General Chat

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)

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

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.

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

I bet the other neighbours loved you two :-D

The other one was mine.

Probably not my finest hour.

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

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