Neighbours

Neighbours - no not the Australian soap programme but real neighbours!

Why do I always end up with neighbours that are ignorant, noisey, rude and just unpleasant, is it me or what!

When we got married we lived in blackpool and rented a flat opposite south pier, it was winter and the season was well and truly over, we had no neighbours, which was great for a newly married coupled if you get my meaning!

We then moved to a flat that my boss owned, fine till we bought our first little car, and I mean little a fiat 500, himself is 6'2" and he only just managed to sit inside it, it had a soft top, well sun roof, which was just as well or we would have had to have a hole cut out of the roof!

There was no off street parking so we parked outside the flat, as you would, oh no the neighbours had 'claimed' that parking place, hey its a bloody road we can park here you don't own it, so the war went on for a year till we moved.

Nice flat, upstairs quiet road, local shops opposite lovely. Neighbours great then I had unexpected guests, bloody mice! Hate them oh how I hate them! Himself was working nights and I just could not sleep there, was sleeping at parents or friends it just couldn't go on, so off we went and moved into a council flat, ground floor in a cul-de-sac.

the neighbours there were all OAP's so there was no loud music, no one coming home late at night drunk, I got on with all of them, the lady next door was bed ridden so I used to go and sit with her for an hour in the evenings chatting and putting the world to right. Sadly she died as a lot of the neighbours did being OAP's. Then the flat upstairs became empty and in moved a very respectable young lady, oh how wrong was I!

She became the first real neighbour from hell! She would vacuum and move her furniture around, what's wrong with that you ask, well she did it in the middle of the bloody night! Then she would throw pots and pans at us as we were coming in and out and even pour bleach over us, I was pregnant at the time and it wasn't doing me any good. So off we move again! All well at first then a young single mum moved in upstairs, she had the loudest voice you ever did hear, no carpets and then got a new fella, well night times were just spent trying to sleep through the banging of the bed! God was I glad we had no neighbours when we first got married!

anyways we moved to Sheffield, to be near my family, had good neighbours for a while then Diane moved next door, loud music, dressed very skimpy and flirted with all, we would have stayed but moved to Cheshire with hubbies job, brand new house marvelous. Then himself suffered the 2nd heart attack, the naughty neighbours just would give us peace they just enjoyed arguing for arguing sake! And they had a dog who was kept in a kennel outside all day he started barking when they went to work at 7.30 and rarely stopped till they got home at 5pm.

Back to Sheffield we did go, but we ended up on a very bad estate, cars pinched and burnt out, drug addicts all over, the lad was bullied and then the icing on the cake, visitors of the rodent variety, those lovely little mice! Packed up and went to Bolton. How wrong was that move! The worst so far in neighbours! They would block our car in, their alarm would go off at all hours and they slept through it! yep they were very hard of hearing! So every conversation they had we heard, it really was a nightmare, we stayed till the lad finished school.

back to that lovely place we now call home SHEFFIELD, we do love it here and we will not be moving, regardless of the neighbours, I mean what's wrong with the loud music and being ignored. We have great neighbours around us apart from the ones next door but I will not move again, they can play their music and continue ignoring us I don't give a damn!

so that's my grip over and done with honest, I am not usually a moaning sort of person I leave that to himself ha ha!