It’s the school holidays and I appreciate that by starting this thread I’m going to sound like a right grump, but here goes…
Our garden backs onto two houses, both of which are owned by couples with young kids. All four parents work from home full time.
The kids (youngest 3, all primary school aged) regularly play outside in the gardens. The houses are new build with literally no plants or shrubs. Just lawn surrounded by fence / brick walls. The noise just bounces around as there is nothing to ‘absorb’ it.
I accept that they are noisy when they play because they are young, energetic and kids!
Now that the school summer holidays are well under way, it’s become apparent that getting up and out into the garden at 8am is their routine. And they shout. A lot.
Then at 10am they go inside and there is silence for a while.
I can deal with it, I have 2 kids and I appreciate that’s what kids are like.
and here’s the “but”…
My son works full time and his room overlooks our back garden. He works 12 hour shifts a lot of days, in hospitality. Most shifts mean he is home around 11pm and in bed by midnight. He’s getting increasingly fed up with the neighbour kids’ morning routine.
During term time, the outside playing is just at the weekend. But now it’s a daily occurrence due to the holidays, I really feel for my son, because being woken up 90 mins before he needs to be up for his next shift is pretty miserable.
WIBU to message or pop round to my neighbours and see if they can encourage their kids to be quieter (a big ask) or to not let them out before 9:00.
I’ve become that grumpy neighbour 😩