Summer noise

I would welcome some restrictions on when all these machines may be used.

In my childhood no-body mowed a lawn on a Sunday, whether they went to church or not.

I am not saying we should revert to that, but surely it would be possible to have by-laws stating that power tools, including lawn-mowers, strimmers and hedge cutters may be used on week-day evenings until 9.pm and on Saturdays and Sundays after 2 p.m. With the amount of rain we are getting, grass cannot be mown in the morning.

And children can and should be taught not to scream and shout when playing and dogs taught not to bark at anything that moves!

Ran parallel to ‘OURS’, not ‘toys’!😂

@Crosstitchfan, many threads start off with a good old moan about something, why have your guns trained on this OP?
I can be a grumpy old git sometimes but am sure am not alone in this.
As it is summer noises don’t bother me unless is constant drilling, but if someone lives in a built up area where there is excessive noise, this carries more easily on a hot day and I imagine can become irritating.
Maybe you have irritations that others wouldn’t agree with. Horses for courses.

Apologies to anyone I have offended. I was totally out of order and should have put my comment more kindly. Not like me, but given the birthday I have just had, I can put it down to old age 😂.
Seriously, I really am sorry.

Why is this in Pedants' Corner?? ! I'm a bit of a pedant but I LOVE summer and all its noises (apart from the boy racers on the nearby highways who insist on disturbing everyone in the early morning and late at night).

We have purposely moved to a quiet close filled with 'older' residents hoping for a quiet life after living on a very busy road with children all around. Unfortunately one neighbour has the whole family round every Sunday, the children scream and shout until late when they go home. Take them to a playground or event for children - I don't want to listen to them and yes I am miserable.

Gosh, that was harsh and unkind, Crosstitchfan 😯

Some days it's a bit noisy round here but at least it drowns out the noise of those flippin' pigeons!!

Crossstitchfan

Apologies to anyone I have offended. I was totally out of order and should have put my comment more kindly. Not like me, but given the birthday I have just had, I can put it down to old age 😂.
Seriously, I really am sorry.

Oops, I didn't see that post first.

Belated birthday greetings
Sorry it was a bad day.

The noise and anti social behaviour is the reason I hate summer and especially light nights. I don't mind grass cutters, children playing etc....but I hate music in gardens.

Thank you for the flowers Allira

I've left you a message on the good morning thread Crossstichfan.

I'm wondering if the OP is possibly autistic? My grandson is autistic, among many other things and he cannot tolerate noise. It's painful to him.

My elder son and his family live in Kew which is a beautiful place. Not far from the tube, lots of independent shops and the Gardens. But! It is in the Heathrow flight path. When I first stayed with them I couldn’t believe the noise. Low flying aircraft, one after the other. Another ‘but’ - one gets used to it. I would suggest the OP moves.

Aldom - it's unfair to suggest someone is autistic because they don't like noise. Selfish people who inflict their noise on others are the problem and spoil summer for all.

I think the time has gone expecting people to have a bit of thought for others.
And tho I like hearing kids playing I hate the trend for girls of any age to scream their heads off everywhere from back gardens to pub gardens.

I fully agree with you 1000%!

I hate the summer and all the noise.

We have children in the gardens of two of our neighbours and they're really not that noisy, just shouting excidetdly and "letting off steam" as someone said.Noises of parties and barbecues doesn't bother me either. I like to hear people enjoying themselves. Anyway , wadda'ya' gonna' do when you you have your own barbie if you can't live with other peoples'?
About 8 o'clock every night at present a gang of Belgian Ring-Necked Doves have an almighty scrap in one of our garden trees which amuses OH and I no end.
Strimmers and Lawnmowers -it's usually us making the noise albeit within controlled French noise limitation time limits.
I'm sorry Fflaurie feels this way. Hope she's not a bit depressed.

Birds! that triggered another memory of living on the edge of west London . Summer, the green squawkers arrived en masse. Parakeets, not native of course, the explanation for their presence, apocryphal maybe? some escaped during the making of The African Queen at Shepperton Studios well they'd obviously adapted to a harsher climate because that was years ago. They were very prolific in the area where we lived and very noisy!

Happy birthday Crossstitchfan

Thank you so much Whywhywhy! X

Why is it that children can no longer laugh and giggle? They have to scream as if a mad axe man is coming after them. In our previous house, the next door but one's offspring and their chums just screamed and screamed. In the summer, I just had to shut all the windows and disappear to the other end of the house. Atrocious. Unnecessary.

We moved to a newbuild area where we are much closer to our neighbours than previously but we’ve coped with the extra noise. Or rather, I have, as Dh is deaf! We’re quite close to a playpark but that doesn’t bother me.

The worst noise comes from barking dogs. How do their owners manage to sit serenely in their houses when their dogs are outside barking non-stop? Luckily, if the windows are closed it muffles the sound but I feel sorry for anyone who has a baby or small child and lives next to these anti-social folk - especially the one whose dog sometimes barks at one or two in the morning!!

Bukkie

Aldom - it's unfair to suggest someone is autistic because they don't like noise. Selfish people who inflict their noise on others are the problem and spoil summer for all.

What I said was meant kindly. I know how much my grandson suffers from other people's noise. I have already expressed sympathy for the OP regarding her situation.
It was after my first response that it occurred to me that the OP could be austitic and extra sensitive to noise.
I suggested this in an empathetic way.
And by the way, there's nothing wrong with being autistic!

I know what you said was meant kindly Aldom but as someone who prefers Autumn and Winter and dark nights I am always being accused of being boring, being miserable, being autistic, being pathetic, bring stupid, being antisocial to name a few insults I have been called over the years. Sun worshippers just cannot understand people like different things. I don't call summer lovers names but they seem to think it's acceptable to call Autumn and Winter people names.

Bukkie I'm sorry you have experienced such unkindness.
I feel sorry for the OP on this thread because she's recieved some unkind comments. My reference to autism was meant to alert people to the very real fact that some of us, my grandson included, find noise intolerable. I was asking people to take into account that we're all different and not to judge by how one is affected oneself. None of us know how another is feeling/affected.
My grandson is 16 and has been bullied throughout his school life.

I teach so I understand autism. Many children don't go into assembly, the canteen etc...because of the noise. Or they wear ear defenders to cope.