in wanting to ram my neighbour’s leaf blower where the sun doesn’t shine?

That's quite reasonable.

We have a leaf vacuum but not a leaf blower. Can't possibly rake the rockery. Not every area can be raked. It's probably only used once or twice a season though.

Your neighbours 2 year old is definitely not still sleeping at 9am on a sunday in May. No self respecting 2 year old is, that kid has been up since 5 and thinks the leaf blower is brilliant.

We use it to get the dropped leaves from the neighbours' privet hedge out of our slated/ grevelled corner so I don't think a rake would do it. Besides, the way I see it, we don't make a fuss about their privet hedge growing over the fence and into our garden (we've nicely asked them to cut it back a bit but they haven't) so they can put up with 15 minutes of leaf blowing noise about once a week.

Tough guy! Cowboy without a gun.

i remember my first day back in the office after the pandemic, couldn't hear ourselves think during a meeting due the on-off roaring outside. I stood up and looked out the window clearly annoyed, and the gardener was stood there, leaf blower in hand, eyeballing right at me like 'yeah. I'm blowing leaves bitch. What you gonna do about it'.

I don't even notice it anymore, clearly I'd just gotten used to the quietness of WFH!

All this description needs is a hot tub & a set of wind chimes, & you've got the perfect MN-hated garden.😂

It doesn't have a cat in it because the cat's in a neighbour's garden using a flower bed as a litter tray, killing songbirds & eyeing up the food it can see through the kitchen window.

A friend who lives in an area with spread out properties and large gardens is driven mad by ride-on lawnmowers. He says they just ride around all day on them. Nothing better to do, and their way of avoiding their wives (who are probably thankful to get them out the house).

I don’t think anyone begrudges the occasional use of garden tools it’s the ones who use them all day every day that are a pain.

Thank you. Just signed it.

just get a rake and put your neighbours out of their misery.

That’s quite a list you have there….

Substitute penis. One's not enough for some men.

Oh we have a neighbour like this, he doesn't suck or collect any leaves up he just spends hours blowing them all into the road. He's just an all round arsehole though.

I used to use a rake when I had a lawn. Is that not something anyone does anymore? How did people with children cope in the days pre leaf blowers/jet washers?

“He’s probably OCD” - and he’s probably just an inconsiderate arsehole.

I use a leaf blower/muncher thing as otherwise the leaves are all mulchy and my baby can't crawl around without trying to put half of them in her mouth. And jet wash my AstroTurf as dog poos on it and sometimes even after picking them up it leaves a little bit of mess, before kids play out there on a sunny day/having company over for a BBQ. Probably only takes 10 mins in total and always after 9am. I didn't realise they were so hated by people! Once a year at the beginning on summer I'll also jet wash the patio and trampoline ready for the summer so that takes longer but really is once a year.

All of those and an angle grinder (used purposely on beautiful sunny days, the utter bastard).

How many trees are/were there?? And why? I love trees.

Yanbu. My neighbour has a gardener whose first task of the day is blowing the leaves near my boundary.

Leaf blowers are an absolute menace and so completely unnecessary.

edited I think so. A neighbour up here has a vacuum for his.

Your neighbours sound incredibly annoying but I'm not sure what the problem is with occasional, appropriate leafblower use. We're surrounded by large trees and if we didn't do something about the leaves in autumn our garden would be slimy mush for months. We leafblower them into a big pile, run the mower over and bag them up to make leafmould. Without the blower it takes flipping forever.

Consider getting a solicitor to write a letter complaining about nuisance. "Nuisance" in its legal meaning is something that prevents another person having the quiet enjoyment of their home. That might make her a bit more aware of need to be considerate.

Also, have you looked into whether the trees were/are protected, either by Tree Preservation Orders or by being in a conservation area? Can be checked out with local council. If protected and the work is being done without council permission, she's breaking the law, and work should stop, also she should get a fine.

What do leaf blowers actually do, just blow leaves into piles?