Should I ask my neighbours if we can have designated times to sit in the garden?

What will he do with that information? Write to the company and tell them that their employee has a social life?

Kindly, OP, I think the two of you need to try and reinvigorate your own lives. It's very easy to fall into a rut when you have young children.

I work at home with my office window open in this weather so I'm sure my neighbours can possibly hear my meetings as well. Don't really care.

Also you can't police what people talk about in their own gardens.

If you moved to the US to a home with a Home Owners Association it would suit you down to the ground. I expect you'd be on the management team in no time. Imagine the power you'd have over the neighbours. It would be so very you!

I think it was the work convos she was referring to and confidentiality.

OP please do come back and let us know how your DH gets on we can all do with a laugh! I suggest you pour yourself a nice drink have a cold shower and calm yourself down stress is not good in this heat !

So many bitching threads about the same topic : buy a detached house in the sticks if you don’t want to hear or see your flipping neighbours. Entitled people bitching out equally entitled people.

You need to reclaim your space. It isn't fair on your child not to be able to use their garden especially with summer holidays coming up. I'd let them play out and if that means said neighbour needs to work inside well then fair enough. I'm not bothered by what my neighbours where but if you are then attach a screen etc. to the fence.

Our garden unfortunately backs on to several others and only one family behaves this way. My dh used to keep the kids in because their dog would go off on one and the dad would do meetings outside. We put a screen up on that side of the fence so the dog couldn't see them.We are still considerate, they aren't out before 9am and if I hear or see screaming they are bought back in, otherwise they have a right to enjoy their garden just as anyone else does.

If a neighbour suggested set times for using our garden, I would decline.

Are you actually that spiteful you’d try and cost someone their job?

Ground rules? You can’t set rules for someone else in their own garden! If you don’t like it then you have to be the one to go inside unfortunately. They are not behaving badly or anything out the ordinary so yabvu

What a spiteful, nasty witch you are.
Are you implying that you are going to report next door neighbour to his employer?
You are a bitter, jealous, interfering busybody.
Get a hobby you boring old cowm

Me too
Maybe OP Should only have DC s out between 9am and 10am

Sorry OP but you sound incredibly uptight.

The only point I would feel reasonable to raise is the subject of their conversations if they really are inappropriate for children to overhear. In which case I would possibly mention just in passing and very casually…
“Ooh glad to have caught you actually, the kids have overheard some quite fruity conversations from your side in the last week, would you mind keeping in mind that they might overhear stuff?”

LOL this is the funniest thing I've read all morning.

This is either a joke or it’s the heat op. It’s mad. Stick some music on in your own garden and you won’t hear them .

I’d rather hear ‘loud bitching about work colleagues’ than your kids.

"The women have been prancing around in their bikinis"

Lady Fanny Button has found MN.

It’s been so horribly hot the last few days, swimwear in your own home/garden isn’t a big deal. No one is looking their best, we’re all trying to deal with it as best we can.

You cannot tell someone when they can use their garden, well you can but they’ll probably laugh at you.

I mean, I refused a trampoline because they’re dangerous. My friend is a radiologist and has seen too many broken bones caused by trampolines.

But having a trampoline doesn’t make you an inconsiderate neighbour.

You’re not a very nice person are you?
What are you hoping this will achieve?

Maybe you need a social life to stop this unhealthy and unhinged attitude towards your neighbours.

Exactly 😂😂

This is clearly a windup but I'm into it.

Pretty please have a word OP and let us know how it goes.

You and your DH are very, very weird.

I do sympathise to some extent as I also get irrationally irritated by people who speak really loudly - it’s as though they have no social etiquette at all, sometimes it feels like a performance; they want the whole world to listen to them and hear them.
You are as entitled to enjoy your outdoor space as much as they are of course, but I don’t think you can really ask them to speak quieter!

I appreciate its annoying however if they are stopping around 9pm, that's reasonable.

My more practical suggestions - fight fire with fire. Let the kids out in the garden and encourage them to make lots of noise when neighbour is out in th garden on work calls.

Of an evening - play some speech radio. This will help mask their conversations, and maybe, just maybe demonstrate to them how much it is possible to hear other people talking. All the time you're quiet, they have no feedback on their own noise levels.

Think actively about enjoying the lovely warm evenings !

Yes, do it! Put in a complaint. As a DPO, our work can be pretty dry. Its shit like this that keeps us amused on a day-to-day basis 😎

On a more general point, you are not really coming across as pleasant neighbour, or very sane, you seem a little too invested in next door 🙄

I have second hand embarrassment just reading @Guarddogdaschundsposts.