The MN garden annoyances poll

[ChockysChimichanga]

What do you hate hearing the most when sitting in your garden?

Constantly barking dogs nearby.

My South African neighbours. I get that Afrikaans is quite an abrupt-sounding language, and they just have loud voices and a forthright manner, and are probably talking about the weather, but their garden conversations frequently sound as if they’re about to kill one another.

Loud music.
Children are playing, power tools are working, dogs can’t really help it. Loud music only exists to be loud. It’s selfish. (Oh and the ‘if you don’t like hearing people then live in the middle of no where’ people can sod off before they start.)

I don't actually have a garden,just a balcony,as I live in a second floor flat. But top of my list of annoyances for the rare occasions that I do sit on my balcony is screaming kids from the nearby gardens. Why can't some kids play without emitting ear-splitting screams all the time?!

Dogs that yap constantly because their owners never trained them properly.

I don't generally mind dogs barking - our current neighbours all have dogs that are well-trained, and I've got no complaint about those. They bark when playing, or when excited.

My old neighbours had a yappy border terrier that barked constantly, and it was outside nearly all day and all evening. It nearly drove me crackers.

Other people's shite music, played louder than necessary

Other people's amplified music.

Would mind less if the twerps who want to blast it out actually had decent taste in music.

Also, no-one should be allowed wind chimes, unless situated a minimum of 750m from anyone else's property

People lighting fires every night - not a bbq or a once a year burning of leaves in autumn. Every night. Must be some shite fire pit or something. In a densely populated area. It’s so selfish

and my second vote is for windchimes - also really selfish and basically imposing your (dodgy) taste on everyone else.

Anybody else's choice of music.

Loud music for me, accompanied by the gentle roar of our neighbours' hot tub and the clink of glasses and the sporadic Sid James cackle.

It's not so much the music as the unshakeable mental images.

Actual lol at this.

Next doors screaming kids on their squeaky trampoline. But I don't complain because they are kids and they have to play somewhere... and basically they are nice well behaved children.

Screaming kids. It goes right through me.
Luckily, it is not so much of an issue where I live.

Windchimes though.....

Love hearing children play.

There used to be a couple of children that waved goodbye to daddy first thing in the morning, and I could just hear them calling as I woke up about 7:30. It was a lovely wake up and always made me smile. Unfortunately they stopped doing it, whether they moved away or grew too old or whatever, I don't know.

But we don't generally get barking dogs or power tools near us for long, so I don't really know how irritating I'd find that.

Right now it’s screaming kids. I like hearing children play but why do they all seem to scream like banshees now? Special needs asides there’s no need for it. I’d have rightly been told to zip it by my parents but it seems that most of their parents don’t give a shit if they sound like they’re being flayed alive. A few times I’ve genuinely thought that they were in distress.

Of course kids will make noise when playing and that’s fine but what is the screaming about? I’ve watched them stand still and do it even kids that are almost teens. It’s bizarre.

I have a neighbour who jet washes pretty much every week. His garden must be worn to a nub by now.

Thankfully no hot tubs or Sid James.

Power tools
Music (bass especially)
Dogs
Loud cars or motorbikes

Hate them all.

Our very loud neighbours doing performative sports with their kids with loud music on. It’s not a fucking sports day.

To be clear, I have no problem with any of the other neighbours with kids playing outside, or with their music on at a reasonable volume in the kitchen and the patio doors open. It’s these specific neighbours with very, very loud voices, very loud music, and putting on a bizarre performance several times a day with barked orders and “instructive clapping“ to punctuate the demands for their kids to do sports drills.

The poor kids hate it too, and always end up having meltdowns (no I’m not co-opting a ND phrase, I do mean actual meltdowns).

Wind chimes.

Loud music, shouting and banging on about their great and expensive hot tub and BBQ (they weren't. It was a second hand lazy spa and a knackered old gas BBQ). For 10 hours a day every single day for months. I used to dread good weather.

Now I live in peace with neighbours and I'm looking forward to reading in the garden at night during the summer.

You forgot other peoples cats!

Music accompanied by bad singing, with the smell from barbecues and fire pits added as a further annoyance.

People roaring around the lanes on motorbikes, though that applies anywhere outdoors.

DH calling me because there's something that really needs doing inside that needs my help when I'm busy outside. Unless the thing I'm needed for is 'eating the dinner he's got on and made'.

I have two screaming children next door to me. When my kids were small they weren't allowed to make such a racket, but I have never heard the neighbouring children being told off for this (or anything). How can their parents stand it?