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to brag about my ndn

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thesnailandthewhale · 07/08/2017 17:39

As there seem to be an influx of cfn's around recently I wanted to give a shout out to my rather lovely neighbour. I moved house at the end of April and the lady who lived here before me left me a new home card, inside it she said the thing she would miss most about living here was the wonderful neighbour next door. She was not wrong, he is a star. He brings my bins in each week for me while I'm at work, (and 3 other neighbours bins too), he offers to take stuff to the tip if he's going. When I moved in he popped round to introduce himself and offered free rein of his tools / empty wheelie bins etc :)

This week I have had a large hedge removed from the front garden and he came round with an envelope in, offering to pay towards the cost of it. I thanked him but politely declined as it was on my property, he said he was just so grateful for the thing to be gone as he's struggled getting off his drive due to the size of it for years.

Today I came home to find he is out there digging the bit where the hedge was so that it looks nice :) He reminds me of my (long since departed) Grandad, a genuine kind soul who wants to look out for, and help, anyone.

If the estate agent had added £££ 's on to the house price purely based on the neighbour it would have been worth every penny, he is an absolute angel already

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Booboobooboo84 · 07/08/2017 17:41

My neighbour is amazing, she gives me her house key and I can watch her sky and eat her Freya bentos pies anytime I like. Legend

Namechangetempissue · 07/08/2017 17:42

I have the best neighbours ever too, I'm so lucky. The whole cul de sac are wonderful -helpful, kind, not at all intrusive.

UserThenLotsOfNumbers · 07/08/2017 17:54

After having the neighbours from hell in our last place, I am so thankful for our wonderful present neighbours. We are all friends and look out for each other. Couldn't ask for nicer neighbours.

GhostCurry · 07/08/2017 17:56

My old neighbour brought me an incredible sourdough loaf she'd made

Moanyoldcow · 07/08/2017 18:04

Lovely! I have two sets of very nice neighbours, one retired couple and one couple with two children. Both are kind to my son, helpful and very accommodating.

I hope they'd say the same about us but they would certainly complain that our garden is a state.

Aspieparent · 07/08/2017 18:08

I have a wonderful neigbour on one side we are great friends look out for each other and are children are friends.

Other sides another matter in the 18 months we have beem living here they have beem trying to drive us out they wanted the house for their family but we got it first. They are loud put their dog in my garden to do its business, they torment my children and have now started leaning over the fence and opening my front door.

VodkaLimeSoda27 · 07/08/2017 18:13

Aw, so nice to hear this. My last neighbour in the UK was amazing. He lived in the flat next door and was so kind- he used to work nights and I came home one day and my burglar alarm was going off and wouldn't stop, some electrical problems. He got up from bed and helped me stop the noise, called the management company and got them to sort it out.

He bought us some lovely wine when we told him we were moving to the US and was just a good guy- my DH worked away a lot then and he told me to just knock on his door if I was ever worried about anything.

one2three4five · 07/08/2017 18:14

My neighbours are lovely too, love them! Technically they live opposite, so not exactly neighbours, but I still count them They are currently away on holiday and I'm looking after their 20 chickens (I have eggs coming out of my ears!), but it looks like we're going to lose two of them as they are poorly, I feel so bad!

MrsChopper · 07/08/2017 18:15

trinitybleu · 07/08/2017 18:18

We have great ndn too.... They practically beam with delight at being asked to feed the cats. Her because she wants a cat and him because borrowing ours means he can say no to them having their own for a while longer

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 07/08/2017 18:20

We have lovely neighbours.
We really should move as our house is getting too big for us and I can't manage the garden, but I can't bear to leave our neighbours!

Cleanermaidcook · 07/08/2017 18:30

Aw yay for lovely neighbours ☺
My neighbours are lovely, older couple on one side always lovely, bring my bins in, lovely people. The old guy is so patient with dd, they spend hours together in his garage working on his vintage car, they always make time for both children and buy them birthday and Christmas gifts and easter eggs.
The couple on the other side are very nice too, always have time for a chat over the fence and again give gifts to the dc's birthdays and Christmas. Both sets came to our wedding, love them. 😊

MissionItsPossible · 07/08/2017 18:32

They are loud put their dog in my garden to do its business, they torment my children and have now started leaning over the fence and opening my front door.

