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What are your neighbours doing to annoy you this summer?

232 replies

AMumWithWiFi · 21/06/2026 19:43

For the past two evenings, just as it's finally cooled down enough to open the windows, one neighbour has fired up a BBQ and another has lit a log fire.

I know people are entitled to enjoy their gardens, but the timing feels almost impressively irritating.

Anyway, rather than sitting here seething internally while my house slowly fills with eau de smoked sausage and bonfire, please tell me about your neighbours' most gloriously twattish habits.

The more petty and irrationally annoying, the better.

Help me feel less alone 😂

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Blushingm · 22/06/2026 01:45

Just being Alive really

theu shout abuse at me - but only when I’m alone
Are nasty to the elderly lady next soor
Park like shit
Reported my lovely neighbour for moving her fence 4cm (yes, cms!!!)
purposely poisons the fruit trees the estate planted
Let their dog bark at all house and shit in my front garden and on the green
Claim he needs walking stick but at night he can garden and mow and has been photographed unloading kitchens and up
on peoples roofs
Intimidates old ladies in the street my shouting and threatening them

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 22/06/2026 01:28

Some great tips and ideas here. Thanks everyone. 👍

narcASD · 22/06/2026 01:21

Performance parenting. The mum always cooking or avoiding her really annoying kid, the dad constantly saying "ooooh wow" "good job" "amazing jumping / skipping / ball throwing" "let's pretend we are in the finals at Wimbledon" "let's play hide & seek" it's bloody constant, the kid is 10 and the first summer of this I was jealous of what a great hands on dad he is, now I feel like telling him to shut the fuck up and give his kid a PlayStation.

SnowFrogJelly · 22/06/2026 00:34

I like my neighbours!!

SnowFrogJelly · 22/06/2026 00:33

AMumWithWiFi · 21/06/2026 19:43

For the past two evenings, just as it's finally cooled down enough to open the windows, one neighbour has fired up a BBQ and another has lit a log fire.

I know people are entitled to enjoy their gardens, but the timing feels almost impressively irritating.

Anyway, rather than sitting here seething internally while my house slowly fills with eau de smoked sausage and bonfire, please tell me about your neighbours' most gloriously twattish habits.

The more petty and irrationally annoying, the better.

Help me feel less alone 😂

You’re annoyed because your neighbours are having a bbq?!!!

wtf get a life

KopAl · 22/06/2026 00:28

Not agreeing to go half with the fence claiming it’s okay despite the posts being down to the wire. They park a camper van, a new van to ride their noisy bikes from and basically just existing next door. I want to move!!!

maxslice · 22/06/2026 00:27

Cardiganwearer · 21/06/2026 20:04

Building an extension themselves with a ton of mates and talking very loudly all day. Then stopping at about 10 at night and lighting a barbecue. Then talking and carousing late into the night. At least the extension seems to be going up quickly…

Same here.

Justonemorething82 · 22/06/2026 00:26

Mine had a massive smoker barbecue which the woman wouldn’t move knowing it would blow straight in my house. When my DS was a baby they had a party in the garden in their inflatable hot tub of germs, singing Sweet fucking Caroline until 4/5am.

She bellowed “unacceptable” several times circa 9am when I popped out to trim the hedge under her open window. It was rather unkempt and took a while, even with my electric hedge trimmer..

Gymnopediegivesmethewillies · 22/06/2026 00:15

Dear neighbour, you not possibly have anything left to strim……

Floppyearedlab · 22/06/2026 00:12

Not me personally, but this was hilarious

Friend works shifts and was sick of her neighbors letting their children make noise in the garden at 7am
She paid her 8 year old to get them with his huge water pistol from the spare room window.
She then got her DP to mow the lawn at 20:30 and use noisy garden tools for a few days

They got the hint. But don’t think they will be on the Christmas card list

and yes, she had tried asking politely first.

CombatBarbie · 22/06/2026 00:06

The mooing and bahhhhhhing on either side of me is infuriating. Wont even start on the fucking birds starting a choir at 4am...... and my cock strutting his voice!

Im currently wide awake listening to my teens having a party which was outside and is now in my kitchen 🤣🤣🤣

The audacity of everyone/everything!!!!

