Why aren't people in their gardens or gazing out their window ?

[ImfinallyaMummy]

What are they all doing?

I flit from being indoors to popping out to the garden to back indoors and nosing out the window. I can see many gardens from my house and no one is in theirs! Nor are they gazing out their windows.
Am I missing something? DH even said he was beginning to think we aren't allowed in our gardens as it's really odd round here.

(Yes I know I'm being nosey)

I'm working far more hours than usual picking up tasks for colleagues who are doing 50% of their workload for 100% of their pay because they have their kids at home (I don't resent this at all and am just stating a fact).

A chance to be out in the garden would be a fine thing!

Most of my neighbours have been driven indoors by the three week competitive screaming match (under 10s section) taking place on the trampoline four doors down.

I'm just amazed that the daughter hasn't shattered all the windows with her 4000 decibel shrieking.

Working. Working. Some more work. Doing the horses. No time for garden. Sigh! But I’m not complaining, just tired!

I wasn’t out in mine today due to neighbours two young boys being left unattended outside whilst they ‘took the dog for a walk’. In other words, they got fed up of the kids and wanted to get away from them. They never walked the dog before lockdown and it’s hideously obese poor thing. Kids are only aged 7-10-ish. Probably shouldn’t be left home alone for over an hour. The screaming and yelling was horrendous. Sounded like they were going to kill each other.

We were trying to enjoy dinner inside with the window open and it was impossible. There is quite a large distance between our dining room and their back garden too! It was so loud that DH and I just sat there awkwardly in silence as we’d have to shout over the kids to be heard.

We are either in the back garden or in the living room reading/watching tv.

Working.

But even when I'm not, I would not be gazing out of my window. What a weird thing to spend your time doing.

My neighbour is constantly out in the garden screaming, shouting, having loud phone conversations, yelling at the kids, getting pissed etc. It drives me mad and I get absolutely no chance to enjoy my lovely garden as she never shuts the fuck up. They were loud from 6am this morning - my DP got home from work at 8am after a 14hr shift and has had no respite from the noise since. I can still hear them and it's after 10pm

I occasionally see other neighbours out in their gardens but most seem to stay indoors.

My neighbours never use their garden, even to dry washing. Nor do they ever seem to open any windows or doors either.

I could be your neighbour. And the reason why I rarely have my windows open is that my neighbours often have their windows open and they're noisy inside, or there's a bunch of kids teens shouting and swearing in the back garden, or there's someone sitting in their car on the driveway with the engine running for whatever reason, or it's the weekend and the local banger racing track is holding races, or etc etc.

Yeah. I don't like noise.

We are all in our gardens - separates by hedges and fences but still managing a nice hello or a brief chat from a decent distance. The new noise this spring? ... the sound of beer cans being popped open!!

Love to go in the garden but my neighbours have their grandchildren round every afternoon running round screaming. Social distancing does not apply to them apparently. When the kids go home they let the dog out into the garden where it barks constantly until they let it in again. So no peace here 😡

The feckers in our village are smoking us out with their bonfires, smoke both inside and outside the house. If it isn’t that it is the smoke from their wood burning stoves.

For the first time in a long time today the air was clear and I could smell the grass out of the window, when.....f... me! Acrid smoke! Now still seeping into house through closed windows at 10pm

I've been in and out all day, loving the sunshine and bird song and smell of the flowers. Neighbours on both sides were outdoors too, so I had the extra pleasure of hearing children laughing and playing.

I lived for years in flats with no outdoor space, and as soon as I could afford a place with a garden, that became one of my top priorities. I'm not even much of a gardener -- I just love that bit of greenery.

My neighbour is constantly out in the garden screaming, shouting, having loud phone conversations, yelling at the kids, getting pissed etc

Oh no, that's miserable. I sympathise. I've had some horrendous neighbours but thank god not like that here.

Most people where I live are working at home so can’t spend all day in their garden or looking out of the window. Except one neighbour, who doesn’t work, she comes out to stare and tut every time we get a Morrison’s or Tesco’s delivery. 🙄 Shes great. 🤣 The dogs are in the garden though and me and the kids do go out in the garden for an hour or so each day.

I'm in and out all day. I have to cook, clean, out for my daily walk, do activities with my kids (sometimes in the garden), referee arguments between them, watch movie. I dont have time to spend hours staring out my window and sit in the garden for hours on end - even though I wish I did 😂

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I'v been outside most of the afternoon. Not many neighbours but I could here a few out cutting grass etc. I will confess to looking out my window to see whether anyone was clapping last Thursday.

Watching shows online.

We've been outside in our garden most of the day. Our toddler is used to going to various activities in the morning with my mom whilst I'm at work. Obviously that has changed now but he still has ALOT of energy! So we've been enjoying the sun while it lasts. When he had a nap this afternoon, me and my eldest daughter repainted some of our fence panels.
I did think that when people were walking past the fence at the bottom of our garden (it backs onto a path), there were only a couple of feet away from me while Is was painting! The fence gave a false sense of security, I had to keep stepping back when I heard people passing

We've been out all day every day forcing my neighbours listening to me and the kids yelling almost constantly. We live in what I thought was quite a family area but we can only ever hear one other family out playing. My kids are 3 and 4 though so maybe I just cant hear any one else over the constant arguing and screaming that comes from my two all day long

As someone who is shielding, with neighbours who thing isles fine to throw parties and let their kids play in my garden (over a 6 foot fence) and spit and leave half eaten things in my garden... no I don’t want to be out there... unless I’m allowed to shoot the neighbours

Working... Looking forward to the weekend though

I just finished helping my son with his maths, now I'm going to help him with his English (on a break at present), then I'll get some piano in and him then we'll do some Spanish together as unless you have someone to communicate with is usually the reason kids don't bother. Then I'll do his singing lessons. As a boy they seem to demand more attention and help than girls. My sister has a girl and two boys. The girl is excelling exponentially whilst the two boys are coasting. We do have all the windows open mind. I've just come off the phone talking to a beekeeper business for a long time about people should be social creates and how even when we go for a walk most people will say hello, others will stop and chat from a good distance - but a good chat and then you have those that are only social to their family (hopefully) but couldn't care less about anyone else. So I do tend to look out the window from time to time especially when I hear some strange noise, hoping people aren't killing each other in confinement. But we on this forum are all social enough to reply. Stay safe and take care everyone.

We have no garden but we do stare longingly out of the windows a lot. We’ve had to close the curtains today on all south facing windows because we live on the top floor and it’s sooooo hot inside.

Working from home, although I walk through garden as office is in summerhouse. Kids are in garden killing each other most days.