I took in a case of wine for a neighbour who was out.  After ten days she turned up to claim it and gave me a bottle for my non trouble.  That's what I call neighbourly.

Neighbourliness cropped up earlier in the month when I was re-elected nem con as secretary of DORA (nobody wants to relieve me of the post) and when I went to Stirling to attend the AGM of Neighbourhood Watch Scotland.

That was quite fun in its way.  I learnt for example that there is such a thing as a Deliberate Fires Reduction Officer and picked up a free loan shark highlighter pen from Trading Standards, having lost out on their giveaway pink piggy banks.