Neighbours sitting outside my window.

Ayleen you've resurrected a thread from 2017.........

Put something like flower pots that stink on your windowsill. Put your own chair out there if possible or put music on really loud with window open when they are out there.

Me too..... come on OP

Or we will come and sit outside your window too :D

Dying to know what happened in the end OP

That's really shit Op & very inconsiderate of them. Have you checked your deeds that there isn't at least half a metre outside the window that belongs to you?

Otherwise you really need to have very loud sex / porn playing with the window wide open & passive aggressively 'talk' to a friend on the phone about the pervert with the table outside your window who does nothing but try to catch you coming out of the shower. Not ideal, I know, but unless you're going to speak to them directly or check re legal recourse for distance to your window, there isn't much you can do.

YABU for not having spoken to them. They don't know it's problem for you. They are not mindreaders.

Most people would rather not be nuisance to others, but if you don't speak to them. you won't find out.

Care not car!

Poor you OP. This would drive me crazy. Did he see you? I'm trying to work out if they don't car it's your bedroom or don't know? You need a different tactic if they do know and don't care. I would open window and play loud music. They have a whole courtyard where they can sit...

Isn't it just that they want to sit outside and maximise their view of the courtyard? Move further in and they feel they're staring straight at a fence. Nice round and they're at an angle where they can stare straight in to your window. Whereas where they are, assuming they have their backs to you is probably the best option.

The cigarette smoke would piss me off though. But that's the same as pub gardens. I don't like it, but the law says it's not up to me.

OP, might be time to chat to your neighbours - they probably think they're doing their best!

Smoking is a class issue? Tell that to Kate Middleton :-)

It is the smoke that would be the killer for me. We went to center parcs and the neighbours smoked in their garden! I don't know abnyone who smoked - only 16% of people now do in the UK and it is very much a class issue. It was dreadful. We had to shut our house up and come in but they obviously had no idea how foul and awful it was. being English and only there for a week we just said nothing but it really was appalling air pollution.

Could you put a very very powerful fan on your window ledge with the window open blowing all the smoke in their direction and hopefully putting out their disgusting cigarettes at the same time.

You poor poor thing.
I think you're going to have to bite the bullet.. go out and ask them to move..

.....not looked back, but If you own your property invest in the reflective glass option (you can watch them, they can't see you). If you rent, get the sticky film from B&Q, that obscures vision rather than light.

Alternatively - just have a word with them along the lines of recognising you know it's their courtyard, but that you can hear your conversation, smell your smoke etc........can you just move away from the window please, for everybody's privacy.

They obviously gave the sensitivity of a rhinoceros or there is another agenda going on.

Could you open your window to restrict their space there?

Try and sell them some Forever Living products out of the window. Go on and on about how great aloe is.

Where is OP..... I want to know whats happened.... hope neighbours haven't bumped her off

I was going to suggest a loud phonecall about disgusting/personal things, by a violin is brilliant! Perhaps throw in a recorder as well?

And for some reason the PP who suggested shaking off a rug out the window made me think of the cake scene from the 3rd American Pie film. Think that may be slightly overboard though!

Next time they're out there ask them
very politely if they'd mind not smoking next to your bedroom window. If you get no joy, cough loudly every time they do it, play loud music, make them feel as uncomfortable as they're making you feel.

Or squirt then with with a super soaker water pistol every time they light up.

Play this on your phone or laptop and leave in bedroom with window open. If they ask just casually mention its to keep the rats away

"Easy Street" on a loop (it drove Daryl doolally on The walking Dead )

Syrup, randomly swirled out of your window onto their table /chairs. Just a few drops, enough to make it sticky and unpleasant. Blame bees or something

Violin! Brilliant!!

Oh I love the violin idea!!!!!!! Genius!!!!!

Buy a cheap violin and start "playing" it.

It'll make the most appalling noise and they'll soon move, and it won't take up as much space as a drum kit.

Oh I love the pretending to be a cat idea... hows it going OP... any progress?