The noise of summer

[Dontbringthenoise]

With apologies to Don Healy for the title.

The clocks have changed, it's stopped raining and now it seems my neighbours' children on both sides seem to spend all afternoon and now into the evening bouncing on the trampolines they have taking over their garden or kicking footballs or throwing netballs or maybe a basketball all over the place. One side the parents were mowing the lawn at about 10 am and then the other side at 11am. Then the kids must have come out after their lunch and it's been non stop child noise. This is how every weekend is be isn't it now, until autumn. I don't understand why neighbours A and B can't at least agree to coordinate the time they mow their lawns so I get some break from it all. The noise just goes on and on and probably will until about 8pm this week getting longer and longer as the days get longer. This is just the start and I'm already fed up. May they will no doubt be out there even later if they have bbqs like they did last year. They seem to have coal ones so not only do I smell the meat but also the horrible stink of the coal and smoke too

Would I be unreasonable to ask them to bring their children in about 6pm so I can at least have some peace in the evening and to mow their lawns during the week so I can enjoy my weekends without the horrible noise of a lawn mower? I won't say anything about their BBQs until it actually happens as I don't want to give them ideas.

Oh dear op. I can’t decide whether to roll my eyes, laugh or feel pity for you. Especially your pompous hyacinth bucket 5 hours is quite enough for children and your rather bemusing noise of summer track.

im sorry to tell you but kids are allowed to play in their gardens as long as their parents let them, and yes that will often be as long as its light. They can also mow their lawns as they please.

I think I will settle on pity, you sound so uptight , pompous and miserable. And that does not make for a happy person. I’m fairly sure if it wasn’t this, you’d have something else to whinge about.

Dogs are not the same as children for fuck’s sake. So ridiculous. You bought a house next to a family home with a garden so the human beings who live there will make use of it - as is their right.

You chose to live there
dont like noise then Move - simples

I quite like the noise (and grass smell) of lawnmowers.

You’d love our ndn, OP. he’ll happily spend an entire day mowing, leaf-blowing and jet washing, all whilst shouting into his mobile. He loves a bit of noise.

Maybe they are working during the week, assuming they also have large detached houses that they need to pay for 🤭

I don’t mind a bit of summer noise but if I want a quiet relax in my garden I put on my headphones and listen to a podcast or audiobook. I also use earplugs too if it’s especially loud. x

I don't understand why neighbours A and B can't at least agree to coordinate the time they mow their lawns

😂😂😂

Wow only March, clocks just barely changed and there's a kids on trampolines post already.

Personally if I couldnt stand hearing children I'd be in a detached house quite far from neighbours. Or utilise headphones. Not acting as if I'm life's main character and everybody else must shhhh at my behest. Problem solved.

What time do you mow your lawn? I bet you're getting right on somebody's last nerve too😁

You're being so very unreasonable, there's no way I can believe this post is real.

Op. You are in for a long hard summer if you can't bear the noise of kids playing in their large gardens and people moving their lawns.

Many people with kids but houses with large gardens so their kids can play out in them. - all summer long

No you can't expect your direct neighbours to go door to door and agree on the exact same time to cut their lawn so as not to disturb you as opposed to what suits them personally.

You can ask of course but they'll say no and just call you crazy dog lady behind your back. You've nothing to gain here.
It was mental buying a house in a family area if you want peace and quiet in the evenings. Never ever going to happen!

And obviously neighbours d would have to agree too so not to disturb neighbour c and of course neighbour f.....

I pay a lot for the man to come and mow it during the week when I am out at work

which I’m sure delights everyone working from home.

You’re probably not going to get the best response on a parent’s site tbf

Could you wear ear defenders or listen to music\ podcasts on ear phones? There are some types of earplugs that go inside the year and don't block out everything so you can still hear what you need to.

I sympathise as I have misophonia and normal noise can be horrible for me but unfortunately normal living sounds are not unreasonable and people need to live their lives so it's necessary to manage it.

I paid a lot of money for this house because it is detached and has a large garden.

Boo-fucking-hoo.

Yes constant noise is annoying. But YABVU wanting others to plan THEIR time in THEIR gardens around you.

If you want peace and quiet, move to a house with no neighbours.

Can you see that you are in the minority here OP? Not many on here are saying it's not annoying, but most are saying that people who have neighbours just accept it as a factor of where you choose to live.

You arranging to have your lawn cut whilst you are out at work so it doesn't bother you must be really annoying for others. Try and see it from both sides and it may bother you less. The only person suffering from this is you.

If not then as some others have said - you can't control others' behaviour when you have neighbours. What they do is entirely up to them. How much you choose to accept it or let it bother you is up to you.

If it bothered me that much I would move somewhere more isolated. If an Easter egg hunt bothered you so much that it's still on your mind a year later would suggest there is more to this than just the noise.

I live in a row of terraced houses and lots of them have kids. It's annoying sone days but I always remind myself that it's my choice to live here. Building work/ extensions/ loft conversions make way more noise and have annoyed me more. I also love ten doors down from a primary school who seem to spend their entire days outside. The noise also bothers me but I just accept it as I live here the school didn't exist when I moved here - which had taken more acceptance too)

The only thing you have written that I think might be fair enough is this part

Would it be unreasonable to ask them to move their trampolines further down the lawn away from my patio to reduce the noise.

But asked in a diplomatic way. Everything else YABU

How do you know it was cheap chocolate? Why are you on a parent's forum?

Keep the posts coming OP, I’m having a great laugh on this thread.

I bet you stick knives in balls, too.

Oh my GOD! People are using their gardens at perfectly normal times of the day. Call the cops!

Having an enormous expanse of grass which you just mow is a terrible use of land. If instead you planted an orchard, a hedge maze, a network of interconnected garden rooms or really anything else except astroturf, you'd do so much more for nature and the sound wouldn't carry and bounce over flat, featureless grass and annoy you. Vegetation is an incredibly good sound deadener. Plus you'd have the sound of bumblebees and birds to distract you (unless you'd find THAT annoying too??)

AND you wouldn't have to make loud inconsiderate mowing sounds during the working week when you have conveniently gone out.

I love the sound of everyone outside in the summer. It's so much more cheerful than the silence of winter. I don't even mind people playing music (as long as it isn't thudding dance crap). You sound a bit miserable op.

I don't have children and never wanted them - but I used to love hearing the kids who lived behind me out in the garden until all hours. That's what kids should be doing.

As for the lawns, assuming you live in the UK, how big are these lawns? Lawns here are generally a lot larger, and once again I couldn't care less what time they are mowed.

This thread is a perfect example of why we left the UK. It's literally the last day in March (sorry, 1st day in April in UK) and people are moaning that the kids are playing outside already. No thanks

Your point is absolutely batshit.

If you don’t like the fact that your neighbours have children and that they mow their lawn, then move. Move away to a property that has no neighbours in close vicinity.

You cannot police what your neighbours do and what time their children go inside. You sound horrible.