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?

In my defence, my baby is still inside and doesn't watch much TV.

Oh right it's about a tv programme, thank goodness. I was feeling all sorry for your neighbours!

Yep. I am so lost here confused

Stay that way. Do not look up In The Night Garden. Seriously. I can watch Jeepers Creepers on my own. The Omen does not bother me. I don't even mind that film with the truck that ate people and that Australian actor who was Chris's boyfriend on Neighbours. But In the Night Garden? Dear lord. Just no.

Do any of your neighbours have massive, inflatable shapes that bounce around the village like something out of The Prisoner?

Brilliant post op. Just brilliant. Took me a while to get it and disappointed it's not real

The first time I sat down with DD to watch ITNG I thought I had had my tea spiked....

Igelei - well then if you feel that way, so be it. I will delete my account. How uneducated of me not to recognise "in the night garden" , I bow down to the clever parents like you.

Ah, my son is 16 now but I still recognised In The Night Garden instantly!

And yes to the floozy, will someone teach her to keep her blinking skirt down?!

The big family seem to use unconventional entrances to the house.

You're not missing anything important, Pinkandblue.

There's worse programs on cbeebies the awful awful Waybuloo but if you've got an In The Night Garden obsessed toddler, that program can wear thin very quickly.

Had a pretty dark dream about that place once. Flamethrower in one hand chainsaw in the other

I hate your village and neighbours with a passion, OP.

Conversation with that lot must be a joy - endless repetition of their name over and fucking over.
Pretty certain that farty zeppelin thing is violating many aerospace laws.
Creators of these programmes must drop a serious amount of acid.

Brilliant OP.

Anyone remember the Boobahs? Now that was a strange program. Or Button moon.

Our village has the worst postman ever; packages are always arriving late, damaged or open. He uses ridiculous modes of transport for menial tasks and seems to be doing 3 or 4 different jobs when he should be working. He's single-handedly responsible for the demise of royal mail.

There's a little girl who lives near me, about five or six, who's always roaming around by herself with nothing but a pet monkey for company. She's a bright girl, and bilingual, but she shouts instead of talks and whatever the weather she wears shorts and a t shirt. She also seems obsessed with the contents of the large rucksack she has with her at all times.

I wanted this to be a real place.