Street party noise vs non-sleeping child

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1 year old struggling to sleep. Street party music and excitable shouting is very loud.

Am I being a massive fucking grump here?

(So I don’t drip-feed... he never struggles to sleep, it’s also combatted by the fact he’s not in a sleeping bag because his room is mega hot and I can’t open the windows because of the noise)

Still going on here on my street too, absolutely no social distancing going on. How on earth is this lockdown?

Still going on here on my street too, absolutely no social distancing going on.

Exacrly the same here. No thought to any harm they could be causing. People are right that lockdown has been miserable so far but today has been unbearable and I wasn't allowed to leave despite noise in my home for over fourtwen hours straight. People don't seem to care that we'll be locked down longer when they cause more transmission of the virus, and more will actually die.

Luckily for you he'll be 25 next time

@crustycrab I'm guessing you mean 30, so are rude and wrong.

Fucking mumsnet. Every time.

@Mcvitoes how will a 1 year old be 30 on the centenary of VE Day? I'm not rude! You are very wrong though. And quite unnecessarily abrupt

You're right that I'm wrong. Just read the post about officially turning five and assumed it linked to that.

But a 1 year old will still be older than 25 in 25 years time...

And it doesn't help parents of young children struggling now to sarcastically talk about things being okay in another 25 years.

Yabvu and precious.

I say that as a parent of a child with additional needs who never slept.

Its a one off. People commemorating lost loved ones and an enormous historical event. During another enormous event. Get some perspective fgs.

Loosen up. Even my normally mouse quiet neighbours are having a boogie. Excellent.

WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A LOCKDOWN.

what's wrong with you dickheads. Honestly.

It's not that enormous. I've managed my entire long life without having to celebrate with a bullshit street party that pisses off half the neighbours

@SomeHalfHumanCreatureThing

Celebrating the end of a war, which is still in living memory, which claimed 85 million lives globally, of which 50-65 million were civilians, is not an enormous event? And the near total lockdown of a third of the world's entire population is also not an enormous event?

Also, I know very well we're in lockdown. Obviously. But I have to stay miserable and bored and quiet the whole time I'll go nuts. I'm being considerate, but you know what, I had a boogie, I played music, I chatted loudly in the garden, this time. Don't pee on everyone else's chips.

Crikey, it hits midnight and the assholes seem to come out don’t they.

I think everyone who is saying “we are in a pandemic, everyone needs to let their hair down” is forgetting that the pandemic is making it worse. If it wasn’t for this pandemic, my (usually very considerate) neighbours would have moved into someone’s back garden instead of sitting outside my sons bedroom window under the pretence of social distancing. And if it wasn’t for the pandemic, I would have had options today when dealing with an overtired child.

Lockdown means we are all stuck at home and I think it’s awful that so many PP are having that situation made worse by inconsiderate neighbours.

No one is suggesting that folk shouldn’t salute their heroes or remember the sacrifice. Why do those celebrations get to impede on so many others lives? Is there an official list of reasons my neighbours can keep my son awake?

The people telling me I was being grumpy earlier in the evening appeared to be able to do so in a polite fashion. The people coming out after midnight appeared be just plain rude.

I would suggest those after midnight were maybe some of the ones some of us were complaining about? It's my life and I can get pissed loudly in my garden and play music until 2am because lockdown is hard and fuck you if you don't agree?