To have a 6:30am freestyle drumming party with three 6yos tomorrow morning?

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My newish neighbour is having a party. He's met us and knows we have three small children. He's also met the other neighbour in our group of houses, an older lady.

The two other houses here are empty - both families on holiday.

The music is crazy loud, the kids are already going nuts with the lack of sleep and older lady neighbour has just been round asking for our help getting the noise down. Not off, I get that it's 11:30 on a saturday, just down.

So DH goes round, already to be civilised, and gets told to 'fuck off.' The music is now louder. They're screaming.

The police won't be interested, we're rural. Revenge is on my mind and his bedroom overlooks my back garden. I'm sure I can fashion drums out of various bits of the kitchen and shed.

AIBU? They certainly are

Brilliant work OP!

Do you have a particular toy that needs sharing? Maybe one with batteries and loud noises? Definitely bring that out and encourage your little ones to decide who plays with it first ... I'm sure they will manage that nice and quietly

Oooh, surely it's almost time for the Gummi Bear song? 6yos sing that one with such musicality

Can I suggest the classic "I know a song that will get on your nerves..." then you can record them and just keep playing?

(Although that's you screwed forever but it might be worth it)

Do you have a car alarm you could set off? If so, then set it off, curse a bit, turn it off, then set it off again, and so on, all at irregular intervals. You could have quite a jolly half an hour of failing to fix the problem.

If it's warm enough for the kiddies, how about letting them play and shriek in a sprinkler?

Goodness, it's amazing how noisy three DCs repeatedly banging a large metal watering can with tennis racquets can be.

Time to create a through draft to that back door......oops it just keeps slamming!

Do you have a kiddy Karaoke machine? My next door neighbours LO did and used to regularly sing very out of tune to entire street at 8am on a Sunday morning.

If you don't have one and there is a repeat performance of last night I would recommend getting one, no one could sleep through that!

Yes, make sure to use your shriekiest voice when telling them to keep it down.

If they have warned you and it's a one off/yearly thing YABVU

People are entitled to have the odd party in their life, just as you are entitled to have kids that no doubt, if they are like mine, get up very early on the weekend and are generally noisy getting on everyone's tits.

The slamming doors thing is pretty normal in our house

Older lady neighbour is up. The Moana soundtrack has been recommended. Should I start with 'you're welcome!'?

As much as I'm enjoying the updates, can I just chip in to say that noise nuisance complaints should go to the council, not the police. There's very little the police can do. If it continues, keep a diary and present it to the council - they should be able to help further. Please don't lie to the police and say that there's a fight if you know there isn't - they put their own, and other people's lives, at risk every time they blue light it to an incident and are diverted away from real emergencies. (Yes, I do know how frustrating neighbour problems are, I've lived for years opposite grown men who like to party which is why I applaud your efforts this morning!)

They absolutely did not warn us. I saw him on Friday. Not a word. If he'd warned us I wouldn't be so annoyed, we'd have gone to Grandmas.

And I don't mind the party, I mind the volume of the party AFTER eleven thirty. And being told to fuck off when we asked them to turn it down.

I love this thread

You can't set a precedent that loud, late parties are ok. And the worst of it is, you went to ask if they could lower the volume and was told to "fuck off". He sounds like a dick.

This is a funny thread, and I don't blame you for being angry about the way your neighbour responded to a perfectly reasonable request, but from your first posts it sounded like the party wound down at midnight or so.

How late was it before you were all able to get to sleep?

A one off party isn't unreasonable and if your neighbour is indeed a knobber, you may be really inflaming things.

It's eight o'clock now.
Time for a show?
Could use tins and wooden spoons for drums if you don't have any.

My old neighbour did this. May I recommend putting on repeat 'no limit ' a 90's classic which 6 years can join in with 

This, definitely this!! Loudly, on repeat......all day!

I see you your Moana soundtrack and raise you - toy musical instruments. Bonus points if one of them is a recorder.

My neighbour's DD was out late last night with her toy xylophone; after an hour of her 'performance' I would have gladly signed over my life savings to make it stop!

The music stopped at 12:20. The screaming, shouting, singing, taxi beeping etc went on for another hour. Our phone reception here isn't so great, which is why taxis beep, but they're not supposed to.

2 of our neighbours had a noise war. we moved.

No music yet.

Knobber has just slammed closed his bedroom window so I think I've made my point with the playing.

Definitely time for "You're welcome" from Moana, then!

OP, I completely sympathise. Living rurally makes you less tolerant of noise from neighbours I think. And less tolerant of arsehole neighbours too. After all there is a reason you (& I) choose to live rurally.

Perhaps you will need to do some brush-cutting, chainsawing, mowing, circular sawing, angle grinding, or some other very noisy outdoor rural activity very early on a Sunday morning perhaps accompanied by very loud country & western musak (you are after all, living in the 'country').

The loan of a rooster or two would also be effective, especially if you can give him/them back after a few weeks at your place.