To expect our new neighbours not to use a petrol plower to plow their garden when they know we've got a 20mo who goes to bed early?!

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They're driving us mad! Since they moved in they have mates round every weekend play banging music and shout in the back garden(dd bedroom at back)now there out there bloody plowing! Its a row of tiny terrace houses by the way!

Ah right, well surely then if they have dug up all the grass, then they are ploughing to replant more. So its not exactly going to be a regular occurrence! Did you expect them to plough by hand?

Its a one off, it annoyed you but it won't happen again, so don't let it affect your relationship with your otherwise friendly neighbours.

Sorry, I also think YABU

My neighbours used to be incredibly noisy - we're talking playing the electric guitar into the small hours, turning the volume right up to 11, partying in the garden where we could hear their every word until 3 or 4am... We never complained figuring that it wasn't worth falling out with them over it.

However this all changed dramatically when they had a baby and they now expect us and everyone else who lives nearby to have the utmost respect for the sleep patterns of their PFB. We have now received some not very polite requests from them to a) not put on the Today programme in the mornings (?!) b) not come in too late as they can hear our front door closing and c) not use our washing machine past 10pm.

I am planning on smiling sweetly and continuing as we have always done - their choice to have a baby, and I don't think that we have been in any way antisocial. I am pg myself now so it's not as though we are throwing loud parties every night! and I REALLY hope I don't become so precious myself once our PFB arrives.

Plowing the garden at 7.30pm is totally reasonable esp now the evenings are longer - a lot of people (me included) don't get home til around 7pm anyway.