Franjipanl8r · 21/06/2026 23:41

flatbuyingdilemma · 21/06/2026 19:46

Last night 2 cars outside my window parked boot to boot and the inhabitants stood beside the cars and staged a rap battle 😫 I won’t ask you guess which area I live in, but yes it’s London!!

🤣🤣🤣

MsGreying · 21/06/2026 23:30

He's done less noisy gardening.
However I reckon he's ill and that concerns me as he looks after his missus. I need to pop round and see how they are.

Calling · 21/06/2026 23:24

Girl and mother screaming and shouting at each other at 10pm.
Girl screaming at Dad the moment she gets out of the car from school at 3.30 and shouts 'Daaaad' up the garden path, in a state.
I am concerned for her and have gone to various agencies...

CaroleSP · 21/06/2026 23:21

Doggymummar · 21/06/2026 20:12

Well, the magpies are crawing the crows are cawing and the blackbird and robin are singing them hearts out. We moved here on December and its magical.

Is that you Georgie?

BeDeepOP · 21/06/2026 23:19

Nothing...after 20 years of living with neighbours all around ruining any enjoyment of our garden on a nice day, we moved last year to a beautiful house with neighbours far enough away that we don't see or hear them.
It is so peaceful and so lovely to know we can sit outside and hear nothing but birds.
We are very lucky and I wish we had been able to do this years ago.

Whataflippincircus · 21/06/2026 23:13

Cobrakainerd · 21/06/2026 21:36

Smoking weed, they are well past pension age too..🙈😂

WTAF? Pensioners? That’s disgusting! 😁

Magical2026 · 21/06/2026 22:56

Dog has been shitting in their rear branble slash nettle patch for years, never gets taken for a walk, smell is awful.

ConstantlyFuriosa · 21/06/2026 22:44

Plasticdreams · 21/06/2026 21:24

Annoying cunts with fires in this heat

This. Why do they do it? Why?

Boiling hot day so the fuckwits decide to burn shit. Just as I open all my windows up in the evening having suffered the stifling heat all day (which is even worse if they’re open. West facing bastards).

Sunloungerhogger · 21/06/2026 22:43

I have found my people, we hate our new neighbours. It’s such a shame as everyone else on the street we moved to is great and the people behind, it’s just the twats next door to us. Our last street everyone was pretty quiet, their presence was never in your face (or rather, ears) like these ones.

Portakalkedi · 21/06/2026 22:42

Same as they do all year, let their fecking kids scream non stop in the garden, while they're inside watching TV or whatever. I aways hope, when the weather's bad, that they do the same amount of screaming indoors where the twat parents have to listen to it.

AMumWithWiFi · 21/06/2026 22:40

TheyGrewUp · 21/06/2026 21:53

Nothing. They are lovely and our houses are far enough away from each other not to ha e impact. Actually, I haven't seen a neighbour for about 4/5 weeks.

Sounds blissful. My dream is to move somewhere like that, but unlikely to happen any time soon.

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Sunloungerhogger · 21/06/2026 22:37

Playing football very hard and aggressively in a far too small garden meaning we get approx 10 balls a week over the fence, frequently thwacking it against the fence so hard I’m surprised it doesn’t break, with two boys who only have one volume when outside which is yelling. Constantly parking one of their cars in the visitor’s bay between our two houses despite having a massive 4 car car port, out of sheer laziness, meaning there’s nowhere for our visitors on the rare occasions we have them, to park. They’re loud and tasteless and entitled. Oh and they leave their dog to whine for hours and hours.

Nowimhereandimlost · 21/06/2026 22:36

Enjoying their new extension by having the bifold doors wide open every damn night and blaring the telly. I fantatise about pea shooters

ThreadGuardDog · 21/06/2026 22:34

Holliegee · 21/06/2026 21:45

My neighbours are doing some sort of DIY project in their back garden and we are now on the 3rd week of continual angle grinding, sawing, drilling, bashing, arguing with his wife (they don’t start til 8am on Sundays)throwing creosote around with wild abandon whilst my washing was on the line - singing badly to 80s pop music and the other neighbour is having a wild time smoking weed continually (I can’t smell it) but anyone visiting my house tells me it stinks of weed in the garden and occasionally in the kitchen - but I’ve been chilled out for the 3 years she’s lived here as a by product of the fumes and I fear if she moves I may become a miserable cow !! 😂😂.

Do you get the munchies ?!!