It's not like one of them is sitting in a car over the road gawping at you through a telescope.
Ignore it 
Erm.... no. They still in fact do that.

Mind you, in the old days "watching" meant they came round and drilled holes in your lavvie wall.
I see the whining sheep shagger is sucking up goodstyle. I'm sure he's not local and I suspect he's foreign - possibly a Septic. *shudders*. The buggers get everywhere.

Anyway, to happier matters.
Many congratulations to you and the lovely Mrs Paul and fondest regards to Grandpa and the Bairn. I'm not asking you to break closely guarded Tyneside secrets or disclose your rituals, but is it true that you send babies out without their bibs in the Winter as part of the hardening up process?