school holidays

[fedupand50ish]

Do you realise that you have neighbours who would sometimes like to sit in their gardens at some point in July/August and enjoy some peace and quiet!

My parents complained about the people opposite putting a trampoline in their front garden and their kids leaping up and down noisily whilst grabbing onto next door's garage guttering.

I actually think they had a point.

I suggested my parents get their own and leap up and down on it naked. I reckoned a couple of baby boomers will bits flapping everywhere would deter the young. Luckily the family have now moved and peace has been restored.

OMG...The Ryder Cup!!! Just told DH, he wants to know if he can move into your house!

fedup, I'm not sure what reaction you expected- the clue is in the title of the website.

i do actually hate alot of noise,despite having 5 dc. we are in social housing here,so mixed in with the elderly,am concious about them being there and especially one lady,who has nurses visiting alot and i know she's not got long left.

but i let them play out.....just not shriek and shout unnecesarily. and i remind the other kids outside too...we also have a family with a new baby to consider.

pmsl @ wordsonascreen - failure to add gherkin

op - you mention in your day going off exploring. you do know children can't do this these days, don't you? they aren't shoved out the door at 9am and told not to come back til lunchtime. often the only chance parents get to do household chores is when the children are in the garden.

50- To be fair you get 39 weeks of peace and quiet to enjoy sitting out in your garden.The other 13 the kiddies get a go.
You are obviously a troll, probably a journalist

fedupand50ish - I think you have a point. Some families are very loud all the time. It would annoy me, too. Obv. one expects shrieks and squeaks and laughter from the garden of a home with children, but not all day every day.

Other annoyances are people strimming at 8am on a Sunday, and the pyromaniacs who scupper our chances of enjoying a G&T on the patio by having bonfires seemingly every evening.

at Boffin's cunning plan!

what colditz says (though I intend dropping notes through my nice neighbours' doors informing then that as a childminder I am VERY busy this summer and most of our play time will be outside and will no doubt be noisy a lot of the time - I say nice, because we have one Not Nice neighbour [that you, OP?] and I intend to irritate the fucking life out of her over the summer.)

I may say fuck so because I am not childminding right now.

at professional mum...... though clearly what OP meant was a mum who has a Real Job What Important People Do. Not like us lowly CMs and STUFF, for example.

SanctiMoanyArse - you're in Newport with me!!!

We've got a church behind us - every sodding sunday morning at 7 o clock, they start 'rehearsing'. It's one of these modern 'Jesus had a guitar kids' type churches. This pisses me off no end, but I get on with it - ooh, and my dh is '50-ish' I'll let him read this and then he can silence our 4 year old and 10 year old, as clearly at his age, he wants to sit quietly with his plants and flowers blooming beautifully around him..

Taking joy in annoying your neighbours is more than a bit petty though - you're using your kids as weapons then and that's kind of despicable.

SanctiMoanyArse and Nattiecake me too! (well five or six miles away) - Wave to the 'port mumsnetters!

emptyshell, you would in all likelihood do the same if we shared a neighbour. she is nasty and vitriolic with absolutely no endearing features.

Seriously i would like to know what people do say to the 50 somethings that think reducing your children to tears is allowed ?
Mine sing on their trampoline, it is god awful hence i make them do it in the garden so i haven't got to listen to it.
But our neighbours keep yelling at the children to shut up and on the odd occasion DD yells back that her mummy will call the police on them for being mean lol an oldish man yells back "whatever" I mean it's quite comical but for the fact that they are snappy and make the children cry sometimes.
Would you go and knock their door ? I just don't want things getting out of hand or silly.

i meant no redeeming features, of course.

Mamatomany, yes if you feel up to it, then go and knock on your neighbour's door and talk about the situation. Don't let it escalate unnecessarily. Having a chance to meet you may make things easier. It is harder to be mean to a face you know than to a faceless babble of kids, iykwim.

mamatomany I think Yabu if you can't stand listening to it, why should your neighbours? No I certainly wouldn't go over, but I think if you do, you should expect a telling off!

OP - Fuck Off you trolling twat

Expect a telling off lol will they spank me too
I may not love their singing but they've every right to do it in their own garden at a reasonable time of day.

mamatomany - you are joking, aren't you?

Your neighbour sounds mean - but you send your dd outside because you can't stand her singing! What makes you think your neighbours are going to enjoy it any more than you do?

I don't think we're expecting a round of appalause at the end but they can't expect kids to be quiet in their own gardens, I wouldn't allow screaming and shrieking but singing is perfectly acceptable and if they don't like it go indoors, like I do

Just want to say what a funny thread, certainly made me smile.

BTW down our end the kids (not mine) play out till all hours when there's no school. Yes its annoying sometimes, but I certainly wouldnt think to complain to ANYONE. Oh and I wouldn't call our street full of 'professional mums' who live through their children either.

I send mine out to smash other peoples windows and graffiti the local area in the ho,idays. Isn't that what we're supposed to do?