Whole family in garden till 8.30

[DorothyL]

So noise from talking, ball playing, jumping on trampoline... Acceptable or not? (on a Monday?)

Yes absolutely acceptable! :)

Unless you mean 8.30am having been out all night then yes yabu.

Umn, yes?

I'd say its fine, 8.30 is not late.

Absolutely! How lovely got a family to be outside enjoying the garden and nice weather.

Why not? They're taking full advantage of the lighter nights.

Completely acceptable-is it a problem for someone?

Yes acceptable.

This was us, just worried we might have upset the neighbours

Yep. We were out in our garden 'on a school night' til about 9.30 last week. 3 primary school age kids playing and a load of adults getting pissed catching up!

Yes perfectly acceptable.

Make the most of the fine weather. Perfectly fine

Yes that's fine (although our neighbours have a baby so I don't allow excessive yelling from ds's after 7pm)

Yes, fine. Close your kids windows if they are disturbed. 10.30pm probably less acceptable. Is this every evening OP?

As long as no shouting/screeching, then its fine.

As long as you were respectful of any neighbours that may have young children and not being too loud/kicking balls against walls/playing music etc then it's lovely to see people out enjoying the lighter nights.

Some of my fav childhood memories are from 'playing out' in the light evenings until nearly nine o'clock before being called home for a quick face scrub, teeth clean and to bed :)

Perfectly acceptable. It's tricky managing light and warm evenings with neighbours either side but it's just a case of mutual respect. Don't do anything youd not be happy hearing yourself!

I say this whilst sat in my own garden tonight listening to next-door-but-one having a hell of a party. I think it's an 'end of GCSEs' thing. Lots of karaoke and so far two crying girls

Totally acceptable - we get so little opportunity to do that in this country (and I'm jealous coz it's freezing here today!)

Yep fine here my two are 8 and 13, but after 8pm I tell them to talk quietly in case of babies sleeping. Love my garden of an evening in the summer.

yep i recon its fine. our summers dont last long so make most of it :)

As long as it's the person's own garden and they aren't making unusual or disruptive levels of noise I think it's fine to be out there till 3am if they so choose. Their garden to do what they like in.

It depends. not if you're my neighbours who seem incapable of being outside without screaming, screeching and banging.

Perfectly fine, though I would put my foot down at kids shrieking at that time, knowing that some people have tots to get to sleep. I only wish some of our neighbours had when DS1 was little.

Yes! it's fine! So long as no horrid screeching. Our neighbour was out at 8.30 drilling and sawing, which us more disruptive IMO...