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Original poster

To think that mowing your lawn directly outside a three year old's bedroom window at 730 is rather thoughtless?

135 replies

silverten · 09/07/2013 19:46

Just that really.

Neighbours know how old our DD is. They know we are home. So they should probably have an inkling that it's bedtime....

What do you think? I am thinking its quite selfish to make a racket of an evening, particularly as there will be windows open.

It's not a big actual problem, as it happens- I'm just curious to know what the mumsnet hive mind thinks.

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PseudoBadger · 09/07/2013 19:48

YABU I'm afraid.

FourEyesGood · 09/07/2013 19:48

Many people have no idea how early small children go to bed. Maybe you should ask them (very gently, without recriminations) if they could keep noisy stuff to toddler-friendly hours.

Footface · 09/07/2013 19:48

I think unless you have a 3 year old you forgot about bedtimes

maja00 · 09/07/2013 19:48

7.30pm is borderline. 8pm would definitely be too late imo.

ImNotBloody14 · 09/07/2013 19:49

i think it's 7.30 on a sunny evening and she's 3. I think she'll survive a half hour later bedtime. I think if she cant then you should shut your windows or put her in another bedroom. I think it's not selfish of them at all but actually quite a normal time for people who work to cut their grass on nice days. and I agree that it's neither a big nor actual problem.

mynewpassion · 09/07/2013 19:49

In this weather its a perfect time to mow the lawn

janey68 · 09/07/2013 19:49

Yabu; when do you expect people who are at work all day to cut the grass?

mrsravelstein · 09/07/2013 19:50

i feel your pain but don't think you can stop people doing stuff in their gardens in the summer. our neighbours had a dinner party in their garden last night and were playing the guitar and singing (it was actually quite pleasant but impossible for 5 year old whose bedroom is at back of house to sleep through)... but as it's a pretty rare occurrence i had to just grit my teeth

daisychain01 · 09/07/2013 19:50

I thought 3 year olds sleep through anything (wedding receptions with loud speakers blearing away, high street shopping on a Sat etc)

PestoSwimissimos · 09/07/2013 19:50

I think it's fine, it's not excessively late and it's the sort of 'white noise' that's conducive to sleep anyway.

LST · 09/07/2013 19:51

Yabu and I say that with a 20mo DS who is in bed by 6.30. Sorry.

cantspel · 09/07/2013 19:51

Mowing a lawn at 7.30 is hardly anti social and is part and parcel of living on top of each other.

ReindeerBollocks · 09/07/2013 19:51

YABU.

Working full time would make 7:30 a reasonable time to mow the lawn in this weather, especially if they don't have little children.

officelady · 09/07/2013 19:52

Well .... I wouldn't be beyond mowing my lawn at 7.30pm in weather like this, and I'd be pretty pissed off if someone asked me not to. I don't think I'd start mowing after 8pm though. I don't have neighbours with young kids either.

Sirzy · 09/07/2013 19:53

YABU. DS is 3.5 but I would never expect others to change their behaviour on there own property at 7.30 on a lovely sunny evening because of him.

cees · 09/07/2013 19:53

Yabu

KobayashiMaru · 09/07/2013 19:54

If they work full time when do you think they can mow their lawn? Of course yabu.

teatimesthree · 09/07/2013 19:55

YABU - presumably they work, so need to do the garden in the evenings.

SchrodingersFanny · 09/07/2013 19:56

I have a three year old and dh cuts our lawn after he is in bed, by his window. So I think yabu.

It wouldn't occur to me that a child would be disturbed by it.

ParadiseChick · 09/07/2013 19:56

Yabu but I think you might have realized that by now!

financialwizard · 09/07/2013 19:57

My 3 yr old Dd sleeps through everything so I still do the gardening at that time of night, although she likes weeding so we try and do the garden on a weekend.

Eyesunderarock · 09/07/2013 19:57

Hey, you could mow their lawn for them when they're at work next time.
That way they won't have to do their gardening after a long hot day trapped in a building.

Original poster
silverten · 09/07/2013 19:58

Like I said, it's not an actual problem. I've no intention of speaking to the neighbours about it. For what it's worth, DH and I also work and manage to mow our lawn at the weekend during the day. I imagine most people who work have at least some time off work during the daytime hours...

I was just a bit Hmm about it. I was brought up to think about other people as well as what I wanted.

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bigbluebus · 09/07/2013 19:58

Sorry but I don't think mowing at 7.30pm in unreasonable. I often mow my lawn in the daytime and one of my neighbours works nights. I mow my lawn when it suits me, I don't deliberately want to annoy the neighbour, but if I waited for a convenient time for everyone, I'd never get anything done!

I'm sure your neighbour doesn't mow his lawn more than once a week - suck it up.

Sirzy · 09/07/2013 19:59

They may well have time of during the weekend, but they may have different things they want to do with that time.

TBH given the heat at the moment I think waiting until it is cooler in the early evening makes a lot of sense.