too early?

[freeandhappy]

to cut the grass at this time of the morning on a sunday? i've just been yelled at by a neighbour, so am i being unreasonable or are they?

After 11AM no-one will shout at you.

9.30 is hardly the early hours of the morning and it is perfectly reasonable to want to cut your grass then.

Nearly, not everyone has children! In suburbia it's impolite.

We have finished mowing about to have brunch while looking at our freshly manicured lawn.

No not everyone has children, but I'm still surprised that people on here, mums, think 9.30 is early. 9.30 is hardly unreasonable even if you've been out until 2am (which is not your neighbours' fault).

And I said, anything after 8.30 would not bother me. Our last village was full of couples without children and usually sprung to life at 9 on a Sunday, with mowers, chainsaws, horses trotting past. Not everyone wants to waste a big chunk of their weekend in bed.

The horror of being impolite in suburbia!

You could always move to somewhere people don;t have lawns to mow. Like Hackney.

It's a hand mower if that makes any difference. Ah well. I will know in future. I'd say mon-fri nine o'clock is prob ok but I do think 9.15 on a Sunday is too early now. I sleep well mysel so I wouldn't be woken up by a law mower. And if I wa awake but having a lie in the sound of grass being cut wouldn't bother me either. It's only a teensy patch of grass but I thought I'd take my chance before it started pouring rain again.

Suburban rules. For every person who actually tells you they're angry there'll be three more who will smile at you in the street but won't take parcels in for you anymore.

Some of us have much better things to do at 9am on a Sunday

We did that at 8am

Unreasonable. I think 10.30/11am is the earliest you should do anything noisy on a Sunday. Good on your neighbour for saying something, I just silently seethe!

I think from 9am is okay personally

In response to the comment about farmers, I think there is a big difference between having to tend a whole farm to cutting a lawn, one takes all day, one a hour or so.

Our neighbourly farmer is out now but kindly let us sleep in this morning after our late night street party, he was invited

Someone across the road does theirs at 7am on the dot every weekend. Not near enough to us to wake us if we're still asleep, must be a little grating for their immediate neighbours though!

Could you explain to my attached next door neighbour that it is the height of bad manners to use a hammer drill at 6.50 on a Sunday morning. Bastard.

I would rather hear a lawn mower than techno at 9.30 on a sunday.

And i would rather have someone mow their lawn in the morning rather than have to hear it in athe afternoon when i might want to sit out with a book or have a bbq.

Took me over 2 hours to do my lawns front and back yesterday but i also cut next doors front verge to be a good neigbour and make up for the noise i was making.

Hope, my comment about farmers was purely to illustrate that we are used to the buzz of activity here. Good on yours for giving you a lie in though.

Yes, nearlythereyet, there is a buzz of activity the town dwellers just don't get to enjoy :)

8 or 830 would be fine by me. Hammer drill never nice!

Nope 11pm to 7 am are the hours you are supposed to keep the noise down. What lazy fu**er is still asleep at 9.30 am??

I am the lazy fucker that is still in bed (not always) asleep at 9:30am on a Sunday morning. Our weekends have been eroded enough without the need to DIY or gardening at such an early hour on a Sunday.

At 9am this morning DP and I were being read to by DS Harry Potter I do not need a mower to interfere with my family time on a Sunday morning thank you