Curtain twitching

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Im a curtain twitcher. I love it.

Mr and Mrs Barky Dog just had their ocado delivery.
Noone has moved into Sarah and James's old house across the road yet, looking forward to seeing who it will be and watching them move in.
Policeman's teenage daughter came home really drunk the other night. Good for her.

Are you a curtain twitcher? What gets you twitching? Do you think your neighbours curtain twitch you back?

Dosent actually matter whether he wants to go out or not.
By law your not meant to block a driveway.

Its the delivery drivers and takeaway drivers who are causing alot of angst by parking where they shouldnt. They dont care, where they are parked today.

Loving the names too - Mr & Mrs Barky Dog, Mr & Mrs Tacky Garden We have a Mr Shouty Shouty

We’re in a first floor flat which is perfect for sneaky curtain twitching. 😁 It’s a four in a block style and our front door goes out the front onto our driveway so if I see anything going on DH always has to go downstairs “for a smoke”.

Our block of 4 is lovely and quiet. We have new neighbours downstairs and other than a new boiler going in the other day we haven’t noticed a peep from them.

A bit further down we do have a couple who enjoy drugs quite a bit it seems. Police have been out to them a couple of times this week but at other times we’ve seen them whisked away in ambulances or being arrested so plenty of drama there. They had a fight in the street in the middle of the day with someone once which was crazy.

Today though it’s been quiet. All we’ve had has been a dog escaping from further up the road (happens quite a lot) and there was a lot of noise around 8.40ish from kids going to school and finding the pavements were solid ice.

Cannabis Farm ?

My DH is a curtain twitcher. I have no interest at all. Came home one evening last summer 5, yes 5 police cars parked between our house and next door. DH completely unaware, busy doing bugger all in his den. He rushed upstairs so quickly he nearly knocked himself out in the mad dash. I suspected a firearms incident turned out a neighbour had called the police because he felt vulnerable ??!!.....

I look forward to being a twitcher when retired! I know this, as I was all excited when the Met Police showed up to look at our ring door footage to see a crime committed on a house (which led to a fatality) 4 houses down. Very unusual for our road but it did peak my interest in the neighbourhood for a brief period.

However, saying this, I actually couldn’t tell you what the neighbours to our right or the ones across the road look like. In fact I have no idea if we were here first or them (it’s been 13 years). I do know the ones to the left though, only because our children met over the fence when young and began a long friendship.

I'm a curtain twicher, always have been😊.My favourite is watching new neighbours move in and old neighbours move out, number 43,which is an upstairs flat had a piano! I never heard her play it

Our living room is out the back, so I don't see a whole lot of what happens in the street.
Although I did stop to watch the snow a bit yesterday evening, and stood for ages watching the chap across the street spending ages scraping actively falling snow off his car, then sit it in for an absolute age before driving away. I was really curious about where he was off to!

Not sure if it counts as twitching but I always take notice of frontages on the way in and out

1. if gardens are done, what looks nice that I might copy
2. anyone having work done
3. anyone walking - unusual mostly cars are used to come and go
4. when immediate neighbour comes and goes - got into a habit of checking if they are away or not (can’t stand them) but they quiet enough.
5. if there is any noise one of us will check where it’s coming from - this includes machines/excessive voices/rarely a party - it’s so quiet noise is unusual also.

I'd have done the same!

I grew up in a village where not a lot happens - certain twitching is in my blood. We live in a town on a reasonable busy street so there’s always something going on - I love it 😂🤥👀🪟

This is right up my street (pun intended)!

We have a corner shop at the end of our street so you get all sorts of people walking up and down it, there’s a drama at least once a week.

Likewise, my mum taught me everything there is to know about twitching a curtain, I feel I am living up to that gold standard 🏅

The ring doorbell camera adds a whole new level of twitching when there is a drunk young couple outside having a blazing row - can twitch to my hearts content at my desk without being seen.

Going upstairs to the bedroom window to look/listen is obviously elite level twitching 👀🪟

Are you my neighbour?! There’s always action in my street 😂

I woke up one morning to see police tape across a footpath at the back of our house - no one allowed to pass. Police cars all up and down the street. Our neighbourhood whatsapp were all messaging me to find out what as going on (equally nosy neighbours). By leaning out of the window I could see a police 'tent' covering something. Later police knocked at the door to tell me a body had been found, and asking if I had any cctv footage. Also reassuring me that I was safe, whilst asking if they could search my garden for a discarded weapon.

And I live in a really nice, sweet, quiet community!

Turned out to be death from natural causes.

Good detective skills 🕵️👂

Reckon its a cannabis farm in the loft.

I'm a curtain twitcher. I have gained net curtain, roller blind and lined curtain status. I learned at my mother's knee (it's difficult to ignore the calling if you grew up in a 60s house with massive windows.

I live in a cul de sac about half way down. I friends on the other side of the street and down by the turning circle so between us we have the street pretty well under surveillance. We WhatsApp each other if something juicy happens. Like a PP my desk is strategically placed.

No u need to get a
Life and stop snooping on everyone else’s.

I make a lot of use of my Ring doorbell camera, but it only covers the drive in front of the house so I don't see much.
The latest scandal here is that someone keeps putting notes on cars that park on a stretch of road that's not in front of anyone's house. The notes say stop blocking people's drives.
My friend and I have narrowed it down to two people and we are hoping for more clues.
All eyes on a house a few along that has just had a sold sign erected.

How fascinating!

I have a very full and interesting life, but/and I also love to wonder about my neighbours...

Sadly unless I'm washing up, I can't twitch! My kitchen faces onto our crescent. But when The Clampetts moved in opposite, there was a bit of police activity for a while. The police seemed to be quite occupied bringing one or other of their kids back! They have a drive full of crap, from furniture to bags of sports kit, 6 wheelie bins and he parks his car where he likes usually!
My maternal grandmother was a massive curtain twitcher. When I was a kid, me and mum moved to a small village where she lived, after mum and dad divorced. We lived in a cottage on the main street, which was really quite quiet. We used to wind her up and wave at the window and she'd always jump up to see who we were waving at!
After 6 years, Mum bought the flat above my dads shop, so we moved back to our home city. When grandmother came to stay, we still wound her up by waving! It took her a few years to cotton on that nobody other than the people on the top deck of the buses, would be passing the window!!! 🤣