to be pissed off with neighbour mowing grass today

[BarefootMe]

I will probably be shot down for this. First really sunny day for months when we could enjoy our garden. We have grass and were sitting out for first time this year, enjoying late breakfast and the papers - utter bliss. Then next door neighbour started his very noisy ride-on mower. Their garden is much bigger than hours and it took nearly an hour of noise, petrol fumes etc. Then a peaceful break, and just relaxing again this afternoon when he started up again, and then produced another mower for the edges - more noise, more fumes.
For context we have had a really difficult time since last summer, very stressful and this was literally the first day we could really let go and relax without pressures to think about. Neighbour does not know that, but I am annoyed because it is inconsiderate. He works from home a lot of the time, and could have done this on a weekday. Very old fashioned probably, but I was brought up not to create any disturbance on a Sunday which was regarded as a day or rest when your neighbours deserved peace and quiet. For that reason, I never use a mower on a Sunday, or do other noisy building work, etc. Just needed to express my annoyance and regret at the return of tension so soon.

Well said StorminaTeacup.

Some posters need to take a serious look at themselves.....

I expected to see this thread in the Daily Mail today.
Rage as neighbour refuses to observe the sabbath by using 2 different types of lawnmower to cut his grass.

Neighbour was castigated by Mumsnet users for refusing to tiptoe around his garden and observe the lords traditional day of peace.

Apparently the poster had been having a hard year and this was the first day they had ever got to relax, only to have it destroyed by a selfish horticulturalist who works from home but was to lazy to mow his lawn on a weekday. To add insult to injury the selfish gardener had the temerity to use a ride-on mower.

I have a silent lawn mower. It's one of those old fashioned push ones. It's 'cause I am such a loverly, considerate neighbour and has nothing to do with the fact I don't have a shed or anywhere dry and secure to store and electric lawn mower.

Uck that aul Sunday peace and quiet thing.

It's still big round here so although it's a pain in the arse for us we feel like we have to avoid noisy jobs on a Sunday.

Yesterday would have been ideal to power wash but, no, I had to drink a G&T and read in the garden instead. I don't have the time any other day to get a good run at those bigger jobs.

Only have one neighbour but feel like I can't piss them off and the Sunday thing would do it.

Not on mainland but work with woman from England and she said it seems to be more a thing here but wasn't so much in England.

Think I'm destined to be a well read alcoholic with filthy yard.

My neighbour is cutting up paving slabs for his patio today, and has been since 7:30 this morning. I’m about ready to kill him to be honest

I wouldn’t mind if it was occasional noise, but he’s always making some sort of racket - he’s been building an extension for nearly a year. He’s doing it himself so evenings and weekends and my patience is wearing very thin

I don’t get it.

If Sunday afternoon, when the weather is fine and the grass is dry, isn’t a good time to do the lawn mowing, when is? When you are out? Why should your neighbours fit their life around you?

Their motivation was to get their shops open legally

Oh right. So shops opening on Sunday has absolutely nothing to do with mowing a lawn on a Sunday.

The breakfast bbq thread yesterday suggested that that activity was anti social even on a sunny weekend.
To me a noisy lawn mowing hour is more anti social than a bbq.

However, both are perfectly normal sunny day activities so we have to put up with both surely?

From my perspective, lawn mowing etc on a sunny Sunday is normal. My neighbours do it, as do I.
I've never had any complaints, or comments.
I am not religious, do not attend church, and Sunday is the easiest day for me to do these jobs.
However, if I was aware that a religious neighbour greatly valued their peace on a Sunday, and made me aware of this, I would be happy to adapt my behaviour accordingly.
I brief note through the door may help. Something like:
Hello neighbour. We have noticed that you enjoy mowing your lawns on a Sunday, which is not a problem. However, we perceive Sunday as a holy day, and as such we prefer to spend the day quietly.
However, we do attend ABC church between the hours of X and Y.
Obviously, we have no problem with noise at home during those hours, but would greatly appreciate if the noise could be reduced around those hours.
We are aware that there is no legal restriction around mowing on Sundays, but would greatly appreciate your observance our of beliefs and traditions if it can be accommodated.
Also, if there is anything we can do to reduce our noise at inconvenient times, please let us know. We would be more than happy to facilitate a mutually respectful relationship.
Thanks, OP.

If I received such a note, I would take on board the church times, and do my best to work around it.
I'd be upset to think I was regularly causing unknown upset my to neighbours, and only finding out on Mumsnet.

I would be peeved too, OP, at having my hard-earned rest disturbed, but I think it's a fact of life that people are going to be doing stuff on sunny days. Unless you're lucky enough to have a huge garden with lots of distance between your neighbours, you're going to get noise at all sorts of annoying times. It's a pain, but it's the result of living on top of each other. Unless there's something really antisocial happening like intrusive music, I think we all just have to kind of suck it up.

I mowed my lawn today and whilst I did it, I thought of you OP.

Well one of our neighbours mowed him s field yesterday, towed it up last night and collected the silage today - with big tractors and everything! He was, as they say, making hay (silage) whilst the sun shone. 🤣. Lovely noise! Means things are as they should be.
Dh mowed our pitiful lawn today too. Next door did theirs yesterday.
It’s life, it’s good, it’s living alongside others.

Oh ffs - mowed HIS field and ROWED it up!

Crikey Crikey that seems early. The field behind us doesn't usually get done until July at the earliest.

I’ve been known to come from church on a Sunday and then mow the lawn! Nothing in my faith (Catholic) to say I shouldn’t. Now if I were an Orthodox Jews and it was a Saturday........

Uugh, reminds me of the time our neighbours arranged for their gardener to come do the mowing and strimming - 7.30am on Bank Holiday Monday. WTF?

It was only for a short space of time so I don’t believe that you have anything to complain about. I, on the other hand, have had next door’s kids bouncing on their trampoline and looking into my garden for three days. Absolutely fuming. The parents don’t tell them off and the dad even did the same thing himself. There is no need for it as they could have put it at the other side of their garden next to an open field.

I work from home and it drives me crazy that nobody takes it seriously. Family expect me to drop everything to do other stuff and I could scream! The work I have has to be done, nobody else is going to do it. I am WORKING at home!! Rant over.

Bloody hell you'd hate my neighbours they are retired and can do their lawn any day of the week but choose to do it at weekends and around 7.30 in the morning! Not great when you've been working late shifts all week and look forward to a lie in

Fuzzy - he’ll do it twice in a season. Onc now and once later in July.

YABU

I can appreciate it's annoying but he does work. I've worked from home for over 15 years with my company and it still annoys me when people assume I've got all this free time. If anything I work more hours as I'm not commuting or chatting in an office. I have time to maybe bung a load of laundry on but certainly not time to cut my grass.