Friday Thread
Friday Thread
Just one more day to get through before the weekend. Keeping a low profile, or have a full day of meetings?
What are you looking forward to doing at the weekend?
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Met our new neighbours yesterday and we're very happy to discover that they seem cool and also are quite young, which is a rarity in these parts. Trying not to get my hopes up about potentially making new friends, but hey you never know.
Of course since they've just moved in, they've already warned us there'll be a fair amount of DIY noise (no problem with that, moving house is lots of work and they don't do it too early or late) and I suspect that will ramp up at the weekend so we're planning a trip out somewhere quiet with a picnic instead of just loafing indoors like we usually do.
Less socially awkward lemmings and kbinauts of UKCasual, tell me, is it weird to maybe invite new neighbours round for a cup of tea or something and get to know them a bit? Is that friendly or creepy? I honestly can't tell.
It’s not creepy or anything, but personally I’d prefer a more relaxed vibe like a bbq or a couple of evening drinks. Just make sure the invite is super casual, like “hey it’d be great to get to know you guys over a tea or coffee whenever you’ve settled” and then invite them again in 2-3 weeks or something.
My thought was that I didn't want to just assume they drink, and also a bbq seems way more effort and therefore more pressure, but yeah I think you're right about framing it as a "when you're settled" thing, thanks.
I'm just overexcited cos I've lived here for ten years and managed to get to know like one person in the entire town outside of my partner's family 😅
I can't think of an occasion where it would be socially wrong to invite someone round for a cup of tea - but don't ask me since I'm not not socially awkward.
As long as your neighbour/you are not Hyacinth Bucket I'm sure it'd be quite welcome.
My old neighbour tells me that the person who moved into our previous house has been known to chase neighbours down the street to insist they come in for a cup of tea. So I think there is a line here where it can become socially awkward.
Tea is something that should be freely offered and freely refused.
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Aaah g'wan. ☕