No more silence is golden

I don’t mind these noises to be honest, but what I do mind is my neighbour lighting the bbq without giving me prior warning so I can bring my washing in

Lawns have to be mowed indeed. We never had problems with it, our neighbours are our good friends. We even borrowed an electric lawn mower of them and it was pretty quiet. I guess it was one of these mentioned here. We're planning either getting a similar one or try a robotic one.

I rather like these noises. Sounds of summer

dragonfly another vote here for robot mowers. Lovely and quiet and no fumes.

So Sorry travelsafar - I seem to have put my post in the wrong place!

I'm glad our nearest neighbours are half a mile away.

They'd never put up with DH strimming/mowing/hedge trimming/cursing and shouting at barking dogs if they lived any closer.

At least we no longer have a cockerel.

Blimey!

Lawns have to be mowed, although a strimmer sound is annoying if it goes on and on.
I don’t mind most outdoorsy niffs, except when local farmers start on the muck spreading.

What to do? My neighbour has seven grandchildren who visit regularly - several times a week. The four year old boy is a pest. He and the other children play out in the front. They use my handrail as a swing. Just lately it has amused them to ring my doorbell and knock on the window. They run into their Nan’s house and watch to see if I look out. Tonight I heard an enormous thud on my window, didn’t know it was a fist or a stone. I shouted at the boy through the window. He thought it was very funny. I went outside and stood on my path. Eventually their Nan came out and apologised and said he’d been told off. He’s only four she said. Why can’t they supervise these children. My grandchildren would never be allowed to go onto someone else’s property. And he’s broken the back garden fence by climbing under is frequently - NaN knows about it too but he’s not stopped from doing it. I wanted pretty ornamental stones in my front garden but have now given up this idea as they’d be too much of a temptation!

....when would you suggest people do their outside chores?
Most people work 9-5 m-f. Even at that, there’s No guarantee they wouldn’t be doing it during naptime if they were home to do their yard.

I love the smell of people using their bbq, I hate the smell of wood stove/camp fire. I swear my neighbours are trying to force me to keep my windows closed, But it’s their right to use that as a heating source if they want to. This is part of living with people.

I can live with the machine noise. When I’m in my daughters garden at the weekend it’s the two constantly yapping dogs next door that drive me mad. They don’t even look like proper dogs but little rats

I have a robot mower which is silent ?

I think lawnmowers and BBCs are the signs that summer is here, but i do object to one of neighbours, a young couple who have their music so loud i cant hear my radio or TV They also have 2 young children, how they sleep through it i dont know

When the sun comes out, the garden starts growing so lawns need cutting. With our weather, you grab the moment and the weather when it comes.

I find the sound of a distant lawn mower quite pleasant. It speaks of families being at home and getting on with domestic chores and enjoying having an opportunity to get out of doors. lawn mowing is usually followed by the sounds of children playing or couples are happily pottering round the garden together weeding and planting.

I don’t find the noise of garden machinery particularly annoying, it has to be done, I am in agreement about smells though, on occasion the local farmer must spray something with the most disgusting smell, if your washing is out it all has to be taken in and washed again! Wherever you live, it’s never going to be perfect

If you work full-time, it's hard not to mow and strim lawn during the evenings. If you leave it til the weekend, it might rain!

I wouldn't do it after about 8.30 pm or before 9.00 am.

It doesn't worry me what my neighbours do.

It drives me mad too. It would be so lovely if we had one day a week were no one was allowed to use power tools of any kind. Apparently Germany does this on a Sunday. Bliss!

All our neighbours are very peaceful except for the noisy family. Throughout the summer they will have numerous parties lasting until about 2am, they appear to be doing karaoke and definitely shouldn’t give up the day job!
I am very tempted to go and knock on their door at 4.45am when I leave for work but I’m generally too tired.
I don’t mow our lawn after about 5pm or before 9am and most of our neighbours are the same. The odd time it’s later I don’t object.

I cannot believe lawns are being mown every evening.

I remember posting about this last year, the noise (especially strimmers, my ex husband would go out , topless of couse, and strim a huge area of our garden, I wonder if the screenwriters for Poldark were passing and got inspired irritating self loving git ) and the smell.

And then, oh then! The glorious smell when the tractors moved into the field at the end of the garden to cut the grass! The windows in the home office (smallest bedroom) were oped, and the lovely smell permeated the whole of the upstairs!

Well I live in a rural area without immediate neighbours but we still have the tractors, combine harvesters, muck spreaders (close the windows!), potato planting and picking machines .....

Then the real noise of the wildlife - especially foxes and cranes!

The sun makes the grass grow. Without it there would be no grass to cut, but no sunshine to sit out in either. I wonder what would be your complaint if the grass were never cut? That your neighbours neglect their garden?

It isn't a ritual, it is an attempt to keep the blasted stuff from becoming a jungle - rather as the vacuum cleaner is an attempt to keep on top of the chaos indoors.

Not sure when us working people are meant to cut the grass if not on an evening or weekend?

Smells are soon dispelled here by the permanent sea breeze. It's just a relief that woodburners have calmed a bit as that's what gets up my nostrils and irritates the sinuses during winter months-----everything else I can put up with.

I’m with you on that Gonegirl - BBQ smells are worse than the noise I think.
Truly horrible.

And we get that on a Sunday afternoon. Grrr.