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Though you live closely to each other, it’s possible that you know very little about your neighbours other than how terrible their parking is. But, that doesn’t stop you imagining what might be going on inside their walls. Inspired by their premiering of Keeping Up With the Joneses, starring Isla Fisher, John Hamm and Gal Gadot Sky Cinema would like to hear about the funny rumours you’ve heard about or the secret lives you’ve imagined for your neighbours (past or present).

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So, whether you’re convinced that the woman at the end of the road is MI5, you have some inventive theories about why the neighbours leave the house so early on a Sunday, or you’re a curtain twitcher who treats the neighbour’s lives like entertainment, share your stories below to be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 John Lewis voucher.

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Well, I have never been so wrong about someone in my life than the 'lovely old elderly man' who lives down our road! Such a sweet man, always very polite and one of the old school gentlemen! I envisaged him living a quiet peaceful life and never saying boo to a ghost.....until the day the police raided his house and bought out a huge armoury!!!

I have one neighbour here who Always has new flashy cars and he comes home at about 3 or 4am, I thought he owed a car dealership at first but I think it's something seedy. well that's what I've imagined haha I'm just being too nosy.

Pampas grass, enough said!

we've wondered if our neighbours are French therapists as they have a lot of visitors to their home :?

We have a lady next door who has been deemed the 'crazy cat lady' from most in the village however we like to think that inside her house is pristine with everything gleaming, we think the neverending cats that seem to come and go out her house live in luxury inside and have crystal food bowls and cashmere beds!

We have a suspicious man living at the bottom of the road, he walks everywhere (a little too slowly)with his hands clasped behind his back and sits outside his house talking to someone's cat (it's not his), the poor chap is just minding his own business but the kids have created this whole 'serial killer' persona for him!

We live next door to an extremely loud young woman and her downtrodden boyfriend who.is about a quarter of her size. She blasts out Katy Perry music during the day and I.often think it might actually kill her to acknowledge us (so I always make sure I say hi because I know it bothers the rude girl....) anyway I imagine she sings into a hairbrush and that she makes him run round after her feeding her grapes and stuff

Large fences appeared further down the street why? I'm totally convinced it's to stop anyone seeing something but what? My mind has gone off the scale affairs or wrong recycling in the bins or is it just a fence?

We always refer to our perfectly nice, polite retired neighbours as the 'body under the patio' lot.

They probably refer to us as something equally nice.

Previous neighbour planted a Christmas tree in their garden after Christmas one year. It's now taller than the house.

My neighbour is plain in appearance and seems to have an ordinary retail job and character. But ever since she came to the door wearing a sleeveless dress, and I saw her amazingly colourful tattoos of exotic birds and sultry figures, I have imagined a 'secret' life of burlesque.

A neighbour who is an international jetsetter. No idea how she affords it as always on cruises. I am ever curious/ imaginative as to how.

An elderly couple in our road never speak to anybody and you rarely see them. Their house and garden is pristine. Their lights are on 24/7 so they clearly don't sleep.

We think they have been taken over by aliens

Our neighbours are a lovely couple, but have some slightly odd behaviours.

She frequently cooks curries far too hot for herself or her other half, so brings them over for DP (never for us or me - always just for him)
Funnily enough in our old house the older lady across the road used to always dress up (make up etc) if DP was popping round, I often got her in slippers and PJ's...

Maybe my neighbours aren't odd and DP is toy boy material???

Our next door neighbour doesnt speak to us.... I don't think I've ever seen her crack a smile or change her facial expression.

I actually think she's a 'real life' westworld character who is sent to test to see how people interact in the 'real' world... then relays information back to the main office. Theres a lady that comes round for 2 hours on wednesday morning... maybe she comes to re-programm her for the next week? hmmm

There is a woman living in our Close who avidly watches people as they park. If they dare to encroach anywhere near her territory, she is out of the door, arms waving and very shouty. I imagine her wearing a parking warden's hat, carrying a ticketing machine, and call her 'Lovely Rita - meter maid'.

Another neighbour always seems to be entertaining visitors, mostly men! They seem to call at all times of day, some calling and blatantly knocking at her door, others hiding furtively under umbrellas (even when it's not raining!) We have decided that she must have lots of friends and relatives, or she's running a house of ill repute!

We live very rurally so know all our neighbours fairly well.

Doesn't stop us speculating about thumps, screeches and late night arrivals / departures.

One neighbour is rather unpleasant and a builder so most of our speculation is around whose house he is currently cutting corners in, particularly on insulation. Also, who he is upsetting by building where he shouldn't (planning flouted frequently).

Well, my neighbours like to get up to a bit of hanky panky. When the lady of the house goes out, and the husband is home, a young woman turns up in a Fiat Bravo and leaves before the lady returns, and when the man leaves the house, the wife entertains a gent who arrives in a red Audi and he leaves before hubby comes home again. I imagine their home is either a luscious love palace or a S&M dungeon....or both.

My neighbour keeps watch for people who walk their dogs down the street then goes out to talk to them for ages. I wonder if he likes dogs or if he is passing on some secret information

My neighbour is a really elderly lady who never comes outdoors. There are always alot of people back and fore there. Maybe shes a spy as whenever i speak to her family the old lady seems to know everything that goes on in our street even though she doesnt step foot outside

They never come out and we always hear loud banging - so I imagine they are inventors about to create something revolutionary!

We have a family who live next door who's grandson only visits after dark, he even cuts his grandparents grass in the dark. I do wonder what goes on in there, wish I could be a fly on the wall some times.

Our neighbours are constantly doing DIY out the front, I always imagine their kids are locked up in cupboards inside or working ina workshop in the basement making items for the house!!

The Aliens - railway signal in the garden was definitely transmitting information to the mothership.

i imagine my next door neighbour to be a black widow she's 60 been and married 4 times 1st husband died of an heart attack second husband got murdered 3rd husband killed himself 4th husband disappeared over night 2 days later she moved his best mate in so who knows maybe she is