It’s Thankful Thursday!

Today I want to tell you how thankful I am to have great neighbours. I live in a lovely quiet cul-de-sac with great neighbours around me. One of my next-door neighbours happens also to be one of my BFFs, and her children are great friends with my children.

We moved into our house almost five years ago, when it was just built, and it immediately felt like home. With our neighbours all moving into their homes around the same time, we immediately gelled together as a little community. Some of the original neighbours have since moved on, including my next-door neighbours on the other side. However, I am happy to say that I have two lovely families on either side of me.

We are quite a social bunch, and invite the neighbours to parties, BBQs, etc. Whenever, I have a gathering at my house, my friends and family always remark on how lucky I am to have such lovely neighbours.

I appreciate my neighbours all the more because, I have experienced the alternative first-hand. Before we moved to our current home, we lived in a mid-terraced house, and one of our neighbours was an absolute nightmare. He would have his TV on loud or play his music full blast at all hours. He had noisy parties frequently (at least once or twice per week), with lots of loud music, shouting, stomping, banging doors into the early hours of the morning. If we complained we just got abuse and people would start banging on our walls. It was horrendous! He would turn up on our doorstep blind drunk and start ranting and raving at us, then put a grovelling apology letter through our door the next day. His antisocial behaviour always seemed to be worse when my husband was working away, and I often stat in bed crying with frustration because I couldn’t get to sleep and had to get up at 6am for work the next day. We had to put up with this behaviour for years!

Therefore, you can see why I am sooooo grateful for the lovely neighbours I have today. We look out for one another. We keep an eye on each other’s properties, kids, pets, cars, etc… We are respectful to each other. We care about each other.

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