Vote: what time is acceptable for a family to have breakfast in their garden on a Sunday morning?

[Giggsie]

Assume this is a garden of a terraced house in a large city. Also assume the family have kids and dogs but it’s a normal sound level breakfast: talking but not shouting, no barking, no music.

9am onwards at wknds I'd say.

I think 5 people chatting and dogs allowed outside would make more noise then you think in the summer with people asleep with windows open. I think its quite anti social before 9am.

I too think it’s a bit antisocial before 9am on a Sunday.

That amount of people talking would have been louder than you think, but I wouldn’t have complained.

Agree, this is about right for most people

Once you’re woken up early, you’re awake? Not really odd imo but ok.

Not before 10am on a Sunday - unless you want me to turn into your friendly neighbourhood axe murderer.

'Have breakfast in the garden' - any time, as I wouldn't really expect that to create any noise

'Have a family gathering' with kids and dogs and present opening - anything before 9am is selfish. (Personally I think before 10, but 9 would probably closer to what a lot of people think).

Crikey. This one doesn't 🥱

If you are going to disturb your neighbours, not before 9am on a Sunday.

Faints.

Part of this is because my neighbour’s adult children (x5 and all have partners) deem it acceptable to play music very loudly for 12 hrs non stop to the point you can’t hear some one stood next to you, they also have random get togethers and don’t inform anyone, smoke horrible amounts of weed that is vile and I worry about my own children. So if my children would like to bounce on their trampoline, or go for run in the garden and get rid of the cobwebs because they are about to be cooped up indoors because of the noise or be grumpy because they didn’t get a good nights sleep 7am is perfectly acceptable.

Interesting that people think Sunday has got any relevance. Lots of people work shifts these days and vanishingly few observe it as a day of rest.
Everyone makes noise. Other people's noise is the price you pay for not being rich enough to live in a secret lair. But apparently this is more problematic on Sundays.

Not just Sunday. I'd apply the same rule to Saturday. It's just common neighbourly consideration/thoughtfulness.

This.

Most shift workers I know have a system in place how to sleep with day-to-day noise. They manage sleppeing during the day where you have a lot more noise than an early breakfast.

I would still think that Sunday is the day most people without tiny humans or dogs will sleep in. We definitely saw a difference in traffic and people around when we drove DD to her riding lesson at 8.30am Sunday mornings compared to her 11am lesson she later was moved to.

It’s your garden so you can do what you like but 8am is normal for low level chatter over breakfast