Anyway AIBU for finding it all a bit odd?

OP, that's brilliant. There must be so many novels in your new location!!!

At least the public transport is good though.

Do you like next to makka pakka, the Watingers and the pontypines?

I may have visited your neighbourhood when my children were younger, sadly these days they idolise a little thug in a striped jumper with a vicious dog whose gang terrorises that lovely boy down the road with the glasses. One of them seems to keep a potato a pet.

I'm very concerned about my dc's future aspirations, if only they were more like that nice boy Walter.

Am I the only one that read the OP and thought 'Norfolk'

Disclaimer: I bloody love Norfolk, we have friends who live in a little hamlet, we descend on them regularly, and I would kill to be able to retire up there.

Do those three chaps ever take their hair rollers out.

OP, what's a "highly regimented" folk dance?

Do you also have one of those awful curtain twitchers that sneer and gossip about everyone...oh...hold on!

Yeah. I'm pretty sure the civil aviation authority should be informed about that strange air balloon contraption. I swear the farty noises it makes means it's unsafe.

Some people really aren't getting it.....

Saucing - I don't, not everyone knows everything that has been written or produced. Are you willing to share what I am supposed to be getting?

Half the people on this thread...

• That was supposed to be to saucony

This is why MN should only be for parents. ALL parents (with a child aged between about 0 and 10) would get this. Oh and in the UK..with a TV...

Perhaps too many restrictions there.

As you were...

I bet the train service is totally unreliable as well.

Thank fuck dd 2 never liked this.

I had several years of the four different coloured dudes who lived in a hill, living on toast and spent their days watching tv. I think they were students but God knows what in as their use of the English language was limited to eh-oh, bye-bye and a mindless song.

Are the Teletubbies still around? I remember my youngest sister being obsessed. Now, they were fucking weird.

Duck90 In The Night Garden.

I got it despite not being a parent. But only because I am honorary auntie to several children. And that programme freaks me out. I speak as someone who grew up in London, has lived in large northern cities, spent some time in one of the flattest counties and currently lives in the most sparsely populated county in England. I watch the Horror Channel on my own. But nothing is as bad as some of the stuff on CBBs.

Ah I miss village life.
My village, inspired the TV series The League of Gentlemen.
So I'm down with a bit of weird

Christ it must of been a long day for me....read at least 10 posts before I got it

Yep. I am so lost here