Ever get curious about your new neighbours moving in? Who are they? What do they do? What nickname can you give them? Why did they move here?
There are so many questions about the people moving in to live next door to you, I bet you can relate. So let’s get curious some more…
The arrival of new neighbours
A large removal truck parks in front of the vacant house on your street, and the removal crews start unloading the furniture.
It’s the first sign you’ve got a new neighbour.
Do you peek through the window checking out their furniture, the fancy dining table, and matching chairs?
Your eyes widen at the sight of a wide-screen TV that takes four men to carry inside. It’s huuuuge! Will the new neighbours invite you over to watch Netflix? Or are they huge football fans who barrack for the wrong team? Shudder.
Then there are the animals to come with them… Will they have a dog that barks, howls, and whines at the moon as it delivers little brown bombs over your lawn?
But what about the children! Will they have young children that squeal like fruit bats fighting before dawn?
Will the new neighbours throw big parties where visitors and their cars block up the street?
And then there’s the issue of fencing. Will they build a new fence taking away your access to that apple tree you’ve been feasting on for years, turning your apple pie baking dreams to crust!
Or will those new neighbours become great friends, sharing their bountiful fruit (and their delish homemade apple cider) by inviting you to their parties, where their children and yours will squeal happily together forever!
Ah, yes, neighbours can be the perfect fuel for fiction…
Ah, yes, neighbours can be the perfect fuel for fiction…
Nicknames for your new neighbours
Love them or hate them, when we get a new neighbour most of us make up names for them because we haven’t been introduced yet. So here’s a list that might sound oddly familiar to you…
Rednecks Rebels
The Clampetts
Hillbillies
Crazy cat/dog/horse/chook lady
2-dogs
Hassled Hiker
Nigel No-friends-next door
The Jones’s
Posh & Becks
Swiss Family Robertson/ Robinson
The Mentalists
Witch
Dr Who
Mad Man
Domestic Dave
Christmas Kranks
Scrooge’s Sister
Wall lickers
Shazza and Wally
Simpson’s
Waltons
Numpty’s
Amazon All-Stars (for those regular prime deliveries)
One Door down
Green/ Red/ Blackhouse
The wreckers (house with wrecked cars)
The Castle (the house with all Aussie Cars)
Ginger Snap Screamers
Debbie Downers
The Adams Family
Mr DYI
Scooters
Sir Toots-A-Lot
Lawnmower man
Gilmore Girls
There are so many more to add. What’s your favourite nickname for your neighbours? Do share.
But what if your new neighbour arrived in this sort of neighbourhood….
The red road stretches like a ribbon, cutting through sunburnt land where a four-wheeled drive tows a large caravan, kicking up plumes of dust only to fall like a rain of fire.
It turns left through an open gate, down the long winding track, passing groups of gum trees with their silver leaves clinging to branches stemming from the flimsy paperbark trunks. The car hauling the van, stirs a breeze that bends the feathery tips on drying grasses where the red dust settles softly.
It slows down as it approaches the tiny house on the rise.
A house that has been empty for years…
The new neighbour has arrived!
This new neighbour, with their monstrosity of a trailer (as the nickname trailer trash flashes through your mind), has arrived. And you know that they’d bought this large rural property unseen!
Who are they?
How many of them are there?
What are they planning to do with this farm?
And why did this new neighbour move to the middle of nowhere to this small outback town?
And that’s the start of the story, ROLLED IN DUST with the arrival of the newest residents of ELSIE CREEK, that has everyone curious.
Are you?
Go on, satisfy your curiosity by grabbing your copy at your favourite online bookstore today.
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