Odd things your neighbours do?

[thetapeworm]

My new neighbour knocked on the door completely out of the blue, didn't want anything and basically just said hello and had a bit of a chat.

Weirdo.

[CB2152]

Parks their car in front of their house, but about four feet away from the kerb.

[DavieW]

Our shared downpipe from the roof runs under the fence between us and next door. In a heavy shower both gardens flood. Our neighbour, who's stayed here longer than us, seems to think the run off pipe is broken as she saw it sometime in the past when she was digging the border. We arrange with her that I'll phone to get a specialist in to repair the pipe and split the cost. The guy arrives, inspects the ground and goes away to make up man estimate. Meantime said neighbour phones the company and cancels the job as "he'll damage my plants when he digs down to the pipe. Result is, both gardens still flood and we're back to square one.

[seyre1972]

We're sure our "special" neighbour waits for us to have swept the front of the house/drive - as not 10 minutes later he'll be out clipping his front hedge (he's got a drive at side of house, ours is just a cross over at teh front of the house, and what would have been our drive/garage had a house built on it in late Victorian times (our houses are mirror images/Victorian as well)

Which he never ever sweeps up - mentioned it a few times and said "oh yes sorry will sweep up next time etc" never does however.

So using "man maths logic" bought a Stihl Leafblower and go out afterwards and blow all the clippings back in his direction /out onto the road.

Other than that they are good neighbours / we get along well with them ....

As a professional Yorkshireman - I'd say - "There's nowt so queer as folk"

[Boring_Chris]

bobtail4x4 said:

Boring_Chris said:

Timmy40 said:

My neighbour shoots moles. With a pump action 12 bore, at 7am in the morning. He sneaks up to the mole hills and blasts them repteadly. How he's never shot his foot off I'll never know.

Your neighbour sounds like a .

you must be a townie?

Yes. But I'm also not weird as st.

Being a... Country-ie?... doesnt afford you licence to act like a .

[Blown2CV]

WD39 said:

Blown2CV said:

WD39 said:

We fell out with neighbours, down the road a bit, over thirty years ago. I cannot for the life of me remember why. My only thought is it was something trivial. They are still around and we still ignore etc.

I guess that makes me odd one.

thought we'd established that in the knob thread!!

It was well before that. If memory serves it was the PH 'Show us your breakfast cereal box collection' thread.

go on, i'll bite.... how many cereals?

[Mr Snrub]

g3org3y said:

There's a lady in one of the neighbouring flats who walks her cat (on a lead) every day.

Some pedigree breeds will let you do that, and it would be a good idea considering how much they can be worth.

[WD39]

Blown2CV said:

WD39 said:

Blown2CV said:

WD39 said:

We fell out with neighbours, down the road a bit, over thirty years ago. I cannot for the life of me remember why. My only thought is it was something trivial. They are still around and we still ignore etc.

I guess that makes me odd one.

thought we'd established that in the knob thread!!

It was well before that. If memory serves it was the PH 'Show us your breakfast cereal box collection' thread.

go on, i'll bite.... how many cereals?

Loads. But my downfall was that I posted a Kellogs variety pack as a 'sixer' but it only counts as one. Drat.

Edited by WD39 on Friday 20th May 18:43

[baldy1926]

I have a neighbour opposite me who's basically a hermit.
He had a mental health breakdown a few years back and was in a unit for nearly a year.
He's been back in his flat for about 2 and half years now.
I saw him today for the first time this year he wouldn't make eye contact and when he saw me he tried to hide in a communal cupboard.
He only wears black underpants and a t shirt i don't think he has any other clothes, he looks malnourished.
He has no furniture in his flat its all been either thrown away or repossessed.
His ex wife used to leave a bag of shopping once a week at his front door but i've not seen her for a while.
His son was around today, he must be out again. He is away very often away on all expenses paid trips at various prisons.
The only other visits he has is the mental health team.
As soon as the door opens the whole place stinks i normally just open the letter box every few days just make certain theses no body visible and swarms of flies.
All last summer i was expecting to find him dead

[EnglishTony]

How often are the mental health people there?

