Nicknames for neighbours

We have a few as having not long moved in we have only met a few people to learn their real names but as we see them pass by and 'know' them on the local FB site. So we have
DogCop (a real policeman with a dog)
Batman and the Batmobile
Airdale Man
our landscaper
UBU man - drives the roadsweeper
The Ladies
Jogger no 1
Jogger no 2
Nic the photos

We have a chocolate teapot, demolition man, the littlies as they have two small children born less than a year apart. We have neighbours who live in a two bedroom flat but we call it the Tardis because of the number of people we see going in and staying there.
We did have Neanderthal and the druggies but thankfully they have been moved on.

effing Frank. Every other word he spoke was effing.

The blacksmith because he is always manufacturing knives in the backyard
The greenies because they are
Not for any of the others. We rarely see any of them, very quiet here.

We used to have a Mrs Busy, too - always dashing about on some errand or other. Then there were Mr Nosey, The Spaniel family and District Nurse.
There was Grandpa Mini, a very old man who drove a very venerable little car. Oddly, we always referred to his wife as Mrs Grandpa Mini and not Grandma Mini. Next door was Old Peculiar, a very reserved single man who had a few eccentricities but was actually a really nice person when we got to know him better.
It was always good to meet the Smiley People, a very young couple who always gave anyone they encountered a lovely smile and a greeting. The school crossing lady from the corner house was Mrs Lollipop and there was Patricia Parcels, a Hermes Courier.

Then we moved house and got to know most of the immediate neighbours fairly quickly by their proper names. The only exceptions are British Gas who makes himself conspicuous by parking his big blue van in inconsiderate places for days on end and Four Dogs who lives round the corner and is regularly taken for a sort of scrambling canter by a quartet of wolf-like creatures.

I've just realised that we must be Mr and Mrs Boring because we just refer to them by their first names, although if we can't remember their names they get referred to as 'you know, the ones who live in The Browns' house or The Smiths' house', ie the people who lived there first but left probably 20 or so years ago.

Right, thinking cap on!

grandma60 - whatever 'dangerous and dramatic adventures' did Walt the painter and decorator have? The mind boggles

I live next door to The Hereford Hoaxer, or H.H.as I refer to him. Well, he reckons he was in the SAS (where they train)....yeah, right...

We have Walter, named after Walter Mitty who always comes up with a tall story about dramatic and dangerous adventures that happened when he worked as a painter and decorator.

Oh we have a Howard and Hilda near us too!
Very sweet, do everything together, and yes they actually do have the matching anoraks!

Then there’s the charity couple as they were rather too keen on knocking on neighbours’ doors soon after they moved in rattling some collection envelope or other. We all contributed at first but it got to the point where they were making a nuisance of themselves so we stopped answering the door.

Hairy nose and his wife, Mrs Busy. He's in desperate need of a nose trimmer and she charges up and down the road with a huge shopping bag (usually empty) several times per day. I'd follow her to see where she goes but I can't keep up.

Someone moved in next door and I christened him Bluto, as he looked just like Popeye`s enemy, but he`s since shaved his beard off, so the name doesn`t fit anymore.
Then there are Mr and Mrs Tesco, as they both work there and go to work in their Tesco jackets.

The Bubble Heads
Queen Bee
The Fussy Family
Mrs Mad

I hate to think what they call us...!

I forgot our Mr Fussy - nicknamed by dds after the Mr Men character who would straighten the blades of grass on his lawn with a ruler.
Our Mr F is not far off when it comes to his front lawn! To be fair it does resemble an expensive Wilton carpet though.

We have a Nosey Norman and two doors down, a Numpty Norman. Nosey Norman sounds like he may be related to the neighbour mentioned by DiscoDancer who confuses Neighbourhood Watch with Neighbour Watch. T'other Norman seems to enjoy picking arguments about nothing in particular.

We also have some Teletubbies! As well as the fit family, the football team family, Carling man, Victor Meldrew, Psycho and Pavarotti.

We have the Teletubbies who live down the road, short and round! They were given that nickname by someone who has long since moved, but it's stuck!

We had a very large neighbour. My children always called him Mr Blobby. When the GCs came along we had to modify it to Mr Bobby, as one child in particular might have referred to him in person by the original name

My DD calls us Howard and Hilda although we don’t have matching jumpers

We have a George and Mildred named after the to sit com starring Yootha Joyce and a chap named Brian something. Not because they look like them, more because the man is an annoying, ridiculous know-all who gets on everyone's nerves. There's also a Mrs Shall We, thus named because she simply cannot make her own mind up on anything and regularly asks the rest of in the neighbourhood fb page on the most mundane subjects.........like, are we pegging our washing out today???

Seems we all do it then!
I've just remembered Billy two shovels and Flouncy Pants.
Sad that the two Old Queens have now passed away. One of them did fantastic embroidery for altar cloths.
Then there's Mr Personality as he has none, and Blinkey ( named by OH) who I've never met but seems to have irritated OH somewhat.
Clampitts seem to be everywhere don't they!

We have been here since the houses were built, so know everybody by name, and they are all wonderful, except for one couple.
We call them The Grumpies.
They are the ones who bought a car, simply to park it outside their house, so that no one else can. Nuff said!,

Yes...as a child, we used to call our neighbour Mrs. Yoo hoo, because she would let herself in the back door, which my mum always left unlocked, and shout “ yoo hoo”

Later on....when married, the lady of the couple opposite used to walk round her front garden, bobbing her head like a pigeon. So she was Mrs. Pigeon. A little later, they had a baby, and we already had our two boys, so we got talking. We were friends after that. Funnily enough...her first name was the same as mine.

We’ve had police neighbours, to the house we’re in now. He was known as ‘ Peter plod’. He confused Neighbourhood Watch with ‘ neighbour watch’! Long gone now thank goodness!

My dh used to give nicknames to fellow guests at a beach hotel where we stayed many times, and made friends with an American couple who were often there at the same time.

Dh christened one woman Wimbledon Sainsbury’s, and the American chap eventually asked what that meant. We didn’t think he’d get it, but explained about a certain type usually wearing a puffa jacket (this was ages ago!) and doing what is now call Performance Parenting with her children (invariably wearing private school uniforms.).

But he got it at once, and said they had Wimbledon Sainsbury’s types where they lived - which was Manhattan.

I’ve remembered a neighbour from our childhood. We would see her in her garden wearing clothes out of Victorian times. We called her The Dame.

Before we moved our neighbours were known to us as The Clampits(?) due to the old cars, filthy caravan, and moped on their front/side garden. The back garden had lots of rubbish and several old mattresses for years.