Can anyone decipher this handwriting for me?

[DebbieFiderer]

We moved house just under a year ago. We are on nodding terms with the next door neighbours, but have never exchanged names. Now they've sent us a Christmas card with the names on, which should be great, as I won't have to ask them, except I can't read the handwriting! Any ideas? I've cut off the man's name as I can read that, and I can see the last one is Emily, but the other three are a mystery. If it helps, the children are girl, boy, girl.

Steve is the man's name. The OP posted it.

@DebbieFiderer you can't just promise to come back if there's an answer, you have to hunt down an answer

Put it this way, if she was ever to find this thread - and oh how I wish she was a Mumsnetter! - don't you think she'd say gfs why didn't you just knock on the door and ASK ME?

Just put x and family

I read it as Drew, Annie, Liam and Emily

Draic, Amiee, Liam & Emily. I’m assuming that they are possibly French?

Neill, Aimee, Liam and Emily - I'm pretty certain.

Oops. Having seen the second pic. I think it’s Steve, _, Amiee, Liam & Emily

I think its Steve, Demi, Amiee, Liam and Emily. That isn't an R it's just the way she linked the D to the E

I don’t think it’s Demi because of the way the m’s look in Liam and Aimee...they don’t match. I’m not buying Diane either because I can’t see an n!

The spelling of Aimee is definitely French - Amiee

I think it's going to be a name we don't recognise much here! Definitely looks like Drail but I don't think it could be that could it?

Gah it's driving me mad you have to tell us if you ever find out OP!

Also it definitely ends in 'il' - you can see if you compare it to the letters in Liam

Second name is Dave!!! They've accidentally dotted it mid rush.

Or Becci

Dani, it’s Dani

Maybe Dina, looking at it again? There is definitely a dot for an i and the letter after the D looks like the i after the A of Aimee..

I was convinced it was Drew until I found out it was the Mum...

Becci maybe?

Can you send out your kids to make friends with their kids and ask their Mum's name?! 😁

Beccy, Aimee, Liam snd Emily.

I think it’s Becci and she’s written it in a rush. Looks like a left hander too.

The spelling of Aimee is definitely French - Amiee

No, @Biscuitsandteaplease, Aimee IS the French spelling. It means “loved”, it’s the past participle of the verb “aimer”. Strictly speaking there should be an acute accent on the first “e”. Amiee would just be wrong. However Diane/Dani has a habit of dotting the letter i far away from the bottom of the letter so it’s perfectly feasible that the i appears in the name Aimee exactly where it should be.

I can't believe you've still not figured it out! I like the Dani / Dina suggestion.

Give me their address OP, I'll go and knock on their door and ask them!

Best bet would be diane

Dreeic, Amiee, Ulim & fruity

Argh! OP this is infuriating!!

@DebbieFiderer you must come back and give us some sort of update?

Is her name Diane? Or Drecci? It did you opt for something ambiguous??

Drew?!

This has happened to me and I wrote “to you all” the next year in the hope I would get a clearer card back!

@DebbieFiderer do you have kids? If so do they ever play/cross paths with the neighbour kids?

If so enlist them into a asking about the mum's name.