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

[silverten]

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.

YABU. When you work outside the home, you only have so much time to do it.

Many do not have daylight hours off with commuting and at weekends they may have something else on or be heading off on holiday.

Ll31 you tell her.

How dare she be mildly miffed at her child being kept awake

One of my neighbours has just started mowing their lawn! My 3 year old appears unaffected. It wouldn't have occurred to me to be bothered anyway!

DH's contracts often require him to work nights and a lot of weekends.

Someone judged me for drinking Gin on a Tuesday once, Tuesday (that particular week) was our Saturday.

haha! Drinking gin on a Tuesday, aldiwhore? You LUSH!

Actually now I think about it, our penchant for 'day of cleaning' music being ACDC is probably why noise doesn't much affect our childrens' sleep these days.... years of practice.

I used to drift off to a hoover, my parents took a career break and ran a pub for two years, I miss it actually. feels an Apprentice application form coming on

Sorry, YABU. That's a reasonable time to be outside making a noise. I wouldn't have thought it would affect sleep unless she is a very light sleeper. We do lots of noisy stuff in the evening - hoovering, mowing the lawn.

Gin on a Tuesday? quelle horreur

Oh look it's bloody TUESDAY! (Complete coincidence, I rarely know what day of the week it is, but I do know when the tide's about to change) chin chin yabyum

Can I hear the faint rustle of cotton wool as the OP wraps her PFB?

YABU and a bit passive aggressive.

Get over yourself

I had spent 2.5 hours trying to settle DD last night and just as she was settling some fucker appeared under her window bellowing on his mobile.

No one ever does that here either

I dunno but I can hear the sharpening of claws there

I'm off to try out my 'posh ice', I was feeling domesticated yesterday and went all River Cottage, only I didn't have a 'book' so I've frozen various flowers that may or may not be edible. Some may well be completely toxic.

Hurrah for Tuesday Gin.

730, would irritate me, child or no child

YABU! Life does not revolve around your 3 year olds bedtime. 7.30 is a perfectly reasonable time to be out mowing the lawn, especially in this weather.

No offence is meant to silverton by me.

I have been known to BVU when I just want to stop and some bugger decides it's a great time to cut down a tree, or test the stereo, or...well actually, when my boys were younger, just the sound of someone breathing too loudly would make me want to BVU.

Just roll with it op, I suspect when our children are teens, we'll be feeling VU a lot too.

Can we get #tuesdaygin trending?

yabu, DIY at 11pm or stripping wallpaper at 5 am is unreasonable..

yes yabu your dd should be able to sleep through it, if they work all day its quite a normal thing to do

My NDN has just started up his mower. IActually it doesn't seem to have woken up the DSs, who've been racing round the garden and into the paddling pool since their naps - I guess it's late enough that they've fallen into a deep sleep.

The other confusing thing is when you go to the supermarket at 8 or 9pm and see small children out shopping with parents.
I just assume that they nap in the day, that it's cooler in the evening and that's why they are there. They certainly seem cheerful.
Doesn't cross my mind that a preschooler should have a bed time at 7.30pm.

yabu and a tiny bit precious not everybody knows or remembers when a 3 yr old goes to bed and in the evening on a hot day is perfect to cut grass the world doesn't go round your toddler im afraid what if it was older kids out playing or people sitting chatting in their garden,

No kids here in our house but at 7:39 tonight we had all our back door open whilst we were playing music. The neighbours who do have a small child were out playing and BBQing at 7:30 (X2 sets), another set with small children have a dog that yaps from early until at least 8pm.

We also had one set of neighbours our mowing a lawn past 10 last night.

Some nights we are only just home by 7:30 so we personally wouldn't think twice about mowing a lawn before say 9:30?

I genuinely look forward to my kids finally going quiet and 'me' time instead. In fact I can get pretty irritated when they keep getting out of bed wanting a drink, the toilet, to tell me one more thing etc. I'm also a little bit obsessive about how much sleep they get because they're both arses when overtired and they never sleep in no matter how late they went to bed Anyway I digress, it would annoy me a little if someone mowed a lawn right under their window and they definitely would not go to sleep with that happening but I think other people with older kids, or no kids, it just wouldn't occur to them to worry about stuff like that and I don't think I'd be being reasonable to say anything to them either as it's just my ishoos and 7.30 is a good time to mow the lawn in this heat.

So YAB a little bit U imo but I understand.

Haha, get me all snappy!

you need an ice cream go out tomorrow and get 1 go on