To be getting a bit bored of Next Door's Trampoline now

[Mrsdoasyouwouldbedoneby]

I don't mind enough to say anything, but it is getting tiresome having zero privacy in the back of the house because their HUGE trampoline looks right over the fence, even if they are not bouncing. The garden is very small (bigger than mine tho...), and only fits the trampoline in. It is also close enough to our NEW (and expensive cos we had to get someone to do the WHOLE fence), to bang it. AND while the older children are lovely really (I just don't want them staring in my messy kitchen all the time), calling my son and DH Mr Poo is not on (even if for some reason it makes me snigger). It's just an invasion of our privacy.

I mean I KNow the fence took ages to get up (due to rain), and I guess that was an invasion of privacy the other way (and I forgot to send round the cake to say thank you, cos I am a numpty), but AIBU to wish it wasn't there.

I don't object all the time.. just when I feel I am being watched. LOL

They'll be back at school soon wont they, or are they very young?

YANBU, especially if it is banging your new fence, this reply comes from a fellow new fence owner (also with a messy kitchen) and i couldn't believe how much the whole thing ended up costing. No holiday for us this year. I ended up paying for the whole fence as neighbours couldn't agree with price and I just wanted it done.
You could try politely pointing out that it is constantly banging the fence and could they please move it. You know they can't, but at least see what they say and you are making them aware of the issue without being to much of a whinging battleaxe.

our neighbours have a trampoline and they got 2 bloody chickens at the weekend

Thank you... yes, I will ask them to shift it a bit, sweetened up with a box of choccys to say thanks for being reasonable over the whole fence change... I suspect that the thing has moved slightly... I think they could move it... I made a slight exaggeration... they have a green house in their garden too... so I appreciate their wanting to keep the kids away from that. Yes, older kids.. so back to school this week (so am I mind... ).

Fortunately no bouncing in the dark! Yay to autumn coming.

If they call DS names any more I will have words. DH can fight his own battles.

Sympathies on the Chickens. I think we have a bylaw here preventing them.

Mrsdoasyouwouldbedoneby
The problem with the chickens is that I usually feed there cat while they are on holiday,now I can see them asking me to look after the hens as well

YANBU

YANBU - although I am taking notes on how to annoy my neighbours from hell as my children get older.

Seems trampoline is top of the list

YANBU but you can have lots of gos on their trampoline while you are meant to be feeding the cat and chickens.

How about a combined trampoline party and barbecue (with chicken).

Ah, so the chickens are ok then. I'd be freaked by feeding them tho too. All those feathers.

Yes, a trampoline is most annoyin (boing boing*. At my paretns old house (who had an 85ft garden so AMBLE for a trampoline), their neighbours had a trampoline and my mum hated it. She called them the kangeroos. I think the anooying part for her was that the thing was positioned in such a way that made her house more visible than the kids own home!

My mum is coming for a visit... have already made things a bit difficult because I have said NO to their dog (after it nipped- leaving marks- DS after they both got excited on my DSF coming in)... and now we have kangeroos...

No! Our 16 year old neighbour spends most of his time on the trampoline that is level with the top of our fence (their garden is higher than ours). DH had to tell his (much) younger step-brothers to stop climbing on the wall, using our fence to support themselves, and jumping from there onto the trampoline. And yes, it literally reaches from the back wall of their house to the fence separating the gardens.