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jaishankar @Shivram59 (50255) • India 8 Jun

Today a couple of my neighbours were talking to each other. One of them said he wants to learn higher maths, but he would be 50 after five years. The other replied, "So what?? Even if you don't learn higher maths. now, you will...

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The box caterpillars are living at our neighbours ……

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 6 Jun

You will remember the bother I had a few weeks ago with those pesky box caterpillars ….. I won’t go into too much detail but we had to get rid of a bush to get rid of them. The Mister went to the end of the cul de sac last night...

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Goodnight Charles R.I.P.

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 1 Jun

You may remember my posting about an elderly neighbour Charles, who lives across the road from my Mom. His son Andrew has always lived at home and for the last how ever many years was his carer. You may also remember that Andrew’s...

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More new neighbours at the caravan

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 28 May

So, last year my neighbour on one side at the caravan decided to call it a day and give up the caravan. I now have new neighbours there ....very nice, older than me, with a dog. About an hour ago, my neighbour the other side came...

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Say Thank You with a biscuit ……

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 7 May

You may remember that yesturday I was in a pickle as I was invaded by a million caterpillars …..okay, okay, so maybe there weren’t quite a million, but it’s close enough ! Our lovely neighbours Jenny and John came round to help me...

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Invasion of the caterpillars ……

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 6 May

So, I just went to the freezer in the garage to get something out for my tea, and as I was walking back through the carport I saw some caterpillars out of the corner of my eye…..on the bin ! Oh my days ….when I went back to remove...

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Will you still say hello to a neighbour who insulted you?

Valentina @valherma00 (3829) • Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska) 6 Apr

Or their family members? And these family memebers are saying hello to you first. Returning the greeting, does that make us a weaker person? You don't want to greet them but since you're brought up differently, you can't help...

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Oh dear ! I fear the garden is going to be a car park !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 23 Mar

So, three cars have rocked up across the road. Three youngish men have arrived…..they have bags of tools, and are obviously going to do work inside the house. Two of them have been standing outside for a while pacing up and down,...

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Noisy neighbours…

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 16 Mar

So, the new neighbours across the road arrived just before 10pm…..there were three cars …one parked on the drive, the other two cars in the street. They were here til 11pm and when they left there was a lot of banging of car...

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Night time neighbours …..

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 16 Mar

So, the house across the road is sold ….i posted last weekend that we had loads of items from our neighbour John's family. They just wanted everything gone, and we saved them several more trips to the tip. Anyway, three nights...

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Well, that’s stopped my little plan …..!

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 13 Mar

I posted earlier that I had cleared out a big cupboard in my kitchen and had almost filled our bin and had several bags ready to be thrown away. I asked The Mister to come with me over the road to put the bags in our dearly...

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Wasting Our Time, Or....

jaishankar @Shivram59 (50255) • India 28 Feb

One of my neighbours says to me I'm wasting my time on mylot. " You spend hours here everyday for months. And what do you get?? Just five dollars!!" He says. " I enjoy interacting here with a worldwide community. I learn from...

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We have had a power cut !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 27 Jan

I was woken up this morning by ping….ping….ping …message, message, message …. It was early ….who was it …..? It bugged me after a while , so I looked at my phone, …….neighbourhood watch ….. Oh crikey, what’s happened ? Turns...

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Sad news ….neighbours sister has died ….

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 7 Nov

I posted in October that my neighbours sister and her son were moving in across the road from my Mom . The neighbour and his father live there. The family have lived there longer than us and we moved in 50 years ago. We know them...

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Going to get a new neighbour , there's a new caravan

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 26 Oct

We have had this caravan about twenty years ....anc it still looks brand new as we have taken care of it ....our next door neighbours came the following year. A lovely couple called Judy and John. We found out they lived not far...

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Neighbours sister is moving in tomorrow ….

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 23 Oct

I have talked before of the elderly man who lives opposite. He has dementia and is now bedridden. His son lives with him and is his carer. They have professional carers coming in 3 or 4 times a day. Back in September the son said...

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Cutting down the trees …..

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 17 Oct

So last night I was aware that the neighbour opposite us had moved all the cars from the drive …..oohhh, what’s going to be happening I wondered ….. This morning I was woken up by vans arriving …. Turns out they are having...

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The marquee is down and the cul de sac is back to normal !

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 16 Oct

Well, the good news is that when we got back from shopping this morning they had taken the marquee down next door next door. The even better news is that there doesn’t seem to be any Lorrie’s, vans or cars in the cul de...

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I’ve got myself a project …..

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 14 Oct

When I was out walking on Saturday I noticed a local house had thrown some stuff out ….there was a skip on their drive and next to it was two chairs and a cupboard. When I got home The Mister was on the phone to a work colleague...

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Somebody has actually viewed the house across the road.

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11397) • United Kingdom 11 Oct

So we were told that the house had been sold in a private sale …..we were waiting and waiting for someone to move in …..nothing happened. Then when I was talking to a neighbour I found out that the sale had fallen through. Today...

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