to think 5pm on a gorgeous Sunday evening is a wholly unacceptable time to mow one's lawn?

[thestoker]

Well, it is, isn't it? For, I believe, 99% of the population. Unfortunately for ME, the socially inept buffoon residing behind my house makes up the other %.

I don't care who mows their lawn or when, as long as it isn't at an unacceptable time. Very early in the morning or late at night.
What's wrong with 5pm, when folk are probably eating tea

ds mowed ours at 5pm today.

It was the perfect time. After heat of the day, and before dinner.

Can't see why on earth it is a problem.

If you don't like the noise, then it will annoy you at any time of day.

YABVU

YABU.

If you'd said 9pm, I'd agree.

Morning the grass is still wet. Then it's too hot. 5pm is perfect.

YABU and when did 5pm become the evening? It's still the afternoon surely?

As someone who has to retreat to the house with windows closed when someone starts mowing the lawn anywhere nearby (acute allergy, for some reaon it's the one thing that has me turning blue and sucking on my asthma inhaler like a mad thing), I have mild sympathy if you were outside having a nice evening. But even I wouldn't suggest anyone who didn't know my medical issue with it was in any way unreasonable for choosing 5pm as optimal mowing time.

Weekday evenings?? Maybe it's just us, but by the time DH is home at 7.30ish and easten and we've done all the parental taxi uns, it would be deeply antisocial to start mowing....

teacher, if you were my neighbour, I would mow it while you are at work

(but ds might be disappointed he has lost his job!)

Any time at the weekend between 9am and 7pm is surely fair game, but sometimes a bit of sensitivity might be appropriate, e.g. if you can see your neighbour is having "a thing" in their garden.

Our NDN has the noisiest lawn mower in the world. It is horrendous, there is nothing pleasant and "English summer evening" about this beast. We were once having a family do in the garden to celebrate a significant event. All sat down with nice buffet and glasses of fizz and away he went with his wretched machine, drowning all conversation.

But I know that lunch time on a Sunday is an acceptable time to mow your lawn really, it was just this particular context that was annoying.

5pm is still afternoon to me, a perfect time to mow the lawn. Not right in the middle of the day when everyone will be out in their gardens but not when everyone's unwinding for the evening either.

thestoker I completely agree with you

I once had a neighbour who did DIY out in his garden until late and only stopped because it got too dark! He had absolutely no awareness of others around him or the fact they might want to sit in their garden in peace. Sawing and hammering night after night got incredibly tiresome. BBQ smells, music are a pain in the arse but thankfully most people do not do that day after day. His DIY took forever!! Some people are naturally extremely considerate of others and some are just not, sadly.

5pm is a good time for watering the garden, not mowing
It is probably just as well I have no neighbours now...!

I am now glad that 1) I have few near neighbours and 2) my lawn is a variety of greenery that grows to 30mm and then stops (it's called NoMow) - I will never have to mow the lawn again.

I can therefore enjoy my garden and fill it with the sounds of music & water splashing and baking pizza smells all summer long :) and winter and probably most of the rest of the year too :)

Is this a wind up?

7am to 10pm- fine in my book

5pm = evening? Eh?

Yabu

I would've thought it was a very good time

Normhonal I don't get why you wouldn't mow the lawn when your neighbours were out either!
OP- YABU

YabRidiculous.
And I prefer the sound of a mower to the sound of bloody birds. Now that IS an irritating relentless noise.

"And I prefer the sound of a mower to the sound of bloody birds. Now that IS an irritating relentless noise."

Is this a wind up?

I love the sound of birdsong. It's nature innit.

Birds are fine during the day. At 4am (earlier at the moment) - not so much.

But Diddl you also can't hang your washing outside on a Sunday in Germany. That is an unreasonable law. IMO it's a crime to not take advantage of a lovely sunny day to get all your washing on the line.

Our NDN cuts his grass with a pushmower every other day. He must be very lawnproud. He does it about 7.30-8pm. I would mind if it kept DS awake but it doesn't seem to.

Never mind the niceties of mowing!

What is this No Now wonder if which you speak?

Hideous hayfever is giving me the rage today so would be more than happy to never deal with the bastard lawn and its buggery buggering pollen ever again.

I thought that that was only in certain areas RonSwan

i love lawnmower sounds so im odd really swap houses? my neighbours dont mow often enough!

Is it Diddl? I know it was the case for where my friends lived near Dusseldorf. They couldn't wash their cars on Sunday either.

I have to say that I'm not 100%, Ron.

I'm sure I've had washing out on a Sunday at some point in the years I've been here.

In the back garden, out of view from the road iyswim.

Doesn't mean that I should have, of course.

Just that the neighbours didn't complain!