Erm, they're doing WHAT now?

HazelBite · 07/08/2017 18:35

My neighbour is lovely, she is in her eighties adores both of my cats, I invite her and her "boyfriend" whenever we have a party.

nikiforov · 07/08/2017 18:38

My parents have decent neighbours. Even though it was "our" side the guy who lived next to us paid in full for a fence to be put up (and refused payment of half of the cost because it was on our side) because his dog kept escaping and they needed a full 2m fence around the property. We painted it, but that's really NBD

Other NDN is generally nice and though she stole our cat, she does offer to pay half his vet bills.

GreeboIsACutePussPuss · 07/08/2017 18:39

My NDN is a lovely older lady, who as far as I can work out has hundreds of grand children and great grandchildren and extended family (this may be an exaggeration but there's definitely a lot of different small children) she drops round cake every time one visits for their birthday and every time she bumps into DD(8) a boiled sweet appears out her handbag. She knows I run a rainbow unit so occasionally appears with things she thought we might be able to use (mostly left over craft bits, 50 of those plastic balls you put washing liquid in, a stack of very pretty ice cream tubs etc) and she had all her friends and her entire family collecting sainsburys vouchers for me

nowaynoway · 07/08/2017 18:46

My ndn's are both ok, one side a couple a similar age to me (30ish) with a gorgeous dog and the other side an older couple who mum knew years ago. The next door but one neighbour on the one side are lovely- mid twenties girl and her bf and their 2 yo. All ok but I miss the community feel of where I grew up.

Aspieparent · 07/08/2017 18:50

Erm, they're doing WHAT now? hmmhmmshock
I know its shocking. I don't witnessmost of it as my living room windows on back of my house but my neighbours across street whis living room window is on front all tell me its them. We have approached them but they say they don't speak english when they do. Reported them to and we got a telling of from council for not approacjing them when we tried. What can you do?

LTBiscuit · 07/08/2017 18:50

That's so lovely! I'm extremely envious. Ours could be worse, but aren't great

SafeToCross · 07/08/2017 18:52

Our neighbours have put in a beautiful new fence (we did help with the labour) and cut back their large trees - I love my garden again now and am very kindly disposed to them now.

chickenowner · 07/08/2017 18:53

Our neighbours look after our chickens when we go away.

CocoLoco87 · 07/08/2017 18:55

booboo

ginjin · 07/08/2017 18:57

We love our neighbour too. We only have one, and it would be utterly miserable if they were a nightmare. They put up with our dog wandering into their garden, and then put up with our ugly sheep netting to keep him out until we get round to building a fence. Their garden is immaculate, but they never complain about our jungle. They strim our grass edges for us whenever they do theirs, and come out to offer garden tools if they see me struggling.

They feed the cat for us whenever we ask, but also water our garden without us asking if they notice it going dry. They put our bins out and bring them in every single week. They chat over the fence but they're never intrusive or nosey. They never moan about our dog barking. They take parcels in... God, I love them. They told us they're delighted we moved here, and don't want us to leave. I've got no idea why, but im not complaining!

thecatneuterer · 07/08/2017 19:07

I seem to have a whole street of nice neighbours. Yesterday I came home to find a marrow and some courgettes from an allotment outside my door. Other people leave cat food outside my door if their cat has gone off a flavour or doesn't like one flavour in a box say.

I borrowed a tent off one the other day. We all feed each others' cats when we go away. We sometimes go to local events together. When I look at the houses on my street I've been inside more of them than I haven't been inside.

And this is London, which is supposed to be unfriendly.

glitterglitters · 07/08/2017 19:11

Not my ndn (though our ndn is brilliant and never complains about my screaming children and pretends he doesn't hear them 😂) but my fil is like this for his neighbours.

He does favours, he bakes, hides the birthday presents and Christmas presents for neighbours, visits the elderly and takes them dvds etc. Plus is a goddamn saint in my eyes.

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