To reject this invite from a new neighbour?

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Maybe I'm being a grump but I find it a bit confrontational. I'm confused as to what they mean too. They posted it through my door today, I haven't even seen them yet (they have moved in four doors up).

Hiya Neighbour

On 24th of March our building work will be over and we will be good to go. If you could drop round with housewarmers between 3pm and 7pm we would be happy to offer a glass of wine.

Kind Regards
X and X

thanks for the update tdwp.

What an anti climax hey? Just nice normal people.

maybe you'll be able to laugh about their terminology with them at some point in the future would still be nice to know what they really meant though

Well I took a load of freshly baked cookies and ginger bread (not made by me of course) and they said 'you shouldn't have'.

ah so they wanted you to bring friends

I hope 'ah so' isn't a joke about their ethnicity

ROFL grumpy

Send them a postcard back asking what they mean by "housewarmers" - is this an invitation to bring more people/ instruction to bring a gift/ instruction to bring food/something else entirely?

Podrick if a post has 200+ posts it's probably wise to read the last few comments before posting.

Not to be rude (but know I am)

So you weren't the only uptight English person put off by the wording of their card? Shame.

(I mean, shame they didn't get more people turning up.)

I'm not uptight. I think it was probably the timings, most people are at work.

They have said they plan bbq's in the summer. I'll be going if invited.

No, I didn't mean you are particularly uptight for a British person, but as a nation we are uptight compared to very friendly countries like New Zealand. So the response of a bunch of English people to the wording of the invite would be more negative.

Timing does sound pretty bad TBH - a mid week afternoon. Not many people would be able to make that during the day; maybe after 6 it was busier. They;d have been better doing at the weeked or perhpas between 5:30 and 8:30pm

TheDevilWearsPrimark it's your own fault for resurrecting this one anyhow you still don't know what housewarmers are so I expect that's why you are getting snippy with me

After all if a thread has 200+ posts on a fairly inconsequential subject who has time to read them?

I think they may be from another country too, e.g. american and they mean bring yourselves over to celebrate them finishing their house. Sounds like they want to invite you round to say sorry for any inconvenience during the building work? You could always pop round and ask what it means?

Go they may be interesting / fun / bonkers.

Podrick I didn't resurrect it, but thanks to the poster that did as I'd forgotten all about it.

wish I'd seen it before, I'd have cheered Blu.

Poor people - they wanted to invite a few people to a housewarming party and meet their neighbours. But perhaps their English is not as good as they thought. I'm sure it's much better than my (non-existent) Japanese.

Hope you dropped them a nice thank you note afterwards TDWP.

Havent read thread. Could they be Australian?

Dropped them a thankyou note? Within hours of visiting laden with baked goodies and a welcome/ housey card.

That may seem a little keen, they may well have posted about me if I had.

pmsl mrsmaidamess

Or Kiwi?

Yes, expect they're Kiwi, they use sayings like "good to go".

Stop bumping this damn thread.

Die thread, die.

(but rofl)

TDWP - it would be terrible to actually show some good manners! (bumps thread again ).