What makes a good neighbour?

We have the best of neighbours

We couldn’t ask for more.

I can’t imagine better ones

Than those we have next door.

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They‘ll water all our garden plants

Whenever we’re away.

We have a lot, so quite a task

And yet they won’t complain.

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They’ll put the dustbins in and out

They’ll park cars on our drive

So it’ll look to passers by

That someone’s staying there.

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Sometimes when we‘ve been away

They’ll offer us a meal

Really very kind of them

When we‘re travel tired.

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Once we had a Heron

Come and raid our pond.

Our dear neighbours secretly

Popped in five new fish.

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We will oftentimes to theirs

Or they’ll come round to ours

Or maybe we‘ll meet up to eat

At another place.

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There always up for giving lifts

Have even offered cars

They‘ve lent us equipment

They sometimes borrow ours.

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They take fantastic pictures

We share a love of birds.

We get a calendar each year

With glorious garden scenes.

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At Christmas their‘s a party

They invite more neighbours round

We‘ll all join in with Christmas songs

And conga neighbours home.

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They are always there for us

But also so discreet.

They won’t invade our privacy

But offer when we need.