To think 2pm on a Sunday is an anti-social time to barbeque?

[BumpowderSneezeonAndSnot]

One of my sets of neighbours are an obnoxious couple in the early throes of retirement. They have children my age and grandchildren who are toddlers. This time of the year until October now they will be barbequeing almost daily and twice daily on a weekend with the kids and grandkids noisily "enjoying" The garden.

We work full time. The only time we can feasibly peg out washing is the weekends but with this good weather every weekend from 1pm 2pmish their barbeque is fired up and doesn't go off until dinner.

I freely admit I don't like them as it is but this just tips the balance. Do tell me I'm being unreasonable...ill just ignore you keep seething while they stink my washing out.

[woollyheart]

We had a few weeks one summer with no kitchen. So we ate from bbq once a day. Good job we are not your neighbours!

[ThenCameTheFools]

Have you logged it with 101?

Y'know, people having lunch at lunchtime? Must be something very awry.

What does their being in the "throes of early retirement" have to do with anything? (apart from the traditional Mumsnet ageism obvs?)

[AuntyJackiesBrothersSistersBoy]

People do want to enjoy the weather and frankly, in their own garden, they can do as they wish. If there’s a noise nuisance of some sort, you may have some comeback but, children playing noisily isn’t one, I don’t think.

[SevenStones]

They're the neighbours NO ONE wants. Loud, messy, music blaring, cars parked all over the place, a dog who seems to live in the garden and never shuts up, try and talk nicely with them and get sworn at... delightful specimens.

It's not really a 2pm BBQ that's the issue, really, is it?

I'd have problems with the above too, them having a BBQ seems the least of the problem.

[Aw12345]

YABU.

[Tomorrowillbeachicken]

Yikes. Yabu.

[AvengingGerbil]

Barbecues are an abomination. Always.

(But I know I am in a minority, and have to put up with it.)

[tomhazard]

Huh?! Surely 2pm on a Sunday is the perfect BBQ time. I think the BBQ is a side issue here...

[Lovelydovey]

I’m with you - my neighbours opposite are currently burning garden waste. My half dry washing is now in and all the windows shut on what is one of the hottest days of the year. Harrumph.

[ThenCameTheFools]

Gerbil- I loathe them. Why would I want to eat my dinner standing up off a paper plate, when in 10 paces I have, you know, chairs, and tables, and shit like that!

OP is still BU though.

[Lizzie48]

I think that if you'd posted about the other issues you've mentioned, ie the dog in the garden, the car parking, you'd have got a different response on here. I can't understand why you focused on the bbqs, it sounds like it was the last straw rather than the actual problem.

[BreconBeBuggered]

Yes, of course YABU, but my heart sank at the whiff of barbecued meat wafting through my windows at 2pm, so I know where you're coming from. My neighbours aren't more than averagely anti-social but they have a lot of noisy machines in their back garden, and firing up the stinky barbecue sometimes nudges at the edges of my neighbourly tolerance. But it's totally my issue. Why should they give the tiniest fuck?

[welshmist]

I am surrounded by elderly pensioners, I can hear lawn mowers, strimmers, going I do wonder why when they have seven days a week now, they still wash cars, mow lawns on a Sunday still.

[Skyejuly]

Yabu

[MiggeldyHiggins]

I loathe them. Why would I want to eat my dinner standing up off a paper plate, when in 10 paces I have, you know, chairs, and tables, and shit like that!

I don't know what kind of weird bbq's you have, but we have outdoor tables and chairs, and actual plates.

[Banana8080]

You’re being totally unreasonable...

[BlondeB83]

YABU, hang the washing out earlier.

[dementedma]

i really don't get the love of BBQs. Pain the arse lugging all the stuff out and then in again. And mostly the food is crap anyway

[Littletreefrog]

I think 2pm on a Sunday was literally made for barbequing so yabu

[lazyarse123]

Yanbu i also hate lunch time bbqs. Why do they need to do it both weekend days? It's not always possible to put washing out during the week if you work full time. Then there's having to close Windows so that curtains and bedding doesn't stink.

[extinctspecies]

We turn off the Aga during the summer.

So we use our BBQ to cook almost every day.

Lucky we don't love next to you, eh, OP?

[KurriKurri]

I live in a terrace people have BBQ's all the time, one of my neighbours husband get over excited and barks like a dog at the sausages. He also sing country and western hits very loudly and tunelessly.

I kind of like it

They never start until after lunch, so plenty of time for me to put my washing out. My dog likes to go out in the garden and savour the meaty aroma, other people's BBQ's make him very happy.

[walnutwood]

Can't you do your washing in the evening after work? It's light until 10pm

[strayducks18]

I knew there would a thread about BBQ's and washing today!

YABU. Put washing out early it will be easily dry by noon.

[BarefootMe]

I never hang any washing out, and cannot understand the general enthusiasm for doing so. I have a spin drier with a high spin speed, so things come out damp rather than wet. I just hang them up on a rack for a few hours - saves a lot of ironing too.