Likelihood of neighbours exploding with rage

[Setorrunny]

The live next door. We both have detached houses. Gardens run alongside for about 40’ and then our plot has a field and paddock attached and then it’s open countryside for literally miles.

The neighbours hate forriners. We are forrin and slightly brown. They moved from their last house to “get away from that sort of thing” and must have been horrified to see us!

Anyway they have complained about pretty much everything they can. Noisy mower. Noisy children. Holiday cottage (tiny, for 2 people) at the end of the field. Our BBQ. Our chimnea. Not putting the bin away quick enough, and the outdoor solar fairy lights being too bright and on a flashy pattern.

They are only mid 30s and have two young children who they won’t let play in the garden in case someone from the holiday cottage sees them because literally any paedo could be in there, etc.

Latest was that they objected to me and DH quietly chatting on the patio at the outrageously late hour of 10:30, Saturday before last. They come round and stand with their finger on the ring doorbell, ranting.

Anyway, the local farmer has delivered two beehives and they’re buzzing away beautifully, in our garden. They are placed in such a way that forces them to fly up and over, away from the neighbours but some of them are quite disobedient.

I don’t think the neighbours have noticed yet. But they’re going to go crackers aren’t they?

The flashing lights might be regarded as a genuine grievance. Perhaps understand their wishes on that one.
Otherwise they are being decidedly weird!
Being at odds with your neighbours is no way to live, so it is worth trying not to antagonis them. It will not help and you will be the loser.

I worry about those bees. Not everyone understands how precious they are, nor do they care. OP you seem as bad as your neighbour but just in a different way.

If you want to occupy the moral high ground, change the lights to a steady glow.

I love Bob Vylan!

I've got one word for you.

Chimes.

Plenty of them.

Oh and have you considered getting a windmill to generate you're own electricity? Make it so much more economical to run your hot tub. And your outdoor cinema. You could invite all your forrin friends round to watch all sorts of non English films.

You sound like you belong in the town tbh….

@Pennyandolive please come back!
"Smart as a carrot" ?!?! What?! where are you saying this?! Is this a local saying?! We need to know!

Did you really say 'go up next door's arseholes'. The are arse bees who will sting them up their bottoms. 😉

Bees like company

Get a couple of Cockerels and some ear plugs for your family.

it's giving

I wouldn't give a shit what they think - they sound awful anyway. They might the leave the country if Reform dont get in!

I still don’t understand how you know that they bought their house expecting white neighbours. Are they complaining to you about everything, it all seems really odd?

My neighbours drape a large tree in their garden with flashing lights at Christmas, it flashes straight into our bedroom - it’s annoying.

LOL at people saying 'Hmmm, you sound like bad neighbours' for ([checks notes] using your garden in a perfectly normal way whilst living next door to a massive racist.

Also amused by people saying 'Well, I wouldn't like the holiday cottage either.' I mean... so fucking what? It's the OP's property and it's on the OP's land. It's not like the cottage didn't exist when the neighbours moved in, and privacy is no more affected by holiday-makers than it would be if it were permanently occupied. What do people want the OP to do? Raze it the ground?

fairy lights being too bright and on a flashy pattern

I would hate it if my neighbours did this. They would hate it if we did it. It’s horrible op.

Yeah I don’t think op sounds very lovely herself tbh. Annoying.

I would genuinely love to be your neighbour (maybe on the other side!) OP, you sound brilliant.

I'd trade you music lessons for your honey. Loud music lessons. I can play a penny whistle with my nose and that is a skill you should practice over and over and over and over.

Yeah funny but I'm absolutely missing the point.😢

Really? Is it not a common saying. I’m NE England and it was really common where I grew up. Christmas Day, we’d wear our best and be told we looked smart as carrots…
🥕 🥕🥕

Am amazed by all the people here saying you sound like difficult neighbours, OP! (Because you have a BBQ? And talk outside on a Saturday night?)

Good. Sounds like they deserve it! I just hope they don't try and kill the bees by spraying something on them. 🤬

A few pigs would be nice 🤣

Believe you me, the OP is not a nuisance neighbour by any stretch of the imagination.

We had some once, not even next door to us but further up the road, and the council visited all the neighbours in the street and took statements from everyone (including the few of us who hadn't officially complained). The council enforced ASBOs and all sorts in the end to get them gone. I heard on the grapevine that the woman was arrested and imprisoned for drug dealing some months later.

I live rurally. The fairy lights would REALLY annoy me, as would the holiday cottage and chimnea.
I would love the bees though.

Take up the didgeridoo as well, with DH on pan pipes.

The fairy lights are on the porch. At Christmas.

They also have fairy lights but they twinkle, they don’t flash.