to think next door neighbour should stop cutting grass if we are having a BBQ

[RTKangaMummy]

?

{btw this isn't our neighbours I am just wondering after talking to friends}

Not a BBQ party but with 2 freinds over for BBQ

?

[Iota]

totally unreasonable IMHO

[BreevandercampLGJ]

His garden, his grass.

He probably has a list the length of his arm of jobs that need doing now that spring is here.

He probably only has the weekend like the rest of us.

[lucykate]

cutting grass wouldn't bother me, it's people who light their bbq's when my washing is still on the line that get on my nerves

[zippitippitoes]

lolol

that is funny

er are u kidding

[cheshirekitty]

YABU. What if he/she started a thread, Am I being unreasonable to think neighbour should stop his/her bbq when I am cutting the grass.

Grow up. His lawn, his time, his garden.

[Iota]

my neighbours should stop having BBQs because they fill my house up with acrid smoke

[BreevandercampLGJ]

It is not Kanga that is thinking this, she is just floating the idea on the back of a conversation with a friend.

So put your pitchforks away.

[zippitippitoes]

my neighbour had a bonfire last week he has a yard the sizer of a small bathroom it filled my house with smoke he was burning stuff from the house

[Iota]

pitchforks? or BBQ tongs?

[cheshirekitty]

spare ribs at dawn!!!

[BreevandercampLGJ]

Iota

Both.

[Iota]

my neighbours have been BBQing for years - always with the thichk smoke - you'd have thought that they'd have mastered the art by now

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

YABU

Its forcast rain tomorrow and next week so this is maybe the only chance he has to do it for a while.

[nell12]

My neighbour (aka the grumpy old git) has been in all day playing violent computer games at top volume, not a pleasant thing for ds to overhear when playing in the garden.
DH mowed the lawn at about 2pm

Grumpy git of a neighbour mowed his lawn at 6 15 this evening whilst we were sat in the garden eating supper (Curry, not BBQ )



IMHO YANBU, there are unwritten rules of common courtesy

[FruitfulOfFruit]

So if I'm wanting to light my bbq, and the neighbour has her washing out - should I nip next door and give her half-an-hours' warning so she can get the washing in? Even though it won't be dry? Or do I tell my kids/guests that we aren't having a BBQ after all? Just wondering ...

[rey]

IMO cutting your grass is not unreasonable no matter what next door are doing unless it's an unearthly hour eg 6am

I love BBQ food but don't like the smell from garden BBQs like someone said when you have washing out it's even worse.

[zippitippitoes]

so you come home from work and plan to mowe the lawn but you see neighb ours in their garden and think no i shall do that another day lol

and what if you have like 4 lots of neighbours

[nickytwotimes]

God, wish I had neighbours who bothered to cut their grass.
It is totally unreasonable for someone to be expected not to cut grass because someone's having a bbq. Now, there's a sentence I never thought I'd write!

[RTKangaMummy]

No, my friend of friend's DH was cutting the grass and then their neighbour had a BBQ with another couple

And we were discussing if the DH should have stopped cutting the grass while the neighbours had BBQ.

Or if it is annoying to have someone cutting the grass while having BBQ or whether having BBQ is annoying {smoke and smells etc}

[Iota]

surely cutting the grass doesn't take that long?, unless you have a huge garden, in which case the mower wouldn't be close up for long anyway.

[nickytwotimes]

Well. RT, your friend's DH sounds very considerate. Would they like to move next door to us?!

[RTKangaMummy]

[RTKangaMummy]

Thanks for the replies

I think it took him about 1.5 hours so basically you guys would prefer a neighbour who cuts the grass than has BBQs

So noise from lawn cutting is better than smell and smoke from BBQ



And his garden so he can do as he likes {within reason}

[Iota]

1.5 hours

was he using nail scissors?

[Remotew]

So can you have a BBQ without much smoke? I didnt realise this.

Perhaps next time you can forewarn that you are having the barbie and are checking that they wont have washing on the line. He may then think to mow the lawn before hand. Saying this I'm in cloud cuckoo land tonight.