Help - unexpectedly illuminated !

Cymres1 - thank you for that. Hoping they have a sense of humour when my niece goes round to complain. Until then - as soon as it’s dark I feel like I’m interned with Ivan Denisovich ?

Dartmoorgal

I have no idea what advice to give other than have you thought of floodlighting a stage in your garden for impromptu and hilarious stand up ?

Absolutely, I loved your take on the problem, I hope it's resolved with a few gentle words with the neighbours. Fingers crossed.
Security lights would be handy for you too though, when you get back late from being on Live at the Apollo. Thanks so much for a great laugh, and best of luck.

Invite them over for coffee and let them see for themselves, they may not realise

Rufus2 - behave you wicked thing !
I am not loopy - I’m blinded !
And no mother in law - never got an offer !

Any ideas on how to deal with it ?
Infinity2 Plenty! How many do you want?
Have you been out the front to see if there are 3 scorch marks?

Firstly, I'd stop watching reruns of Midsomer Murders!
The farmers regularly found mysterious marks in their fields, which they attributed to visiting aliens!
Don't laugh! Perhaps your Mother-in-Law paid you a visit from outer space, but took off after spotting all those dirty dishes in the sink!

PC Alf Ventriss in "Heartbeat" once had a visitation from a space ship whilst he was parked in his car one night! Blinding lights, the lot!

On the other hand, have you considered moving the kitchen round to the back of your house?
There used to be a builder/renovator named Al Read on TV years and years ago who would have recommended that as a solution.
On the other hand (again), I might book an appointment with my psychiatrist before I go completely mad!
Good Luck!

It's illegal to shine them on anyone's property except the owners.
As others have said, ask them politely to angle them differently.

Midwifebi6 you do know that most burglaries take place during the day don't you?

Midwifeb16... Its not anyone's responsibility to alter their own living arrangements to accommodate for other peoples in considerations. If someone told me to put a blind up, I'd say " I shouldn't have to". Or " you buy and install it for me then" Or " I don't want blinds up". If you can't alter your nuisance light, I wouldn't like to be your neighbour, nor would anyone else. You sound very awkward.

Our neighbours have it on their back garden which has put off the hedgehogs visiting .Any movement it is on.Also misses is but our neighbour the other side ends up with a brightly lit garden horrendous

The neighbours behind our property are on higher ground and their security lights totally illuminate the our rear rooms at night. This is very useful for regular night-time trips to the loo. Fortunately we sleep in the front of the house otherwise we would not get any sleep because of brightness of the bedroom.
Until a short while ago the lights were on an "on-off" sequence of 20 seconds which was very irritating. I am tempted to arm myself with a long handle pole or heavy stones and sabotage them. Recently their neighbour has also installed similar lights and it is daylight for most of the night in our neighbourhood!

Infinnity2. You really need to say something, those lights sound a bit extreme, are they illegal? Surely they effect other people too.

Different but similar...

I came home one day to a bright pink kitchen! My neighbours had painted their house a barn-red, and the sun was shining down between the houses and reflected into my kitchen as pink! Not a thing I could do about it.

Over the years the paint has faded a bit, but it still gives our complexions a lovely glow when the sun is shining in just the right way...

I grew up on a farm. In our part of the valley there were a couple other houses. In winter we had torches to go out & feed the calves in the evening, my mum and dad were always most insistent I shone my torch on the ground & not up the road in front of me "because the neighbours won't like it if the light shines in their window". How times change!

I love your description and creative mind! I had the exact same issue with the house opposite me. Light illuminates on a motion sensor, it’s a fecking main road! But bright white glare into my dining room which is now my downstairs bedroom. I knocked and knocked but no reply day in and day out, I even contemplated getting an air rifle. But someone else must of complained and managed to get the occupiers because it’s now gone.

If all these fairy lights, solar lights, security lights fill more gardens, aeroplanes ✈ won't know where to land!

I'm sure they could adjust them if you asked, well hopefully. If not you need to speak to your local council. Good luck

ESPEE. Love your humour ?

Ha ha ...have to laugh ! same thing happened to me but the other way round .....the neighbour from the bottom of the close knocked on my door one evening to say my security lights were shining in his lounge and could I move them a bit ? I said sorry, no, I don't climb ladders, but please feel free to bring your ladder and adjust them .............think he was so surprised but he did so any way ! It was my cat that set them off all the time even though they were adjusted quite high ....do the same !

Maybe have a quiet word so that they can angle them down. I doubt they realise that they are bothering you. We are very rural and have security lights, one of my neighbours (about 4 fields away!) mentioned to me that they were very bright. We angled them down and no more issues. We honestly hadn’t realised.

We had this problem too. The lights would come on and off through the night lighting up our bedroom! In the end I wrote them a nice note explaining that I suffer from migraine and could they please see that it was altered. Problem solved. They probably don't realise. Good luck

coastalgran - remind me never to upset you ?

It probably won't take long for the local teenagers/kids to spot a wonderful new target and they will be out of action fairly soon. Failing that offer the local kids/teenagers a financial incentive/food incentive to do exactly as described.

Oh for goodness sake security lights are one of the best form of deterrents to deter intruders we have them in our back and front garden and 4 cctv cameras around our house. Having seen the upset my sister had after she was burgled and her children frightened to go to bed at night we take our security very seriously. In the 50 years we have been married we have never been burgled.
Just fit a more reliable kitchen blind that comes down enough to obscure the glare from next door.

Well you certainly made me laugh!
I would suggest going round & very politely explain the problem & ask them to come round & see for themselves. I am sure they can be easily moved a bit to solve the problem.
We have a security light in our drive & our cats are always setting it off. Luckily it only affects us not our neighbours & the cats seem to love being in the spotlight!

Its a common problem that I have been on both ends of. Its honestly sometimes not easy to know if you are illuminating a neighbour. When I was asked to adjust ours I was apologetic and did so immediately and the same when I was on the receiving end. Honestly its probabaly not a big deal, go and have a chat.