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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

To be frustrated about my "early bird" neighbour?

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BeHappyAndSmile · 08/08/2020 08:30

So every day during the week I get woken up at 6am by them doing some loud clean up of the garden, including launching glass bottles into the recycling and slamming about (I usually get up for work at 7 so it's only an hour and I don't moan about that to anyone but my partner haha). Now today they decided to cut the grass at half 7 in the morning! I just want a little bit of a lie in, I'm 30 weeks pregnant and my sleep is atrocious through the night now, it my day off....and now no lie in. So aibu?

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switswoo81 · 08/08/2020 08:32

Yanbu that's way too early especially on a Saturday morning.

GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman · 08/08/2020 08:34

We get up early (6.45 on Saturdays) but that is ridiculous and thoughtless. I'd have a gentle word.

elstree2020 · 08/08/2020 08:34

Grass could be cut in the evening. YANBU.

viques · 08/08/2020 08:36

Yes. It's baking hot during the day, so much more sensible to get up early while it's cool and pleasant, potter about a bit. Even mow the grass. Then go and have a siesta after lunch when the heat gets too much. It's what sensible people in hot countries do and it makes life much more pleasant.

Stay cool, chill, enjoy the rest of your day.

majesticallyawkward · 08/08/2020 08:37

YANBU, are you friendly enough to drop into conversation about leaving the mowing/loud activities until later on a weekend?

I'm very aware that we are the early bird neighbours, not by choice but my DC are up with the sun! And I'm very aware of noise levels before 8 or 9am. I don't hoover before then never mind mowing the lawns!

Drumple · 08/08/2020 08:37

Before 8am at the weekend is unreasonable.

FeelLiedTo · 08/08/2020 08:37

Between 7 and 11 they can do what they want

FizzyPink · 08/08/2020 08:37

I’d definitely go and have a word with them about it, they may not realise.

My DP goes to work very early in the mornings including weekends and I heard the neighbours above us moaning to our next door neighbours about how him slamming the door is really annoying. I don’t think it’s that loud as I never hear it but he’s now making an effort to be quieter. I’d much rather she’d come and told us about it rather than broadcasting how annoying we are around the flats!

ThePluckOfTheCoward · 08/08/2020 08:38

That is way to early to be cutting the grass, totally anti social especially on a weekend. I'd be having a quiet word, or shout out of the window ""shut the fuck up", whichever is most appropriate.

hellofromcornwall · 08/08/2020 08:39

Yeah that’s quite early for that kind of shenanigans. Could you live and let live on this one?

Do they have neighbours on the other side?

Most neighbourly complaints are of loud music, revving engines, shouting, slamming doors, constant DIY.

I’m wondering if you could live and let live until the baby is born. And then maybe when the baby is here and the noise is still annoying you could say

“Hello lovely neighbour. Your bottle tidying & early mowing is scaring the baby awake - could you give it another hour before starting?”

Or something along those lines

fromcitytocountry · 08/08/2020 08:40

YANBU I used to have a neighbour who would get his leaf blower out every Saturday morning before 8am. What pissed me off even more was that he just blew all the leaves back onto the paths that everyone walked on, leaving just his garden clean and tidy. He never cleared it up.

Eventually I asked him if could hold off until a later hour and with a bit of huffing and puffing about it he did.

Worth asking, especially if pregnant

JazzaGal · 08/08/2020 08:40

I wouldn't cut the grass until after 10 am at the weekend. 7:30 is way too early.

toomanyplants · 08/08/2020 08:42

Cutting the grass at 7.30 in the morning is a giant pisstake!
Especially of a weekend!

AuntieDolly · 08/08/2020 08:43

Perhaps the grass is just today as it's going to be so hot.

NotEverythingIsBlackandWhite · 08/08/2020 08:46

Whether I get up early or not at the weekend, I would leave it until 9 a.m. to do something noisy like mow the grass.

Worth asking, especially if pregnant
I fail to see what pregnancy has to do with it. It's too early for everyone.

Mamette · 08/08/2020 08:47

At least you won’t have to worry about disturbing them when the baby is waking early

Mummyoflittledragon · 08/08/2020 08:49

They sound very unaware. I would try to tackle gently.

vanillandhoney · 08/08/2020 08:50

Normally I would say they're being unreasonable but the weather is due to be pretty hot today so maybe they're just trying to get everything done early?

I'd much rather be cutting the grass now than in the evening when it always tends to be ridiculously warm and sticky and unpleasant.

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BeHappyAndSmile · 08/08/2020 08:51

We've not lived here very long whereas they've been in that house for years so I don't want to go making a fuss and getting a name for myself haha. Also with baby coming soon I figured they'd probably get annoyed with the crying etc so I'd feel a bit hypocritical complaining to them. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't being a moaning Minnie 😂

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pictish · 08/08/2020 08:52

No it’s pretty rude to get lawnmower out before 9 at the weekend I’d say.

pictish · 08/08/2020 08:53

Not that it’s a rule or anything. I just wouldn’t dream of starting up the lawnmower before then...and probably later. 10ish.

SteelyPanther · 08/08/2020 08:53

Neighbours are a real pain.
Mine dumped, what sounded like, a bucket full of bottles into the recycling bin at 10.30pm two nights ago. Two of us were in bed asleep as we were getting up for work next day.
These same neighbours drag the bins out at 6.30am on bin day, even though everyone else manages to put their bins out the day before.
Totally selfish.

Newwayofthinking · 08/08/2020 08:56

@FeelLiedTo

Between 7 and 11 they can do what they want

They can do what ever they want, whenever they want.....doesn't make it right, kind or fair.

They are inconsiderate, could you have a word about, not getting enough sleep due to be pregnant?

However in a few weeks you will get your own back with a crying baby at all hours

JeSuisPoulet · 08/08/2020 09:00

YANBU OP. We have newish neighbours who seem to have at least 2 of their older children living with them, one of whom is married with 2 small children (baby and toddler). Every night at least one of them is up at 1am turning lights on that shine into my room and opening and closing their utility room door to walk to their bins (which has a lock on built in wooden hut so extra time/noise to open and close). Then between 6/7am the baby wakes and always screams, which for some reason prompts them into taking it outside for a tour or the entire garden and down the side passage to the front of their house and back several times. So we all get a surround sound effect of a siren. Sometimes two adults will be with it and they loudly coo and laugh to try to stop it crying for ages - really loud odd noises. It just feels like there are far too many people in that house who don't seem to realise they live in a road full of other families!

LaurieFairyCake · 08/08/2020 09:05

It's normally unreasonable but with the heat of this weekend and rain expected late tomorrow then it's reasonable

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