To tell you that if you/your husband/son whatever was cutting the grass at 6.30am this morning...,

[BuzzBuzzBuzzLightyear]

He is an arsehole.

As are you, for not preventing it from happening.

I can think of not one single acceptable, passable excuse for such arseholery.

As someone who had already been up for hours due to work this wouldnt have bothered me.

I am an early riser(half down to the work shifts i do) and i wanted to cut my grass at 6.30am the other day but ds talked me out of it.

Pfft, I'd find it hard to get upset over this, having lived with neighbours putting Russian techno on at 5 am and now living over the way from the estate party house.

Pretty sure SkyBluePink was being sarcastic when she said they're entitled to do it.

I was being very sarcastic. Thanks for spotting that.
I think we need a sarcasm font.

Lawnmowing IS noisy, but it is at least a consistent noise, unlike stop-start strimming, say.

If I happen to be in my room in the day not at all having a sneaky afternoon nap and the neighbour starts mowing, it doesn't jolt me awake. It just buzzes along in the background as a sort of summer white noise.

That's not to say I would do it myself that early though, even if I have been up for ages. That is in no small part due to the fact I love being the only person outside in the mornings and once people know others are up, they all decide to follow suit.

Yanbu.

I thought it was understood as an unwritten rule 8am is the earliest for garden stuff and 11pm the latest?

Before and after these times you make no more noise than you would if you were talking inside your house.

*"No no it's unacceptable on any day of the week, but I'm usually up and about at half six during the week coz work. I'd still think what a tosser but it wouldn't waken me up.

Saturday/Sunday though, 6.30am is still the middle of the night as far as I'm concerned. I work hard all week. I don't need to be up at half six on those days. "*

Buzz I get your point and I do think 6.30am any morning is a shitty thing to do to your neighbours! In fact due to the fact I usually am at work until 12 on average most nights and in bed after food/shower and other stuff by say 2, I'd be willing to kill someone for waking me 4.5 hours later! I do feel though that during the week because a lot of people are up anyway, a lot don't realise how noisy and inconsiderate they can be (not saying this is you BTW, it's an observation which ties in with this thread) but it's a case of because it's Mon to Fri it's tough, the fact that I would think that a lot of people now work shifts, weekends etc and their days off are midweek and you rarely get a lie in because others are going about their day. Seems to me a bit of a double standard, that it's more accepted to disturb your neighbours Mon to Fri than on a weekend.
That said after working shifts and nights through summer hols I can pretty much sleep through anything these days!

My neighbour got the hump because my toddler was chatting in the garden at 8.30 on a weekday. We're going to go out at 6 next weekend

My mil says if you're not up by six you should be
Must have been a dry night though cos my mower gets well clogged up that early

Dopey: what time does your MIL dictate that you should go to bed?