Moved into our house about 6 months ago.
It’s a “naice” area if that makes any difference.
Anyway, the houses are detached and neighbours on 1 side are retired and in their early 60s by the look of it.
I’m not sure if they have alcohol problems (particularly the man) but when we put our recycling boxes out weekly theirs contains at least 50 cans of lager, 10 or so bottles of wine and a couple of bottles of spirits. I’ve not been nosing honestly, but they have 2 recycling boxes purely filled with empties.
When you look out of the window from 9am onwards they’ll be sat with cans and also from 4pm onwards they sit out the front still drinking.
Anyway not sure how relevant that is.
So the problem is that they play music in their garden from 9am until 10pm. Again, it’s not massively loud so although annoying as we don’t get any peace and quiet I’ve just let it slide. A couple of times a week he gets very drunk and sings karaoke style, but hey ho.
Also they have a couple of little dogs that he’s started to goad when we are out in the garden, so he’ll drunkenly shout “more noise Rusty, more noise” and wind them up to purposely bark for 30/40 mins solid.
If our dog goes out in the garden then he will do a solitary bark back at the dogs but I immediately stop him. The man then goads his dog again “you fucking tell them Rusty” etc.
He’s started to comment on our kids too, who play nicely, but are preschoolers and do giggle and run around. He’s started saying “I can fucking hear them giggling again” etc etc.
And when my toddler falls over and cries he’ll shout “he’s always fucking tripping up and crying that kid”
I now try and take them inside as soon as they cry or whinge as I’m worried about annoying the neighbours.
But I don’t know how to deal with this?
Keep a log? Or just ignore it?
It seems to get worse and louder the more he drinks.
Plus he tends to start on the wife then screaming “I told you to leave that fucking door open” etc.
Advice please?