In garden chatting early. Aibu

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Me and DH were sat in the garden at about 6.30am this morning chatting over a coffee. I don't think we were particularly loud - we weren't arguing or anything, just chatting. A neighbour looked out the window at us and DH got worried we were being annoying and made us go inside.
I feel like it's not often you can sit outside and have a coffee first thing because it's never usually warm enough. In fact this is the first time we've done it all year (and we were just chatting). But then it WAS 6.30am. thoughts please. Were we unreasonable given the time?
If it makes a difference we live on a reasonably main road. So there's always way more noise at the front.

Weirdly I think it would annoy me if your chatting woke me up at 6.30 but at 7 I'd be perfectly ok with it.

I am always annoyed if I wake up or am woken up before 7am when I don't need to be.

I'm also enjoying having my breakfast in the garden during this hot weather but not before 8 usually.

Too early really, especially as windows would be open and people won't have slept well anyway

How small are your houses and gardens that this is a problem? I live in a scummy ex council estate of tiny houses and gardens, I'm just glad when the boy racers aren't tearing around the roads.

A weekday, I'd say ok. Weekend morning I think yabu.

That would grind my gears. No point going in the house- damage has been done. I was up early working in conservatory this morning. Fired my laptop up in living room to not disturb neighbours to then later hear then shouting in garden at 7.20. No consideration. My ex used to talk loudly. He was used to living in the middle of nowhere with no visible neighbours. We have to take other people into consideration when we live in such close proximity to each other

My husband is a naturally early riser (5.45am), me not so much. He likes to put the radio on and have a coffee out on our deck in the morning, he may even get in the hot tub if he is so inclined, all before i am awake, no one has even complained. It's your garden, do whatever the hell you like. We get on well with our neighbours, always say hello and have chat over the fence, let her use my washing machine when hers broke and she came and joined us for a glass of wine on our deck one evening. Being a good neighbour is important but they shouldn't stop you form enjoying your own space on your own time. We spend a lot of time outside in the summer and would hate think i had to go inside to avoid annoying my neighbours.

Of course it’s early ffs its a Saturday morning

This. Just because people get up early through the week, doesn't mean they don't want to have a lie in on a Saturday morning. 6.30 is way too early.

My neighbour was up banging around his van at 5.30am on a Saturday morning.
I certainly had some evil thoughts.
Not before nine on a Saturday is my rule.

YABU. It's hot, people are sleeping with the windows open. Even quiet chatting just outside would wake me at that time in the morning.

Just sit quietly and whisper at that hour on a weekend, no taking in loud voices, then you’ll be fine. Or go outside and sit on your own for a bit

Totally unreasonable to make noise likely to wake your neighbours at 6.30am. I’m a terrible sleeper and wouldn’t be happy to be woken at that time.

baseline is if neighbours can hear it, its 6.30am and not an emergency its too loud too early

My neighbours have a bar and a , hot tub and will often have music on until early hours, their adult children play guitars, sometimes until 4am , very annoying but we don’t complain , saving grace it is only weekends , yes me and husband will sit in the garden at 6 am and chat quietly, I am tempted to play music but of course I wouldn’t husband waits until 10am to cut lawns , this is life living with neighbours

Way, way, WAY too early, i’d have been fuming. I’d say 8am is the earliest for outdoor noise at a weekend. So selfish.

I totally agree with this.

I personally wouldn't mind at all, I find normal life sounds quite soothing.
My next door neighbour had loud sex several times this morning (I was impress by the stamina but it's another subject) and even that, I didn't mind.

But it's also true that voices travel and not everyone can sleep through a conversation.
Anyway, you came back inside so no drama here.

6.30!? Yabu.

Would you start lawn mowing at 6.30 ?
My guess is not, because it would wake neighbours
I see talking noise the same way - if it’s loud enough to wake others up it’s too loud

Of course YWBU. Mainly though I think it’s weird to want to chat to your husband at 6.30 am. On the rare occasions me and him indoors are up that early at the same time we grunt, drink coffee in silence and ignore each other like normal people.

Quiet chat is fine.

Not that early? Of course it is. Especially on a weekend.

Go outside with coffee and OH any time you like but whisper if it's an anti-social hour - perhaps anything before 7.30 at a weekend?

Voices travel further than many people realise, and in this hot weather many people will have their windows open at night. I had the opposite problem of neighbours sitting outside late at night chatting. From their perspective, they were just having a quiet chat. And they were. But I could hear every word, they may as well have been sitting on the end of my bed!

I think it's too early. My neighbours had their gardeners there at 8.30 this morning with leaf blowers on full blast. I was up anyway today but I find that a bit selfish and unreasonable on a Saturday morning. Legally they can do it but it is very inconsiderate in weather like this when everyone is sleeping with windows open.