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To HATE the church bells?

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ShyPearlMoose · 07/05/2024 20:17

I have just moved to a new area and I am so annoyed by the church bells ringing. They ring from 7:30-9pm on Tuesday and Wednesday nights and they are SO LOUD. I'm trying to wind down by this time but cannot get any silence so they're really bothering me. I know it's people practicing but does their hobby really have to disturb the entire town's evening for 90 minutes twice a week?
I can only think how annoyed some parents might be when trying to get their children to sleep on school nights.
Anyone else annoyed by them?

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Asprogata · 07/05/2024 20:24

Ha. Are you in Essex? We have looong bell ringer practice twice a week which you do get used to. There’s currently “hell up” on our local Facebook page because some people are taking offence at the noise.

missshilling · 07/05/2024 20:24

I like them. I know somebody who moved into a house next to the church. After a couple of months he joined the bell ringers.

Toddlerteaplease · 07/05/2024 20:24

I love church bells.

Toddlerteaplease · 07/05/2024 20:23

Err, you knew the church was there when you bought the house.

maras2 · 07/05/2024 20:23

Miserable sod.
Why did you move there?😡

PoppingTomorrow · 07/05/2024 20:22

Maybe you should have moved somewhere else?

YABU

GettingStuffed · 07/05/2024 20:22

Surely you knew there was a church before you moved in. We live in the range of church bells and DH, an ex bellringer, takes great delight in telling me when they go wrong .

missmollygreen · 07/05/2024 20:22

Buy a house by a church and complain about the church bells ... ok then!
Yabu

Myteenhatesme · 07/05/2024 20:21

How close are you? I like them but wouldn't want to be right next door.

AntelopeTowelArt · 07/05/2024 20:20

I understand where you are coming from! We lived right next to a church and it wasn’t so much the bell ringing practices, for me it was more the fact that they started at 7am every day…including the weekend, and yes, when we had a baby if we were ever lucky enough for them to still be asleep at 7am (which was so rare!) then the bells would wake them 🤣. Other times of the day I used to like hearing them. Definitely wouldn’t however live next to a church again!

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