To think it's time to turn off the music

[TheLoneRager]

I live in a quiet country village.
Yesterday evening around 6pm I heard crackling and suddenly found myself in a shower of ash as I sat in the garden enjoying the cooler evening air. A neighbour out back had started a bonfire. I rushed to get my washing off the line, went upstairs to find the bedrooms filled with smoke. Shut the windows of the back rooms and came back out to speak to next door neighbours. Soon after we started hearing a pounding beat.

The people in the big house across the road are having a massive party. DH shut the windows and turned the fan on full blast to make up for the lack of ventilation. I said I couldn't sleep in a gale. He stomped off to DD's room (vacant as she doesn't live at home now) and set up the fan there, in between moaning that it's still smoky.

I am still listening to pounding noise at gone 3am. I've had the window open - very loud, shut - loud. Tried some ear plugs I found. Been down and made hot chocolate and eaten two digestive biscuits.

Wide awake and the party is still rocking!

I'm not a party pooper, it's not as if it happens every week but 3am??!

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I hope it’s stopped now. If not, I would go over there and ask them to switch it down or call the police. It’s far too late and I would have gone over hours ago so you are far more tolerant than me!

Or call the police.

You could also report them to the council, for anti social behaviour. No loud noise after 23:00 and 08:00.

I also suggest you mention the incident with the bonfire to your local council. As councils are under pressure to get their carbon emmissions down and your nieghbour has sent gobal carbon emmissions into oblivion.

My idiot nieghbours do the same so I have lots of fun reporting them anonymously haha!

Well it's now nearly 7am, time for you to blast out the Barry Manilow and nursery rhymes on repeat.....

I would have gone round.

I recommend Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" followed by "Baby Shark" on repeat outside their house from 8:01 this morning.

Love to read an OP without any exaggeration whatsoever.
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Just let it go, like you said they don’t do it a lot. We’ve had a crap summer of weather and this weekend is probably everyone’s last hoorah.

@Malbecfan this is hilarious 😂 I’m tempted to do this and no one has even had a party by me 😂

Bonfire neighbour and loud music neighbour are both anti-social fuckwits.

I don't understand the need for bonfires in built-up areas. Take your combustible shit to the tip, for fuck's sake. It's an especially shitty thing to do in a heatwave when people need to have their windows open.

Loud music likewise. The people whose house backs on to mine incurred the wrath of most of the neighbourhood a few weeks ago. They put a note through the door to say they were having a 40th birthday party, with music in the garden, but would move it indoors and turn it down at midnight.

They still had the music outside, quite loud, at 6am and it didn't go quiet until 11.00 that day. My NDN was so pissed off she mowed and strimmed her grass and did loads of other noisy work in the garden.

When ever we’ve had a party a couple of times a year )we’ve shut the music down at 11.00pm . Every time . No one has ever complained . Just common courtesy . Sorry you’ve had a noisy night .

Is it a regular occurrence or an every weekend thing? If the former YAB a tad U - everyone is entitled to the occasional party although it would have been polite to let you know.

I must have drifted off to sleep finally soon after posting with music still pounding. Woke up at 5 hot with window shut and when I opened the window all was quiet but it was pouring with rain. Maybe that put a stop to the partying.

Then DH came in at 8 and is in a grump with me because I moaned at him for waking me up. 🙄

Hey ho. I'm sure there won't be another such big party for a long time, it's a very quiet little backwater. Time to get on with my day.

OMG I was thinking exactly the same! 🤣🤣

YANBU. I don't know why people can't enjoy themselves without inflicting it on everyone else. I have neighbours who love a bonfire. Smoke in the house really gives DH the rage. I ring them at whatever time I go to bed and tell them it's still going and I want to open my windows ( they will deny it's still going even though I can see it! But will throw some water on it) so now they do it when we have a nice day and everyone's washing is out. Ash raining down on our patio and me panicking about trees catching on fire. We have green waste collection here so no excuse apart from not wanting to pay the £50 per year for that. But sometimes I think they burn plastic. Idiots.

With a bit of 'Baby Shark' thrown in for good measure!

Bonfires are shit

Omg..I can certainly sympathise with you on this one. The neighbours on one side of my house are friends with a middle aged woman who still goes out to night clubs and comes in at 3-4am most weekends in the summer. They frequently have conversations with one another by yelling out across the road. This can be at any time of day or night.
The neighbours have parties that go on until the early hours, and they have children in high school...
I try not to get involved with any of them as they're not particularly nice people..they smoke drugs and swear constantly, the police know about the drugs and they have been round several times but they don't seem to have put a stop to it.
I have caught them throwing rubbish into my back garden, empty bottles of alcohol and cans that have been used as a urinal...I get up early in the morning so I chuck it back to their property before they get up.
I'm disabled and have an old dog who has been with me for 18 years so it's not safe for him to be walking around among the kind of stuff they chuck over.
I have tried reporting them to the council to see if they could get them to stop or move out, but they're buying the property from the council so they won't issue any paperwork as they have no hold on them. They tell me to report it to the police as antisocial behaviour, which I have, the police come round and talk to them and that's all...
I can understand how you feel , but I don't know what to suggest as the best action to take..