So, what with the summer holidays and all, and the kids who live opposite (I'm guessing they range in age from 6 to about 10) are playing out a lot on our close. Which is good and nice and great and what kids should be doing. One of their favourite games is to throw a ball back and forth across the street, and very, very often it ends up in our front garden. We just have gravel out the front and no wall or fence by the pavement, so no bother, they just dash onto the gravel, pick it up and dash off again. I don't really mind that even when it happens every couple of minutes all bloody afternoon, though I sort of wish they'd take the ball into their own garden or over to the little green that's all of three houses down. But, no big deal.
Except that now they're not just doing that, they're chucking the ball in on purpose, dawdling off, running round the car on our drive during hide and seek, pausing to poke shrubs as they go by, picking up little stones and throwing them, and once the girl appeared with a spade and proceeded to briefly dig about in the gravel.
Am I just being precious about my personal space, or is this legitimately annoying? If they're going to keep this up until September I'll be sat in my living room going quietly spare. If your kids were doing this, would you want me to speak to them (politely, I'm not going to yell about it!) or to you?
Incidentally, we're renting, which means I probably can't just go and build a wall!