What are these l brackets for

[Alis girls]

I am at an age where I need my beauty sleep and need 6-8 hours not less as people so often say as you get older. I have a 10 hour day tpday in a Dr's surgery and last night at 3am I could hear voices in the street. the windows were open as it was warm. I looked out and saw 3-4 people (couldn't determine age) down the road - must have been talking loudly. I was tempted to shout abuse out of the window but didnt what is wrong with people

[Cinnamon]

We too couldn't have our windows open last night,& our house is a low ceilinged cottage,so pretty stuffy.

 

My next door neighbour had a huge smouldering bonfire of green stuff which stank to high heaven

 

In fact she had one a couple of weeks ago too,which another of our neighbours phoned the council about saying it was US! - we got a letter from the SODC slapping our wrists about it

We phoned them & told them it wasn't us,& also showed our neighbour the letter,& she seemed very contrite & sorry about it....then 12 hours later starts another great smoky thing.

My clean washing stinks of smoke now,& I am coughing like a good 'un too

[SarahJo]

Know what you both mean - Saturday night there was the lads returning from the pub at 12.30am - they soon shut up though when it lashed it down with rain Then the girls screaming at 3am A neighbour then came home at 4.15am - at that point I was quite jealous as no way could I stay out till that time anymore partying

 

I am not a nosey neighbour - just suffering with surgical menopause so up a few times and awake alot

 

Bonfires drive me mad - why do people burn stuff on nice days when washing is out - leave it for a drizzly day, it wont go out And always warn the neighbours

[patsylabrador]

My neighbour, who's in his 40s has been playing loud music for the past 2 hours. We can hear it all through the house. I really don't like him and I'm going to set the chickens on him and his dogs which he allows to bark all through the night.

I feel very sorry for his poor old dad who's house it is.

He's playing La Bamba now and singing along- OMG!

[The Dogmother]

I once had a young 'lady' renting the house next door - she kept me awake at night with her very vocal 'entertaining' of various young men! Luckily I am on good terms with the landlord and he moved her out.

 

I had to resort to banging on the wall at 3am to ask her to shut up

[WitchHazel]

I once had a young 'lady' renting the house next door - she kept me awake at night with her very vocal 'entertaining' of various young men! Luckily I am on good terms with the landlord and he moved her out.

 

I had to resort to banging on the wall at 3am to ask her to shut up

 

We had a neighbour like that. Fortunately, not joined on to us, but her house adjoined our friends. unfortunately for the friends, the semi detatched houses are built so that the master bedrooms in the two houses share a wall. Our friends told us they were always banging on the wall in the middle of the night asking the vocal woman to shut up.

 

This backfired. The woman seemed to take this as a bit of a challenge, and the noise level & duration got worse. She was convinced that the neighbours were only banging on the wall because they were jealous.

 

She had the same attitude to sharing her music with us all.

 

It was a horrible time. We started the process of putting out house on the market as we just couldn't stand it any more. Luckily, she was rehoused; we have a really great family next door now.

[The Dogmother]

Lack of consideration always makes me angry.

 

Our Victorian houses have long, thin gardens and back onto a street of similar abodes, although some of them are owned by a housing association and have a tide of various folk going through them. The new tenants of the house at the back of my neighbour (IYSWIM) have taken down the fence between their gardens, shows no sign of replacing it and keeps wandering into their garden. The neighbour (a fireman) has asked them to replace the fence and to keep out of the garden (they have small children).

 

It all escalated at the weekend when this tenant decided to have a large bonfire (he's often burning stuff ) and it caught light to the neighbour's shed. Next door were out there with buckets and a hose at the double, I ran my hose down too and we put it out.

 

My washing stank as it had been out on the line

[Griffin]

One of our neighbours got their lawnmower out at 8am last weekend. Our windows were open so it woke us up

[Alis girls]

Times like this I wish I had a cockerel. Now theres a thought ..........