[bristolracer]

baldy1926 said:

I have a neighbour opposite me who's basically a hermit.
He had a mental health breakdown a few years back and was in a unit for nearly a year.
He's been back in his flat for about 2 and half years now.
I saw him today for the first time this year he wouldn't make eye contact and when he saw me he tried to hide in a communal cupboard.
He only wears black underpants and a t shirt i don't think he has any other clothes, he looks malnourished.
He has no furniture in his flat its all been either thrown away or repossessed.
His ex wife used to leave a bag of shopping once a week at his front door but i've not seen her for a while.
His son was around today, he must be out again. He is away very often away on all expenses paid trips at various prisons.
The only other visits he has is the mental health team.
As soon as the door opens the whole place stinks i normally just open the letter box every few days just make certain theses no body visible and swarms of flies.
All last summer i was expecting to find him dead

Thats kinda outside the limits of this thread,its not eccentric he is ill.
There but for the grace etc....

[Mr GrimNasty]

bristolracer said:

baldy1926 said:

I have a neighbour opposite me who's basically a hermit.
He had a mental health breakdown a few years back and was in a unit for nearly a year.
He's been back in his flat for about 2 and half years now.
I saw him today for the first time this year he wouldn't make eye contact and when he saw me he tried to hide in a communal cupboard.
He only wears black underpants and a t shirt i don't think he has any other clothes, he looks malnourished.
He has no furniture in his flat its all been either thrown away or repossessed.
His ex wife used to leave a bag of shopping once a week at his front door but i've not seen her for a while.
His son was around today, he must be out again. He is away very often away on all expenses paid trips at various prisons.
The only other visits he has is the mental health team.
As soon as the door opens the whole place stinks i normally just open the letter box every few days just make certain theses no body visible and swarms of flies.
All last summer i was expecting to find him dead

Thats kinda outside the limits of this thread,its not eccentric he is ill.
There but for the grace etc....

Very sad state of affairs.

There was a lad 2 years older than me lived next door as kids, around 17/18 he started getting a bit odd and not going out, could see him in the bathroom spending all day looking in a shaving mirror on the windowsill pulling at his face/head. Still lives there, mum long dead, his dad is well into his 90s and still looks after his son who has hardly left his bedroom in all those decades, bar the odd excursion in an ambulance.

[WD39]

They moved into our village.

[red_slr]

We have been in our new place a couple of months. On bin day NDN leaves their bin(s) at the end of the shared driveway - but in the middle so you have to get out of the car and move it to get off the drive... very odd.

I have started to leave it further down the road each time..

[Oakey]

So my neighbour, the one that does all the hedges and bins and shreds your boxes with a circular saw.

I put a load of that shredded bark down in our front garden the other week as it was looking bare and the plastic weed cover was showing.

Neighbour has just been in, cut the hedges, then comes in with his leaf blower, blows all the leaves (and bark) into a pile, then proceeds to sweep it up and bin it.

Now there's patches of the plastic showing through again. Fuming.

[Timmy40]

Boring_Chris said:

bobtail4x4 said:

Boring_Chris said:

Timmy40 said:

My neighbour shoots moles. With a pump action 12 bore, at 7am in the morning. He sneaks up to the mole hills and blasts them repteadly. How he's never shot his foot off I'll never know.

Your neighbour sounds like a .

you must be a townie?

Yes. But I'm also not weird as st.

Being a... Country-ie?... doesnt afford you licence to act like a .

So in your opinion does losing a load of cows/horses/sheep to lysteria afford a reason to control a serious pest? All you see is cute furry animals not the damge they cause.

[Some Gump]

Timmy40 said:

So in your opinion does losing a load of cows/horses/sheep to lysteria afford a reason to control a serious pest? All you see is cute furry animals not the damge they cause.

Maybe it's the 7am part he finds ish?

[Timmy40]

Some Gump said:

Timmy40 said:

So in your opinion does losing a load of cows/horses/sheep to lysteria afford a reason to control a serious pest? All you see is cute furry animals not the damge they cause.

Maybe it's the 7am part he finds ish?

It's the time of day when they are active near the surface pushing up soil, and therefore vulnerable.

[Rosscow]

Timmy40 said:

My neighbour shoots moles. With a pump action 12 bore, at 7am in the morning. He sneaks up to the mole hills and blasts them repteadly. How he's never shot his foot off I'll never know.

So do I (although I tend to use my .410)

[Rosscow]

WD39 said:

Timmy40 said:

My neighbour shoots moles. With a pump action 12 bore, at 7am in the morning. He sneaks up to the mole hills and blasts them repteadly. How he's never shot his foot off I'll never know.

Waste of time. The mole has retreated to well below shot gun 'range' as they hear the footsteps approaching the mole hill.

Trapping is the only way to be sure. If you want to drive them away to your neighbours lawn, bleach poured down the mole run usually works.

No way. Tried trapping, took forever. Shotgun is much more effective and a lot quicker, in my experience.