“Curious” neighbour

Nosy neighbours are a mixed blessing. Intrusive yes but they are the ones who may notice when something is wrong.

Ps did you book the sea view or will you just view it when you go for a walk?
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Just be aware and very tight lipped about what you tell them. They could be useful if there were ever a crime in the immediate area!

Esspee we will await their book with interest

We have a neighbour who took an interest in what others were doing and telling them (well us) what we could and couldn't do regarding planning rules etc.
Then merrily went ahead himself and broke all the rules and got away with it.

Maybe your neighbours just have very dull lives Esspee so they take an interest in yours to liven things up a bit. It's a bit over the top to record things in a note book though.
I wouldn't be too bothered about it but I would be cautious about what I told them.

I find that fairly innocuous but a bit intrusive, yes. However if they are otherwise good neighbours, then just carry on being friendly and helpful as you obviously are. But forewarned is forearmed. Don't tell them too much of your business!

No, it wouldn't bother me. Just the opposite. I find these kind of people quite amusing. They can come in handy sometimes.

My previous downstairs neighbours were terrible, had to know everything.
He once stopped our then Minister from coming up the stairs, questioning him as to how he got in the building and where was he going, as there were only 2 apartments it was quite obvious.
Any time anyone including me came in or out he came out of his apartment, a friend counted him going up and down to his garage 42 times when I moved out.
When I questioned him on it he said he did not like some of the people who visited me. He is very racist !!!!

We had a neighbour as 'interested' as yours! She seemed to know everything about us, and when I hesitated about a product we used in conversation with another neighbour, the 'interested' one kindly supplied the information. I was thunderstruck - had she been through our rubbish?? She was also the first neighbour to know I was expecting as a parcel was delivered to her house while I was at work, and it was handed to me, with the end undone, clearly showing Mothercare nappies . She wore a smug smile; she hadn't even bothered to attempt to close the end of the parcel. I was glad when she moved - today it might be called stalking!

Illte. Do you think it’s worth £30 a night for a sea view?

Sorry, just joking. Pleased to see everybody feels like I do.

They were social workers but that may be a cover for MI5 lemongrove. ?

Mr Norder is ex police and doesn't miss a thing but even he doesn't put details in his note book any more.
We don't have immediate neighbours so not sure if he would record their goings on. I would confiscate his book if he did.
I think your neighbours are downright nosy a bit ott Esspee.

I would find it peculiar, too.

I feel the same when I have telephone conversations with people (two in particular) who keep an iPad nearby so that they can google whatever we are talking about. It's as though they don't quite believe what I am saying, or don't want to let me tell the story in my own way.

Both of the people I'm thinking of would definitely have googled your holiday destination and looked up your hotel during the conversation if it had been over the phone. I can't quite put my finger on why I end it rude, but I do bristle a bit when I become aware that they are doing things like that.

If you read Alan Bennett's diaries they are full of the daily doings of his neighbours - and very pithy and amusing they are too!

I can't see anything wrong in that though maybe I wouldn't have let you know ?

Not sure about the sea view though.

Esspee ?
They have a diary filled with ‘daily doings’ of their neighbours.Are they retired MI5 personnel?
You will have to start keeping things under your hat ( and only remove it once home!)?

They are! I had the same issue with a neighbour and had to keep her at arms length after some of the dealings I had with her (and her family). We still speak, I am very pleasant and always ask after her health but tell her nothing!