Likelihood of neighbours exploding with rage

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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?

No. Just explaining that many other people might be annoyed with some of the things the OP is doing too so it might be something for the OP to consider.
It’s not okay to be racist.
They are 2 different issues.

The OP clearly says that the fairy lights are on at Christmas and around their front porch, which seems fine to me. I'm with you on light pollution at any other time of year though.

Why would a holiday cottage that isn't even near your boundary annoy you? And what's wrong with a chimenea? They are no different to a barbecue, and millions of people have those.

So what? Like many already have told you, they are a real nuisance. Christmas or not.

But it's ok for the knobhead neighbours to have them?

How do I know there is a race thing? Welllllll DH’s friend has a child in the same class at school and the mum said to DH’s friend that she was worried about her kids getting an accent that wasn’t English.

And she posted on the local FB page about being “surprised” to hear so many different languages spoken in the local shop.

And how much the character of the area has changed since she was a child here, when everyone knew where everyone was from.

And most tellingly, she collared the eldest of our kids and asked where we were from. He didn’t understand because he was actually born in this house and didn’t twig but she kept saying “yes but where are your family REALLY from.”

Oh and she made a comment to a mutual acquaintance about how unfair it was that not everyone gets a grammar school place and how she knew people that aren’t even properly English and come here to get their kids in. (Mine got in. Hers might not.)

Now, I could be totally wrong. But it gives a picture. Doesn’t it?

Sometimes, when people are annoyed about a thing that they’re not allowed to be annoyed at, they express that annoyance by complaining about something else.

But they don’t. They twinkle. Flashing lights are different.

The other week when the moaning arse came round to lean on my doorbell, it wasn’t about the lights because it’s July.

It does. Obviously. But it doesn’t mean that you have to be annoying back. Just ignore them.

Thanks for that. I am ignoring them. Studiously. In fact I have footage of them on my doorbell with him growling “she’s just fucking ignoring me.”

Nice to see you know exactly how we should all deal with racist bullies. Have you thought of a career with the Equalities Commission?

But they shit like alsatians and they will annoy everyone for miles. There's some currently about a mile away over the river and we can hear them.

I heard it for the first time last week. Its charming.

Yes i was struggling to get past this!

Ignore those saying you’re a bad neighbour, Mumsnet is full of people who think you should go to bed at nine, and heaven forbid you should drink a bottle of wine.

Tolerance is needed, and given this twat is a massive racist he’s not willing to give it to you. Hope they move.

How do flashing lights in the porch at Xmas realistically hurt anyone?

Anyway, the local farmer has delivered two beehives and they’re buzzing away beautifully, in our garden.

Wait until the Asian Hornets reach you! The neighbours won't know which insect team to side with! They will go apoplexic with rage.

I think you sound like perfectly nice country neighbours OP. When I was a kid we sang a song in rounds at school that started off 'oh how peaceful living in the country, far away from the noisy town' and ended up with a cacophony of kids each singing different verses like 'Moo, moo moo, goodnight to you'

Personally, I had some solar lights wound around a tree that I quite enjoyed. They had a mind of their own and flashed sometimes, plus I have kids, and chickens who make noises I never knew chickens could make, and an oil boiler and a BBQ and open fires. My neighbours have horses, and sometimes cows and sheep, and dogs, and tractors, and some of them also have children, and there's plenty of noise (and smells), and wild animals - I was woken last summer by a coughing sound and thought someone was loitering outside my window but it was actually one of the horses, so I did the normal thing, and let the neighbour know - not because I was annoyed, but because he should know his horse has a cough!

Some people don't like 'incomers' luckily the people round me seem to be OK with it - after weary conversations at first around whether I had a dog and if I would let it roam, and other feeling out on country matters :)

😆😆😆 I think I love you OP! Can I come and live in your holiday cottage? I'll bring my collection of bitey Indonesian free-range insects.

I can heartily recommend chickens , they make lovely pets with a bonus of delicious breakfasts. Not particularly noisy or smelly but our do this pretty little humming song first thing and make a bit of a fuss if next doors cat comes to stare at them. Willing to bet that your ndns would have a conniption fit though. Out local authorities allow hens, many don't allow a cockeral though

Oh I don't know about not noisy.. one of mine is very.. forthright... she races me to the back door when I get back from the school run so she can sneak in and eat the cat food, and is not above yelling at me through the window if she feels she sees I'm cooking and feels she's been shortchanged for scraps recently..

I know a couple of bands that would love to play for your family and friends in your garden. Can bring our own generators and PA. Do you like classic and Southern rock?

The whole tit for tat and passive aggressive palaver is going to escalate everything and you live beside them. It may stop being so ‘hilarious’ then you try and sell you’ll have to report a dispute.

Put away the flashing twinkle things - invite them for dinner and see what happens…

If I lived in the countryside and you moved in nextdoor I'd probably be pissed off too. Your noise and lighting choices do sound quite obnoxious.

Are you on drugs?

I have Christmas lights at Christmas and these moaning fucks have complained non stop about everything since they moved, and as outlined, they’re bigots and he’s a bully. So no, they won’t be coming for dinner. How bonkers.

Pity I was looking forward to hearing how it went.

Personally I enjoy doing the unexpected in conflict situations. You obviously prefer feuding.

Thanks for your concerned query. I am on legal drugs. I may have held a joint one time but I didn’t inhale.