What are your neighbours doing to annoy you this summer?

[AMumWithWiFi]

For the past two evenings, just as it's finally cooled down enough to open the windows, one neighbour has fired up a BBQ and another has lit a log fire.

I know people are entitled to enjoy their gardens, but the timing feels almost impressively irritating.

Anyway, rather than sitting here seething internally while my house slowly fills with eau de smoked sausage and bonfire, please tell me about your neighbours' most gloriously twattish habits.

The more petty and irrationally annoying, the better.

Help me feel less alone 😂

Same here.

Not agreeing to go half with the fence claiming it’s okay despite the posts being down to the wire. They park a camper van, a new van to ride their noisy bikes from and basically just existing next door. I want to move!!!

You’re annoyed because your neighbours are having a bbq?!!!

wtf get a life

I like my neighbours!!

Performance parenting. The mum always cooking or avoiding her really annoying kid, the dad constantly saying "ooooh wow" "good job" "amazing jumping / skipping / ball throwing" "let's pretend we are in the finals at Wimbledon" "let's play hide & seek" it's bloody constant, the kid is 10 and the first summer of this I was jealous of what a great hands on dad he is, now I feel like telling him to shut the fuck up and give his kid a PlayStation.

Some great tips and ideas here. Thanks everyone. 👍

Just being Alive really

theu shout abuse at me - but only when I’m alone
Are nasty to the elderly lady next soor
Park like shit
Reported my lovely neighbour for moving her fence 4cm (yes, cms!!!)
purposely poisons the fruit trees the estate planted
Let their dog bark at all house and shit in my front garden and on the green
Claim he needs walking stick but at night he can garden and mow and has been photographed unloading kitchens and up
on peoples roofs
Intimidates old ladies in the street my shouting and threatening them

Our neighbours are mostly brilliant, but one neighbour has a dog that barks a lot, and another manages to use his leaf blower when there are no leaves to blow.

To be fair, he has calmed down with it since the three years he's lived near us. The first year was shocking for leaf blowing.

Smoking weed and the smells wafting through my house

Welcome to the world.

Better to have some plant derived smells wafting about than filthy cars spewing their filth thanks.

Does it get you high? Just enjoy and chill.....

going around the circle….
neighbor one wind chimes/
huge fake hideous topiaries in pots
barking dogs. Every time you go outside.

neighbor two…every weekend is a family get together. 9 or so cars sometimes
more. Dogs and kids and constantly either calling the kids names or the dogs name. But they do wrap up very consistently 10 pm or so.
Both these neighbors have all kinds of accessory lighting. Put in 3 yrs ago. All solar you could land an airplane on their patios. One light just one shines right in my bedroom.
neighbor three…
swimming pool with (counted) 21 pieces of unmatched furniture. Black blue orange brown all different. Never do any yard work. DD are older now and they have their boyfriends over to swim. There is always a late night swim..midnight or so and one boy says fuck loudly many times. Always fuck this fuck that.

despite all this it’s a relatively quiet neighborhood during the week

Breathing
Only joking My neighbour is a pain in the arse all year around, she never makes noise, lives alone but she blood well stalks me and everyone else.
I don’t mind neighbours living their life, admittedly the noise of children is annoying at times but I’d have noisy children over nosey Parker next door any day.

Not a neighbour per se but there is a particular couple of people who walk their dogs through the area I live in. It'll be a lovely, peaceful afternoon and then their dogs will start barking like crazy and they seemingly do nothing to stop it as it goes on for ages and then this sets off other dogs that are out in the gardens of nearby houses, which seems to make the original dogs bark louder and so on....sonetimes for what seems like agee! don't know why but it just gets on my nerves so badly and makes me really quite irrationally cross!

His garden is terrible. Overgrown with buses and trees that go up to about 20 feet high.
Fence is uncared for and battered

He works but is also an alcholic.

He pee's in the garden every single night.

Our gardens are VERY close together and sometimes if i am in my conservatory, i can hear him peeing. Disgusting

Upstairs seems to spend her entire time wearing Doc Martens.

Upstairs to the left smokes endless weed.

Below us is a grumpy alcoholic but he does take my parcels in

Across the hall is a lovely Filipino family with two kids who we almost never hear but they use their balcony for some kind of traditional barbecue which produces SO MUCH SMOKE

Those damn home grown red buses

All the windows are open because, you know, it’s bloody hot. That one neighbour goes to work at about 3.45/4am. But not before he turns his performatively noisy car on idle on the drive and (I assume) fiddles with his playlists or google maps or goes through his emails or something for 4-5 minutes. By the time he finally p*sses off me and DH are flipping him off from the bed.

And then the baby wakes up 45 minutes later anyway and it’s game over.

overgrown buses are very hard to get rid of, you could try diluted vinegar though.

Oh I wanna join in but my neighbours are wonderfully decent and quiet. I live in a town with a bad reputation but honestly they’re all lovely. Just the odd murmur or trickling of a watering can.

@flatbuyingdilemma Oooo i'd love a rap battle to take place outside my house. Sadly not nuch chance of this, living in the Peak District 😂

Mandy, if it’s you, I’ve got your Amazon parcel 😄

I think you’ve missed the point of the thread.

To be fair, I wouldn’t mind if the guy at the end of our street was blasting a bit of Chopin. Instead we get shit dance/pop music from the 90s and 00s plus generally drunken renditions of these songs. He thinks he’s a DJ which makes it worse.

My vets weet, almost 100 yr old neighbour is now bed bound and has carers and family in 10+ times a day (may we all be sow ell tended in our later years) while my neighbours on the other side hate all noise. So my noise hating neighbours curtain twitch and moan about all the coming and going while my dog barks every time someone comes up the drive nextdoor because their only good parking option is outside my front window. So noise hating neighbours are finding my dog very annoying and honestly so am I. He's 11 though, my dog, and has a bit of dementia himself so has forgotten some of his training and isn't amenable to learning new things either. The whole things annoying but mostly I feel annoyed at my noise hating neighbours. I keep my blinds closed a lot to avoid it now

A rap battle. I’m actually crying 🤣

The same as they do every day from early spring to late autumn. They sit out in their garden with a radio playing from first thing AM to last thing PM. Not loud enough for me to enjoy what's playing (not that I particularly want to hear it). All I get is the base and muffled talking in between songs. They're 'new' neighbours of about 3 years and are two doors down. Before them was an elderly lady there who was quiet, and it was a pleasure to be able to sit in the garden and listen to the birds but now, once I've noticed the radio, I just can't block it out. One of these days I'll knock on the door and ask if they can turn it down just a little bit, but I hate confrontation, so I've avoided it thus far.