The clapping, please make it stop.

[orangejuicer]

Is it just every week we are in lockdown or is that it forever and we have become a nation of clappers? Do I need to move?

Tell me about it!!! Driving me mad!

Fireworks here.

It’s not just the clapping it’s the banging of pots and pans. And the fireworks.

Oh god YES. Please just be quiet and donate some money if you want to help.

It's so easy to not stay inside and not join in if you don't want to.

Banging pans, blowing horns and playing You’ll Never Walk Alone in my street tonight

I agree. I’m desperately trying to get 3yo dd to settle after a horrendous day and then all hell breaks loose outside. I am hugely grateful for what the nhs are doing and I feel awful for being a miseryguts but can’t we do it at a more sociable time for the little ones!!

*stay inside, not 'not stay inside'!

I have seen it on the news etc. but I live 2 miles from the nearest small village so don't actually see it in real life. If I stand at my door, I can just about hear noise from the village (cheering etc.).

It's a nice gesture in a way. I personally find anything like that quite cringey-no idea why

At least your tone deaf neighbour hasnt decided to do an outdoor concert outside her front door...

Fireworks and Jerusalem here 🤷‍♀️🤯

Fireworks here too. It’s not even dark

Absolutely nothing here!

It’s not just the clapping it’s the banging of pots and pans. And the fireworks.

Exactly the same on my street. I think the clapping was a lovely gesture, but now it's morphed into who can make the loudest noise.

Beaver on a warm night with windows open and trying to put a child to bes. Yeah I'm the unreasonable one.

Completely peaceful here.

Not one person has ever come out and clapped.

Is it just every week? It's every night here, (in Canada, at least in my neighbourhood) since last Friday.

Every night in Spain, my uncle posts a video on FB every night so we all get the benefit 🤬

I love it

My neighbour I was banging a saucepan lid right by my open window and making loud pointed comments about how “ they thought more people would be out”. I’m a fucking nurse- keep your claps, support your NHS all the time not just during a crisis. Probably sounds cynical but hey.

Don't think my street did it tonight. I'm sat in my bedroom, which is at the front of the house and j didn't hear anything. Hopefully it'll start filtering through now and will ease off. You will always get some who live to virtue signal though.

What was it for tonight? Nhs again? Here we have only had it the first two nhs ones, I don’t think anyone did the Boris one or the children one. We didn’t do any but I could hear the racket tonight.

The thing that's most irritating me (other than noise at kiddie bedtime) is that it is so fucking pointless. What is it achieving? What is better after a load of random noise than before? Nothing!!

I’m not a fan and it’s just woken me up from a nap! But if they want to do it and they feel it’s important to them, what am I to care....too busy trying to extend my nap.

Live and let live

I have no issue with it as such but who suggested 8pm would be the best time!?
Teething, non sleeping baby here 😩