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Children playing out

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Elrel Tue 19-Apr-16 17:59:44

My short road is a cul de sac, I am in an 'arm' set at a right angle. My house is one of ten small terraced house opposite another ten, no road, only two pavements and strip of grass between them. Due to a slope the far end has a set of wide shallow steps.
Sunny day, three small boys, under 6, happily out on scooters and a small bike, going up and down the pavements and the steps. As I'm thinking how nice to see them out of doors the neighbour from the house nearest the top of the steps appears and shouts at them to go away. Their mother was already in her small front garden keeping an eye on them. Their father appears and replies to the neighbour.
Later I tell the mother that the neighbour is known for telling off children who play on the steps and has done it for the last 30+ years.
I feel so sad that this bullying behaviour cut short happy, innocent, inoffensive playing out.

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baNANAGran3 Sun 24-Apr-16 22:44:03

Thank you for the bump explanations! Ooo I can feel the page rising...

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Bez1989 Mon 25-Apr-16 01:02:53

Does anyone else on here remember those immortal words from.childhood....
"Go and play up your own end" !!! LOL.

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Elrel Mon 25-Apr-16 13:11:56

I think I heard them echo down my end (50 yards away!) only last week.

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AnnieGran Mon 25-Apr-16 13:30:17

In this village cul de sac of 28 houses, the last family with children moved out about a year ago. The new owners are middle aged without children. The house has been expensively renovated and looks nice, very smart, and they seem a friendly couple but it is very quiet without the voices of young children playing and shouting, throwing balls and splashing in their paddling pool. I really miss them.

The owner of the house at the top of the lane breeds very expensive little dogs, the type that get under your feet and trip you up. They yap all day long but apparently that is acceptable in the countryside while the noise of little children isn't.

When my younger GCs visit they are allowed to play and make as much noise as they like - I am more than a match for any old misery guts.hmm

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