really fed up this morning,my neighbour who only has one teenage son, decided to put her head over the fence yesterday 6.00pm and tell 3 of my children off for being too noisy. DD had been hit by her eldest brother (they were playing sword fighting on the trampoline) and I had shouted to them what's happened, they were all shouting over each other to try and get there version over to me. They all ran inside quite frightened. I sent DH against his will, as he doesn't like conflict with anyone else, to ask her not to tell the children off and that we would do it. She got quite aggresive and started shouting at DH, said she has a right to peace in her own garden, said our children were anti-social and that she was going to take it further.
Think I have started this problem off as approx 16 months ago my children were all asleep (on a school night)and her son started to play his full size drum kit about 9.45pm I banged on the wall because it was getting on my nerves. He has only played the drum since then up to approx 8.00pm he still plays loud music now & again I also called to there house and asked if his mum was in last summer because a friend of the boy next door had stuck 2 fingers up at my children while he was in next door's bedroom.She wasn't in, so I polietly asked him to tell his friend not to be rude to my children. Last October, the Saturday that the half term started at 4.30pm next door's DH called and told me that my children were making too much noise in the house and it was getting his wife down, he said the vibration of them running was echoing. I got on to the noise pollution officer on the following Monday, and he said that as long as the children were not jumping on the spot constantly just to annoy neighbours that the children were ok to be 'children' That Saturday we had just had laminated floor laid down stairs, and I was moving furniture around upstairs in an attempt to finish LO bedroom before upstairs floors were done, I had been hammering which probably didn't help the situation. Children couldn't play out then as garden was water logged.The children didn't go out to play yesterday until 3.00pm,granted they were a little noisy, but her son plays his drums in the afternoon when my children are in School and he has his bedroom window open, the garden is definately not a quite place to be. I haven't complained about his drum kit since he stopped playing so late, I just put up with it, even though my DH does shiftwork, I haven't complained about his jungle music, or the fact that a few months ago he had a pile of friends round late, when I was in bed that had been drinking, the noise only lasted for approx 45 mins so we just excepted it. My children are all bathed and in bed by 8.00pm on School Holidays, even earlier on School nights(I had just bathed youngest when she shouted at the others)We know that there will be more trouble now as her DH works away and I 'think' his new car is parked across the road, so think he may have come home this morning (there drive already has 2 cars parked on it)so no doubt he will be knocking soon.Her DH told me years ago that he had poisned his 'previous' neighbours lovely flowers,in order to get back at them for upsetting them. I feel really worried about this. Also over the last few years they have become very good friends with the neighbours on the other side of them, he is in the voluntary police, feel as though they think they have the right to intimidate us because of this, any advice girls, don't be worried if you don't think I will like your advice, I would rather you are honest with me!