[Egluntyne]

We have a skip outside the house at the moment. At around 12 midnight we heard the inevitable car draw up and the sound of something being chucked in it. Grrr. It was a bread maker and a vacuum cleaner. I checked first thing, expecting to find a 2CV, because of the racket they made when leaving it.

 

Both have since vanished.

[The Dogmother]

you ought to have fished 'em out and stuck them on ebay!

 

I'm always fascinated by the tide of stuff going into and out of skips in our street, also by the still useful things that folk chuck away

[Mercedes55]

Times like this I wish I had a cockerel. Now theres a thought ..........

 

Sounds a good idea to me. When you think how considerate most of us hen keepers are to make sure we don't make too much noise, yet we are often surrounded by idiots.

 

We also have a neighbour at the back of us who lights bonfires willy nilly, I can't think what he has left to burn.

 

We are lucky that we live in a detached house so once we shut the doors we don't hear anything. However years ago when I was a single parent I lived next door to a family I named "the local school of music". They had 3 young children who played various instruments from the piano to the flute and many others inbetween. Every morning at 7am they would start to play them, which wouldn't have been so bad if they played the same tune in the same room, but no they each played totally different tunes in various rooms and it was a living nightmare.

[Egluntyne]

....We also have a neighbour at the back of us who lights bonfires willy nilly ....

 

So do we ... usually when I have two lines of washing pegged out.

[Alis girls]

i have to say at present I have lovely neighbours but we have suffered in the past.

In East London we had a sweat shop in the flat above - industrial machines going all night. The other neighbour a woman and her b/f both alkies fought regularly outside my front door and left the flat full of dog poo and a dead dog - poor thing had no water. It never barked at all.

Then in our old house we had a family who mended cars outside the house, kept odd hours and the child a few years older than our son would throw stuff at my son including jam jars. Red mist came down and I gave his mum the benefit of a tongue lashing - fishwife style. they trashed the house and left with a load of appliances and the landlord had the cheek to ask if we had seen anything - we had been telling him for ages they were trouble.

I feel for you with the bonfires - I love to dry my washing outside. I dont know where the people who kept me awake all night were from - not immediate neighbours - needless to say OH snored thro it all

[SarahJo]

I chatted to another neighbour since writing my last post - we were talking about not sleeping & menopause when she mentioned Saturday night and the racket Particularly the girls made at 3.15am

It's always worse in the summer as we sleep with windows open - get the aircraft going over with the Dawn chorus too

[Mum]

There is nothing worse than inconsiderate people during the night (bonfires, I can tolerate).

 

I have a large garden which backs onto a park. Unbelievable how many people are in the park at all hours of the night in the summertime. Thing is, everyone is so used to talking about the sounds of their TV's, radios, music (and that's just in their home!) they forget their own voicebox volume controls

At night it is particularly bad, because a) there isn't the same level of traffic noise so the general atmosphere is quieter, making their voices that much louder b) they are often bevvied and c) in light of b, have probably been shouting above the sound of venue music.

[squiffs]

I must admit, we do burn things in our incinerator - but I was always taught that it was only okay to do that at night time once the sun had set.

 

I'll be honest, unless my neighbours want to pay the extortionate prices the council charge for taking away garden waste, that's how I'll continue to dispose of it, as it composts down a lot easier after incinerating, and I have no car to take things to the tip. I do try and be as considerate as possible though, we keep most of it back for the winter (unless there's too much gathering) and I would never dream of doing it in daylight hours with other peoples' washing on the line.

[sazmet]

Our house is next to a big park and people are always in there late at night. Had a man shouting the odds (drunk) at gone 10pm (im very pregnant with 2 little uns so NEED my sleep haha!) also the amount of dog walkers shouting at their dogs in the middle of the night?!

[patsylabrador]

Dear neighbour is now playing Snorah Jones for my breakfast delight. Can't stand Snorah, wish he would play something good at least if it has to be that loud. A bit of JBT would go down a treat.