...about my neighbour mowing?

[qwertygurl]

My neighbour is mowing his lawns. It is 8pm at night and I am trying to put my two toddlers to bed. It is keeping them awake and driving me crazy!!

I do see hs side of it, that he works full time and he needs to mow his lawn (although he did it just last weekend!!) and he may have somehing on the weekend to do that would prevent him doing it at a more sociable hour...

BUT!!

It is ight next to my boys window (he knows which room they sleep in) and it is bedtime (we have discussed on previous ocaisions their routine) and even if he didnt know, he DOES know we have two small toddlers and would therefore know that around this time or earlier that they would be sleeping/going to bed. They are two and three.

So - do i say something? Or do I let him go and mention it next time I see him? Subtly dropping hints about how it kept them awake? Or do I let it go completely?

Grr. I know it is petty, but it is driving me up the wall!!

let it go. Unless he has several acres it doesn't take long.

let it go , it's dark by 8.30pm so won't be for much longer

You need to let it go. Your boys will probably find it harder to get to sleep in the summer due to longer daytime hours.

It's only 8pm. That's toddler bedtime for for adults in summer it's do stuff you can't do during the day time. He isn't doing it to spite you, and the toddlers will sleep through it anyway. The world doesn't revolve around their sleep patterns, he may well know you have young children but wouldn't have given their bedtime a thought.

Lawns grow. They need mowing repeatedly.

Fair enough - I thought I was being unreasonably grumpy!! It has been a long day! I think I need to get them to sleep and then sit down with a glass of wine... and then jump DH when he gets in from the pub!!

He isn't going to do it every night forget it

My neighbour does this! But I dont feel justified in moaning as I'm sure my two are out playing the garden before she wakes up at the weekend...

I totally get it, last summer I thought the farm across the road was getting their maize harvest in just to spite me. Ds won't go to bed until 9pm at the mo (he's 2 [bad mother emoticon] so I sympathise completly.

Have the wine now.

My neighbours are similar.

But I let it go... because DS wakes up at 5.30am most days and runs around the house shrieking with glee.

I am expecting them to complain to ME soon.

There are worse times.

Our neighbour has the loudest lawn mower in the world (no really he does!!) and is obsessed with his lawn. If we decide to eat outside for a BBQ or we have guests and sit out in the garden you can nearly guarantee he will decide it is time to mow the lawn. Then all conversation will have to stop until he is done because it is so bl**dy noisy

I agree with other posters though. 8pm is not that late in the summer and you can't expect everyone to arrange their life around your LOs bedtimes. Last week I was out cutting our lawn until nearly 9pm - mind you the youngest child near us is about 9.

The tosser next door to us uses his chainsaw until 10pm in the summer. This is despite him having a toddler of his own as well as 3 other kids, but his don't go to bed until 11.
Some people are just totally thoughtless.

Not that I judge them...