The MN garden annoyances poll

[ChockysChimichanga]

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

People looking in my garden.I live in the first house on the corner,so everyone who goes past seems to want to nose in.Also, people who talk to my dog,he's a lovely blue frenchbull dog,and absolutely gorgeous.Hates strangers,so they will be going oh what a lovely dog,yes you are lovely-all while he's jumping and bargain and having a meltdown.

Barking.Hes not bargaining 😂

It's a shame you can only vote for one. Loud music got my vote (why is it always shite music that booms out?), but close runners up were yappy, barking dogs and power tools. After suffering neighbouring extension builds for several years in a row I'm sick of hearing drill, electric saws and banging.

The whir of my neighbours cctv as it follows me around the garden…

That one minute the suns out and it's warm and the next the sun is behind the clouds and it's cold.

The sound of a neighbours strimmer

Next door have a huge pool structure they whip out at the first hint of sun. It's around 8m long and I fear it bursting and flooding us. Anyway, they start off late morning with the splashing and topless lilo floating. They then get progressively more tipsy on Stella and Prosecco and start screeching. They have a large grey summer house which they've turned into a bar and it has a pole in it. When the DC are in bed, they get the karaoke out and warble drunkenly for a while, before doing some pole dancing which is a lot of cackling and the odd yelp of pain. Once their fellow revellers fuck off around 1am, they get into their fucking humming, splashy sex pond and groan whilst rutting like dogs.

It's like being tortured for information but I have none to give.

Definitely barking dogs.
More specifically my neighbour's barking dog.

My neighbour seems to think repeatedly yelling their dog's name every time they bark is somehow letting the dog know they are supposed to shut up

Dog - woof
Neighbour - dogs name?
dog -woof?
Neighbour -DOG'S NAME
dog -woof?
Neighbour -DOG'S NAME
dog -woof woof?

Translation
Dog - hello
Neighbour - dogs name?
dog -yes?
Neighbour -DOG'S NAME
dog -what?
Neighbour -DOG'S NAME
dog - why do you keep yelling my name, you idiot?

Every time I hear it I mutter FFS your bloody dog has no clue why you keep telling its damn name.

One day I'm going to lose my temper and actually yell it.

Rain is the only annoyance. We have a beautiful, private garden. It's my oasis away from life.

Basketballs. Cunting basketballs

My otherwise exemplary neighbour has a squeaky dog toy to occupy his dog so it won’t bark. It’s loud af. So instead of woof woof woof we get SQUEAKSQUEAKSQUEAKSQUEAK.

He’s probably equally charmed by my WUZZ WUZZ WUZZ electric screwdriver and mission to make all my borders raised beds; you could sculpt vases with our clay soil.

😂😂 oh my god, that sounds awful

For me it's the man next door blowing his nose, I assume he has hayfever but his nose blowing is a very loud trumpet sound. Starts from around 6:30am and pretty regular throughout the day and always makes me jump.

Another neighbour has a motorbike that doesn't appear to work, he's fixing it most weekends and rev's the engine for 5 mins every few hours then discusses with his wife why it isn't working.

I think parents get inured to it. And genuinely don't realise it has an impact.

I don't mind it per se, but my goodness it can quickly be really quite tiring!

Leafblowers, followed by next door’s fucking stupid dog.

The 'wannabe ' who plays music (either Adele or Amy Winehouse) and sings with a microphone over the top. She's not great but obviously thinks she is and it's bloody antisocial to expect the rest of us to put up with it all weekend every weekend.....

The bloke who does drum practice with all his windows open so the whole street has to hear it....

@ShowOfHands you win with the sex pond strippers! Although @FlyingOverAllOceans you are a very close second with the Big Brother house.

Last drop of gin

I like human life in all its messy noisy glory.

Humans are fascinating are they not?

Yes.
And yet when you try to dissect one, suddenly you're a monster.

Cars using our lane as a short cut despite signs at both ends saying no vehicles and access only.

My neighbour breeds spaniels. Every time I go to the bin they all start yapping. At feeding time they all go nuts and any sudden loud noise starts them all off. The always have fires late at night so I can’t put my washing out over night. Having said all that, the husband is a really nice guy. Never see the wife but I hear her shouting at the dogs. Live and let live I suppose

If you've got somewhere dry to sit (or appropriate clothes), while the rain may be an annoyance in some ways, the sound of it - which is what the OP was asking about - can add an extra layer to the sensory experience. Similarly with wind.

I chose gin, though I don't drink it, because it's annoying having to go back in the house to top up whatever drink I'm having. Other noise doesn't bother me when I'm in my garden.

Twatty neighbours letting their kids kick footballs into surrounding gardens multiple times a day, every day. Entitled chavs.

Some shouty jackdaws.

I don't mind kids playing. I do mind the kid next door who kicks a ball against the wall from 7:15 every weekend morning