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It’s been two weeks since we moved in. We met one of our next-door neighbours within a few days after her cute little Jack Russell Terrier decided to come visiting. But the other side neighbours are on a bit of an angle, and are actually on the next street, so it’s hard to see them if we both happen to be out the front at the same time.

But yesterday, as I searched for any garden taps in our yard (as it turns out, there is only two, and both live right down the front – annoying!), I saw our neighbour out the front, and waved, and went over to say hi. He’s a pretty tops guy who definitely loves to chat. He’s probably in his 50s or 60s, but the cool thing was that he was one of the first people in the street, and so knows a whole lot of history about our street!

He explained that our steet (and the few surrounding) were the first part of Westleigh that was built in the early 70s. He pointed out some houses that still had the original owners in them, and could even show me the houses in the street that were built by certain architects/builders. Very cool. I found out that we’re only the third owners of our house, which is super cool, and that it seems we’re starting the next generation of families in the street, as most of the original owners were like him who brought up their kids in the street, and they’ve now moved on and out of the area.

It was pretty awesome just chatting with him (and his wife later on) for a good hour or so about the street and how friendly and quiet it was. And just hearing about all the different families. And even finding a couple of small world stories too.

I know my friends are getting sick of hearing it, but I really do love our street and our new house :)

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