Summer noise

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Crossstitchfan, bit pedantic, it was a typo it sometimes happens

Skydancer

pably15

I love summer, lawnmowers and strimmers have to be used to keep our gardens tidy, I don't like loud music, but I love to see and hear young children enjoying themselves, too many dreary winter days ahead,

I wholeheartedly agree.

It has been said over and over that young children enjoying themselves is one thing, but incessant screaming is another thing entirely.

welbeck

Why is this in Pedants Corner ???

I suppose one risks being called pedantic for pointing this out?

pably15

I love summer, lawnmowers and strimmers have to be used to keep our gardens tidy, I don't like loud music, but I love to see and hear young children enjoying themselves, too many dreary winter days ahead,

I wholeheartedly agree.

Why is this in Pedants Corner ???

During Covid I posted about our neighbours children screaming and shouting in the garden from dawn till dusk.
I was quickly criticised and shouted down ,people saying they loved to hear happy children playing.
I just wished I could change gardens with them.
I had to buy ear defenders to sit in my own garden.
It was exacerbated by the Father being at home all day joining in and encouraging them.
It really was horrendous.
A few years on and now it is the boy, older now, kicking a football monotonously into the fence, thud, thud, thud.
Another neighbour complacent and it quieted for a few days.
I have balls come over into my garden several times a week,
They have never once asked for them back, my S ,if he is here, throws them back but I have had 5 at a time here.

When people say live and let live they really can’t have the same noise as it really is intolerable.
OP has my sympathy.

Nancat
That must drive you to distraction and it is really not fair.
We used to have a dog living directly behind us which was left out in the garden while they were out at work all day and it barked endlessly all day. If it was (rarely) quiet, it was because a neighbour had taken pity on it and taken it in to her house. They moved eventually but it can't have been far because we could hear it from the other side of the valley.

Now we've got a yapper nearby!

You could tell her how much it upsets you , are there other neighbours who would back you up? Why would the family have dogs then expect an elderly woman to care for eight of them daily? 😯

Tizliz

10.30 - 11.15 last night, screaming and hooting outside. It was a baby short ear owl sitting on our wall demanding to be fed. It looked very sweet and fluffy but very noisy. Moved on eventually. Who says the country is quiet 😃😃

How lovely, Tizliz, the kind of noise we like to hear!

I miss the owl which used to sit in a conifer in a neighbouring garden and hoot at night. Unfortunately the tree had to be felled (it was dangerous) and I do miss the owl.
But not the conifer.

i used to love summer here its peacefull just the normal summer noises but this year sitting in the garden has been unbearable Gatwick airport has changed the flight paths and we have had constant planes over head incoming to the airport we even here it indoors as live in a park home so aircraft noise sometimes drowns out the tv or conversations we live over 20 miles from the airport and i really feel sorry for those who live nearer

Can’t you close the windows and draw the curtains now if you are so upset at the sounds of summer ??

10.30 - 11.15 last night, screaming and hooting outside. It was a baby short ear owl sitting on our wall demanding to be fed. It looked very sweet and fluffy but very noisy. Moved on eventually. Who says the country is quiet 😃😃

You are not alone Fflaurie, we suffer greatly from summer noise. When our neighbour retired he took up woodworking as a hobby, but its all done outside in the garden using power tools. The circular saw is the worst. The scream of the saw is never ending and when that stops another power tool takes over. Its impossible to go outside. I have tried ear plugs and headphones, but really I would like to sit in my garden with a nice cup of tea, read a book and listen to the birds. I was away last week at a festival in a bustling coastal town and it was utterly quiet in the garden of the place I was renting. Couldnt believe it. DH is refusing to move.

My worst problem is dogs. One side terriers who are let into the garden at 7 -8 am and left out all day until dark, constantly yapping. On the other side a lovely helpful Great Grandma, who looks after her DC and DGC and DGGC's dogs every day, about 8 per day on average, all of which bark and yap throughout the day, (also left out in her garden). I live with a permanent headache. She says she does it because they bark and upset the neighbours when left at home alone all day. I agree and say it must be very annoying, but it falls on deaf ears, she doesn't make the connection. So inconsiderate, but I say nothing directly as I don't want to fall out with my neighbours.

Our neighbour whistles tunelessly whenever he's in the garden. We were sitting out in the garden the other day and he was treating us to a terrible rendition of Singin' in the Rain

@Fflaurie I think you mean angle grinders? I mainly have lawnmowers and the odd leaf blower.

I don't understand why children have to scream. We have new neighbours with children, and they constantly scream and shout. If something serious happened and they screamed no-one would take notice.

I do also love the sounds of summer and children laughing playing in a normal way at a reasonable volume.
I think noise levels have increased markedly over the past 30 years. Often wonder if a lot of really noisy people can actually hear themselves qnd if they suffer with undiagnosed hearing problems

Noise cancelling headphones help but are difficult to sleep in.

I had a workman at the bottom of my garden, he was painting all the wooden buildings. Having been out when I came back I went down just to let him know I was back and
of course to check all okay. He commented it must be awful for my neighbour being so deaf especially as she is quite young. I had to tell him she isn't deaf but speaks very loudly especially when on phone. Well she must have been on her phone for a couple of hours as he said he'd heard her all afternoon. That's the kind if noise I just cannot stand.

We are all different, aren’t we? I like lots of things about summer but I don’t like the heat. And I hate closing my curtains even in the winter - I live in a town and I like to be able to see and hear human activity too.

But have always liked the idea that I think they have in Germany, where you’re not allowed to use powered tools on Sundays. Most of the shops are closed too and I think HGV movements are restricted. It doesn’t seem to affect national productivity.

But I thought Sundays were deadly boring as a child/teenager. Like others, we were not allowed to play outside unless we were relatively quiet. We were told that people had worked all week and needed a rest on Sundays without hearing children arguing and shouting. I think it was quite good in that it made us more aware of the impact of our behaviour on other people. And we had a proper sense of our place in the pecking order, which was pretty near the bottom back then!

My garden backs on to the school playing field so it gets plenty of noise at breaktimes and lunch times. Now it's summer holiday there is total silence. Our houses are built away from the road so most of the time all I hear is the birds.

Round here its the sound of tractors and trailers tearing up the road at break neck speeds. Some towing huge slurry tankers, dread to think what it would be like if one over-turned - yuk.

Children playing and laughing is nice to hear but I agree with the screaming . I think that is going to cause a problem if ..God forbid.. one got attacked. Nobody looks out now if they hear screaming. A self defence course I went on said shout "fire" because we are becoming deaf to screams

My sister and I were never allowed to scream, to the point if we were ever attacked in any way we wouldn’t have been able to! I didn’t let my DD scream either, it’s a noise that genuinely hurts my ears. Love to hear children at play though, just no screaming or screeching please.

I do think that people are less considerate and noisier than they used to be. My hearing level is down but find background music and people in cafes so much noisier even so.

But I love the sound of the children playing around me ( I am child friendly volunteering at school and for scouts/guides), just the one little spoiled brat further down who screams all of the time! So much so that her neighbours have put up a thick tall hedge to try to mask it. There is always one to spoil things.
DH will jump up to mow the lawn when he hears the neighbours doing theirs which reduces the neighbourhood noise time.

The only bugbear I have is the neighbours behind who seem to wait until I have just put a line of whites out to light their bbq.