If you are worried enough to ask the question here you’re worried enough to make a welfare call.
Call it through to police on 000 - it might not seem like enough of an “emergency”, but it is something that gets organised via 000. Don’t worry you are wasting police time, they do a lot of welfare checks and there is almost never something actually wrong, but some of the time someone has fallen and is lying on the floor in desperate need of help and organising the check saves their life.
If they’re someone you usually see getting about regularly and you haven’t for a while, you could always call the non-emergency line and see what they think
To become the local curtain twitching nutter (CTN) you need to be calling in repeatedly, probably for multiple neighbours. A real CTN calls 000 weekly as a minimum, but if you are properly commited to it requires multiple calls a day.
It’s a relief to know that peering through the front curtains occasionally when there’s a noise doesn’t classify me as a CTN, even if I feel like one 🤣
This is the way. If you know any of the other neighbours you could ask if they know anything. If no explanation, then proceed to calling for welfare check.
Check to see if mail is piling up and whether bins have been moved in a while, knock on the door a few days in a row maybe, see if you see or hear anything.
At what point do I get worried my neighbour (whose name I don’t even know) isn’t on a long holiday and make a welfare call?
If you are worried enough to ask the question here you’re worried enough to make a welfare call.
Call it through to police on 000 - it might not seem like enough of an “emergency”, but it is something that gets organised via 000. Don’t worry you are wasting police time, they do a lot of welfare checks and there is almost never something actually wrong, but some of the time someone has fallen and is lying on the floor in desperate need of help and organising the check saves their life.
If they’re someone you usually see getting about regularly and you haven’t for a while, you could always call the non-emergency line and see what they think
Trying to not become known as the local curtain twitching nutter. Maybe she does this every year or two? Argh.
To become the local curtain twitching nutter (CTN) you need to be calling in repeatedly, probably for multiple neighbours. A real CTN calls 000 weekly as a minimum, but if you are properly commited to it requires multiple calls a day.
It’s a relief to know that peering through the front curtains occasionally when there’s a noise doesn’t classify me as a CTN, even if I feel like one 🤣
I’m not a CTN. I prefer going outside with my binoculars and a step ladder.
Is that an official term? 😹 I think my brain can hold a bit longer but her car battery might not.
It becomes an official term if we can get enough people using it.
Go knock on the door and explain that you were worried as you hadn’t seen them in a while.
This is the way. If you know any of the other neighbours you could ask if they know anything. If no explanation, then proceed to calling for welfare check.
Check to see if mail is piling up and whether bins have been moved in a while, knock on the door a few days in a row maybe, see if you see or hear anything.
And don’t be afraid to call.
Mail is a good point. I now have a name.