To be pissed off that our neighbour is mowing the lawn right now at 9pm?

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Kids have just been woken up, he started about 15mins ago, currently doing hos section of the communal green space outside, I'm guessing he's then going to move on to his front and back gardens. It's a petrol one too so effing noisy!

wideopenspace.... Because other things go on during the day which are disturbing too.... Such as postman, cars up and down, window cleaner, bin lorry, other neighbours lawnmowers, light glaring through the window. Kids are just part of that. If you nap during the day you accept that. I would be pissed off if any of those things, including kids screeching, happened at 9pm and I'm trying to sleep.

Give over. Yabu. I'd rather listen to a pensioner doing his lawn at 9am than the thumping dance music and end of school party across the back which won't stop until midnight.

It's far better than 630am

9pm sorry.

soupdragon because it's noisy and I have to wait for it to stop.

cheby my children didnt sleep through it, it woke them up and made them grumpy. Thats what pissed me off. If it hadn't of then I prob wouldnt have been bothered, or noticed it, until I'd gone to bed.

He's still going :/

Ah.BUT what if there was someone doing a nightshift living nearby. HMM?

It's fine. The world does not revolve around your children! Close the windows and put a fan on

Yabu. 9 isn't late and it's still light at that time. The world doesn't revolve around your children's bedtimes.

I don't get home til 7 or sometimes later, so I really don't think mowing the lawn at 9 is too late. I'm often vacuuming well after 10/11pm, as otherwise I'd never do it during the week.

We also had a fairly large fire in the garden at from about 8-10 earlier in the week. Again, the only time we could do it, and didn't want to wait til weekend as it's forecast rain here so all the dry stuff would've got wet.

It's unreasonable! Especially if he's retired. Surely he could put some sunscreen on and do it earlier...

My neighbours do things like this AND they've got young kids so they know how desperate you are to get them off to sleep!!

I would be annoyed about bonfires tonight too.

I'm a bit intolerant I think

It's not that late on a summer's evening. But I don't blame you for being annoyed.

I love hearing lawnmowers in the evening! Takes me back to summer days as a child when I'd hear them as I was dropping off to sleep. Probably nearer 7.30pm than 9pm but holds happy memories for me.

The thing is OP, when my kids were little I used to think a bit like you...only a bit though.

Then when your kids grow up, you realise that actually neighbourhoods are for everyone, not just those with small children.

Obviously your kids are your priority, but you can't expect them to be everyone else's.

Besides, they do need to get used to these things, otherwise they may grow up similar to you, in the sense that they couldn't go to bed until someone turns their lawnmower off...instead of just getting on with their night time routine.

There is probably only a handful of days in the year where it is dry/light enough to even consider doing it so late!

Just like kids playing out a bit later it's part of summer.

Surely he could put some sunscreen on and do it earlier...

Surely you realise that sunburn is not the only good reason for a pensioner to not push a lawn mower up and down the garden in a 30 degree heat.

I get that you find it annoying. Today has been an exceptionally hot day though, so it is understandable why he has mowed the lawn during the evening.

Maybe your neighbour has plans at the weekend so will not have time to do it then.

I know this is the UK weather we are talking about here, but when my mum and her family lived in Australia, my grandmother and her neighbours used to mow their lawns and trim their bushes up until midnight apparently.

My neighbour before my DP and I moved out to the middle of nowhere, used to chainsaw her bush in the evening during the summer.

I think it's too late to start mowing. OP said he's still going and it just gone 10. Would piss me off.

If it's too hot during the day leave it for a few days. It won't kill him to have a less than manicured lawn.

Mine is overdue for cutting because I hurt my back last week and I'm certainly not cutting it in the heat of the day. I have more consideration for my neighbours than to do it in the evening though (I'm retired too).

Think 8pm is pretty much a cut off point to start something noisy like that.

The strimmer's going now :/.... It's so high pitched!

He has a very manicured lawn and garden. He spends a lot of time on it. He mows about 3 times a week, but I dont recall it being from 9pm before, as the kids havent woken up before, so maybe it is the weather.

Ooh, its stopped! Yey!.... Its now half hr past my bedtime :/

I probably wouldn't mow the grass after 8. If the weather is a bit iffy and there is only a small window of opportunity then maybe, iyswim.

Half hour past your bedtime? Jeez, grow up a bit!?

anyone i wasn't pissed off about that.

Glad it wasn't just me sniggering at "chainsaw her bush"