General Chat

Paula switch the hose on set it up in the garden facing their garden and then go inside and close the door

I can not believe the noise coming next doors garden. The screeching child is almost drowining out the others shouting and the high volume of music. I am now looking for one of OHs heavy rock CDs. . That should sort the men from the boys! <3

The other one was mine.

Probably not my finest hour.

Bat Out of Hell wins hands down:)))))

I bet the other neighbours loved you two :-D

I am not proud of this.

About thirty years ago, the bloke next door and I went into town and we each bought an LP and argued al the way home as to whose music was better.

That night we opened the windows and played our LPs to drown each other out.

Bat Out of Hell v The Pastoral Symphony.

We seem to be plagued by teenagers who think you want to hear their " music " VERY LOUDLY, and I suppose we are supposed to think how cool they are. Also 40 somethings who still think they are teenagers and do exactly the same.

We must have been very lucky with all our kids, we hardly ever had to tell any of them to turn it down and they wouldn't have dreamed of blaring it so loudly that neighbours could hear.

We had one family living in the lane with a teenage son so we had some very loud parties especially when Mum and Dad were away. He grew up and left home then is little sister took over from him. She had just got married when the house was sold and we went through the whole thing again with the new family but with yelling screaming and swearing thrown in for good measure.

My daughter lives in our old house and I stay there three nights a week when I am working.

The kids around that house, there are five houses that back onto our garden as well as a house each side, all now seem to be trying out for football teams, a constant thumping of ball against wall or shed or fence and the eight year old next door trying to keep up with all the big boys is unable to keep his footballs in his own garden. We have five of them in the garden at present, I can't get to any of them as they are all at the back of the borders and I am not trampling on the plants to get them, he will have to wait, or learn to aim better.

His parents blast their music out every night when they come home. I put the CD player on full blast the other day with Bay City Rollers, nearly deafened me, opened all the doors and windows but they soon turned theirs down and it has been much quieter the last few days. Maybe they took the hint. We also get some interesting smelling smoke coming over the fence sometimes. Oh and the dad has such a loud voice, like a fog horn. M

The couple who own the flat above ours luckily only occupy it for a few weeks of the year, but when they do.........
4 adults, 3 children & a dog in a 2 bed flat which requires re arranging all the furniture every night in order to put mattresses on the floor.
They rarely return to the flat before 11 pm, then spend an hour or more on this operation while the kids & the dog are running back & forth screaming. They don´t lift the furniture, they drag it across the tiled floors. Bit like squeaking chalk down a blackboard multiplied 1000 times, right over our heads.
They are actually really nice people, but appear to be totally oblivious of the fact that a couple of pensioners are trying to sleep downstairs.
Don´t like to upset them by complaining, because most of the time, their flat is empty & they are the landlords of our house & are very caring from that point of view.
Case of gritted teeth every night for the length of their stay. (or earplugs)

Wend, a Strategicly placed Water Sprinkler works quite well in removing noisy people and the best music to put on full chat is The 1812 symphony,it works wonders. :-D :-D

Don't get me started on nosey neighbours Chris - we have a couple of those too :-(

Enjoyed your little story though

:-D

Apologies to one and all - just realised thread is NOISY not Nosey

it is the age thing - can't blame spec relatively new!

In a block of flats, one man's floor is another man's ceiling. Tread lightly!

Nosy? How about this then? A neighbour asked me if I had ever noticed that Y never pulled blinds completely down, always a gap in curtains and that stategic holes in hedging?

I hadn't - until one night it was dark and about 7 p.m I backed car out, swung around, stopped to put belt on and burst out laughing - there they all were, kitchen blind was up about 6" and I counted three heads in a row peeping out.

After 30 years I could write a book. TG they are not next door.

I flashed them (with lights) and sounded horn.

I lived in Hartlepool back in the seventies, in a semi, and my neighbours were a young Salvation Army couple. Sometimes, they had rows very late at night, and presumably so I couldn't here the gist of it, they would play loud marching band music to drown it out!

We live in a quite street, where the neighbours are really considerate of their surroundings we all value the peace and quite of the neighbourhood. All of us have BBQs and family parties in the garden (when we can) some families have had weddings with marques in the garden, the noise has always been acceptable. Recently a new family moved in around the corner, the bottom of their garden joins the side of ours. On Saturday I could hear they were preparing for a BBQ, as the evening progressed I can honestly say the noise was horrendous. I literally jumped out of my skin when they put the “music” on. We had our little grandsons staying over night, and the sound coming into their bedroom was deafening. I had to close all of the windows, and you could still hear and “feel” the noise. Last night they had a children’s party in the pool it was manic all I can say is the children all had very strong healthy lungs, why do little girls feel the need to SCREEEEEEEEEEM? I am not against children having fun, we have eight grandchild of varying ages, but this was just just totally unacceptable. We can not see into their garden but another neighbour told me this morning that there were adults sitting in the garden eating drinking and chatting, I can only presume they had earplugs in their ears.

We live in a culdesac, people keep themselves mainly to themselves, mostly all over 50, just one young couple, no children 4 cats (and I think I saw a puppy last week too) But our immediate neighbours are nice, one elderly couple a bit old fashioned and outspoken but basically pleasant and very quiet, other side lovely couple older girl now moved away but was 4 when we moved in, and boy now 19, both children very quiet. We all get along very well.
Our only problem, if you can call it that is with the ones directly opposite who take in cats from Cat protection and at the moment have 6 (they are next door to the house with 4). Mostly the cats are fine and know they get chased off if they try to use out garden a s a toilet. They don't like berberis branches which are scattered around and soon learn not to go on there.

General chattering of neighbours, children playing, the odd lawn being mowed, an evening BBQ, etc., is part of life and I don't mind these noises but 3 years ago I had one neighbour, (21yo single girl), who played her type of music, (I use the word music in its loosest sense), 18 hours a day at full volume and everyone could literally feel the bass through our feet ! It was impossible to watch our own TV or listen to our own music. Even in bed at midnight we could hear thump, thump, thump of the bass.

We asked her nicely, we wrote letters. All were ignored. We then did it officially through the local authority. Took just over 3 months, we kept diaries, made recordings and kept local authority up to date. They gave her written warnings but she ignored them all, every time she saw us we got the two-fingered gesture.

Finally she had her music system confiscated. She bought a new one. The row continued and then at long last the housing association got a court order and evicted her.

As she left the whole street waved her off, with two fingers naturally.
It took a long time, but wasn't the victory sweet?

We have a rental next door to us and we used to have two young boys 21 yrs old that rented there .

They partied every weekend and it went on to all hours of the morning for Months ,called the police on them a couple of times ...real estate agent finaly told them to leave after I contacted the owners .

We now have a nice family with a 7, 4 and 1 year old ...I love the sound of children playing....beats the heck out of load music and every swearword you can think of :-D

Suex

You are so vain about that end of yours!

Huh - what about other members then? They could well be very interested in how things are down my end.

Wend, if there is one thing I really don't want to know first thing in the morning it is how things are down your end.

Please keep news of your end to yourself in future!

Thank you.