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I have been working 12+hrs a day for the past month 5 days a week and knackered

went to bed last night and got woken up at 7.38am by LOUD drilling and banging on our ajoining bedroom wall.

Obviously neighbours were doing DIY

aibu to expect a little bit of peace till 10am on weekends, or at least 9am and not be woken up at 7.38am [angry}

You have a point, that is far too early to be doing DIY on a Saturday. Some people are just selfish twats.

YANBU

I'd be pretty pissed off with that too. Our neighbours are always doing DIY and a few weekends ago it was 7.30am they started. They had carpenters in the garden building a bar and were hammering and drilling until nearly 6pm (on a Sunday) DD and DS were both ill and had been up for most of the night (so I had too) so not impressed.
YANBU

and my neighbours are old (in 70/80's) normally very helpful in taking packages when i/dh are at work (they offered)

same in summer - why do people want to mow their lawns at 8am

ANYTHING before 10am is a no go area with this blonde - phone calls/texts/knocking on my door etc

Mowing a lawn at that time of the day is odd too. However, elderly people do seem to get up very early.

yanbu but as i was woken up at 5.38 by very loud and persistent wailing of toddler i am actually green with envy

YANBU at all and the neighbour should have more consideration...
but <channels Eric Idle> 7.38! I dream of having a lie-in until 7.38!

Blimmin kids....

YABU: although i'm only saying that because i have to get up at that time 6 days a week.
and i get woken up way before that when OH gets up for work at 5o'clock.

you have to grin and bear it.

(i'm you see)

was gonna say the same as TheCrackFox, to old people, 7.38 is like the middle of the afternoon; they will have been up since four or five.

but that said, yanbu at all.

YANBU its too earlu for DIY although in this house 7:38 is considered late - my thee get up at 6am everyday

I think 7.30 is okay, its not as if it was 5 or 6am. Maybe 8 or 8.30 would have been a little more considerate but 10am is very late!

blimming kids indeed and blimming oldies

i was planning to sleep till 10/11

<runs away from wuglet and TheMysticMasseuse >

its not only my ajoining neighbours who mow grass early at weekends-many do - or maybe they hear one and think cool, thats joing the cutting gang

anything before 10am is too early even hanky panky from mr blondes!!

YANBU.
7.38 am is too early for diying.

Used to live next door to a blind chap who mowed his lawn at night. I think he was showing off! Anyway, YANBU. Once my kids start sleeping past 5.30am anyone else who disturbs the blissful lie ins I'm dreaming of will be seriously unpopular.

I wouldn't start DIY before 8am unless it was an emergency or I'd checked with my neighbour.

Do you not have children blondes? Mine are five and three. My five year old has once slept in beyond seven thirty. My three year old started the day at 4.30am one day this week. He didn't have a nap and fell asleep shortly after 8pm. So I don't have any sympathy for you at all!

i am not blessed with children

though my charges (im a nanny) all sleep till 7 /7.30am - go to bed 7ish so sleep 12 hrs

<runs away>

very rarely awake before 7am not allowed to get up before then - can look at books in bed etc

why do oldies get up so early?

i would be in heaven sleeping in every day?

I had to wake my poor neighbours to ask them to unlock their gate so my builders could go and drill in my wall round the side(at 8.15). I felt bad but they weren't in last night to ask to leave it open.

I presume your charges are not babies then blondes. I will try tonight to explain to DD 14 months that she can read a book when she gets up but has to stay in her cot til 7 am but I'm not sure its going to work!

Maybe you can do some diy at 10 one night? Lots of loud banging?? Drilling?

I am, of course, joking..........!

It's bad enough being woken up at that time by your own kids let alone the neighbours, poor you! When I retire, i'm going to lie in as long as I can every day!

they are 16mths, 4 and nearly 7

all have slept till least 7am from 8/12weeks

infact baby would like to sleep till prob 8am but gets woken up if not awake by 7.30/7,45 as of school/nursery run

earlybird-i dont do diy - neither does mr blondes -when we moved into our house years ago,we he tried to put up a bookcase - has prob 8 different holes in wall behind bookcase and it still wobbles a bit

i could do some diy sex with LOUD buzzy friend and lots of yelling!!

Will you come and be my nanny

YANBU.

Why are people so inconsiderate these days?

aww bless you - i love my work family and only way i leave them is if they get rid of me

Old people don't have stage 4 sleep. That's the stage of sleep where we heal/regenerate and repair cells etc and it seriously cuts down on the length of sleep they have. My Mum's just started finding she can't sleep past 6am. Just so you know.