@FatherTedsBankAccount
Oh ffs. I am an incredibly private person who hates the idea of being watched by nosy neighbours. People like you are my worst nightmare. What they are doing, unless it directly affects your property or your life in a direct way, is simply absolutely none of your business.
Exactly this.
A street where we lived had a frightful snoop who was forever at her upper window, morning, noon and night, whenever one went home, there she was, like a wraith behind the nets, index finger crooked for a better gawk.
The gossip she spread was indescribable.
She made people's lives a misery, a one woman Neighbourhood Watch.
'Ooh, Who is that you were walking up the avenue with? Not seen 'ee before''
''Ohh, An ambulance was called for number 56, wonder what 'ee done?''Do you think ee tried to kill isself?''
That boy at 18 hasn't a girlfriend yet, he came home at 'alf past one last night, I heard the gate squeak, got out of bed for a look''
Terrible busy body.
The house next door to us was empty for over a year, the same people coming and going. .Blissfully quiet.
Curtains drawn, {Old lady's house who sadly died} but the new owners took a long time moving in, {over a year}.
Perhaps they had a weed farm going in that year, or a sex dungeon, but doubt it.
If someone isn't living there, why would they open curtains and windows? Our new neighbs didn't.
Some of the people must have been architects and quoting trades, a they have done a lot of work.