everyone needs good neighbours?

one thing that has surprised me slightly is the number of our neighbours who were aware of the ambulance being outside our house in the early hours of the morning. the paramedics must have arrived around half past five and were gone by six, but they were spotted. our immediate neighbour does leave for work at 6.20 every morning, so unsurprisingly he was around as we were leaving for bodmin and managed a quick chat with matthew, later on in the week he was sent around by his mother to find out how i was, but also to offer any help. he informed matthew that another neighbour in the corner also wanted to know what had been happening.

i think all areas must have them, the nosey neighbour. well our road does and her house is strategically placed to look right down the close and she can keep an eye on everyone's comings and goings. i have even heard from another neighbour that when she had been away for a couple of weeks her husband had gone around asking everyone what the news was, so he could update her on her return!

last saturday they popped in. mr neighbour had been awake and seen the ambulance. in order to try and find out more she had asked our immediate neighbour what had happened, who at that point didn't know a great deal and had even tried calling on us one afternoon in the week, obviously matthew was getting home too late in the evening for them to pop in then. so there they were on saturday afternoon wanting 'find out what had happened', please note, not 'how are you'. a slight but very different difference!