Neighbour Day

Today we celebrated Neighbour Day.

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Nanny, Muma, JackJack and Polly headed down to the local park for a community barbie chew, yum yum....Muma's favourite!

We frequent this park often, it's brilliantly located almost exactly half way between our house and Nanny and Papa's house, so we often meet Nanny there for an afternoon play, especially when she's minding the cousins.

Our local neighbourhood community group put on a free sausage sizzle, golly was Muma stoked, scrumptious sausages in bread, complete with a delish home made tomato sauce(seems to be a secret recipe of one of the ladies, no luck getting it!)

Nanny helps serve up some sausages

Jack is parroting lots lately and picking up so many new things.... he now waves his hand over hot food and goes "fff ffff" trying to blow it cool!

MMmmm snausages!!

And of course we can't visit the park without a play!

So proud of himself on the slide

Smart lil cookie, learnt to go down on his belly coz some slide bases are high and when he goes down on his bottom or back he thuds onto the ground and gets winded

Woa, who's that cool lil dude?!!

This mirror was the first thing JackJack played with when we started taking him to the park, we sat him in front of it and he would giggle at himself :)

Back to the picnic table to have a sip of water and rest with Nanny

Polly was a lucky pup, she found a sausage on the ground, plus was being fed sausages by the barbie chef when we were off at the play equipment :)

We had a lovely time at the park, and Nanny found out about a social group ran by the community centre that she is keen to check out!

The meaning of the day got me thinking though, of our immediate neighbours, the one's in our own street.  We don't know any, don't even see any for that matter.....of course they're there, but apart from cars arriving home I couldn't describe for you what they look like.

The neighbours that share the driveway have a little boy, probably 3 or 4 years old.  Jack and I have sometimes been playing outside and we can hear him playing in his yard, Jack longs to play with him

Here is Jack standing at the neighbours fence, watching the little boy.  We have a high hedge between our properties, but I can see a pair of little legs running up and down the driveway on the other side.  Jack calls out to him, in his own toddler babble way, but alas the little boy doesn't come over.  I watch Jack and feel sad.....memories of jumping fences and riding bikes around the streets with my childhood neighbours makes me sad to see today's neighbours don't interact like days gone by.

As well as this, I also think of safety...in today's society would my neighbour come running if they heard screams?  Would anyone respond to a house alarm?  Would they notice unusual activity and realise something is wrong?

What are your neighbours like?