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I'm sitting in the back garden preparing the BBQ, after a long, hard day for number 2 son's birthday at Legoland I feel we need a break - anyway she is still upstairs with the monkey.

The neighbours from 2 doors down are playing music loud from either a ghettoblaster or a pair of rubbish iPod speakers, too loud and distorting terribly. I don't understand how they can sit there and listen to it. Unbelievable.

It's all give and take really isn't it?

Some people may not like the fumes from your barbeque wofting through their open windows.

chebby:

It's all give and take really isn't it?

Some people may not like the fumes from your barbeque wofting through their open windows.

They've switched it off now thankfully. It wasn't really a question of give and take Chebbs, it was more how can they stand to listen to music distorting like crazy because it's being played at about twice the level the speakers are capable of.

I bet you guys had no idea you lived so close together

BBQs, kids crying, music too loud, car alarms etc are all a bit irritating at times but it is a matter of live-and-let-live and these things are usually transient.

What really bugs me is people who leave their dogs barking/pining all day or all night. Luckily that has not happened here recently, but I remember it driving people crazy a few years ago.

It does not even have to be nearby. At this time of year with windows open the sound carries a long way. Just have to rely on these people's immediate neighbours getting the most hacked off with it and taking action with the council/RSPCA etc.

This is not exclusive to 'bad areas'. The last time we experienced it was in a very posh little village in Wiltshire where the 'owner' turned out to be a very well spoken elderly lady who was looking after her son's dog for a weekend. Unfortunately it was more distressing to her than anyone else. There was no way she could placate the animal and she had to spend a lot of money to get it temporarliy kennelled. (The local National Trust 'warden' who lived nearby insisted on it.)

I've got The Low Anthem competing with the Magpies at the moment. Driving me nuts.

The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

JoelSim:

chebby:

It's all give and take really isn't it?

Some people may not like the fumes from your barbeque wofting through their open windows.

They've switched it off now thankfully. It wasn't really a question of give and take Chebbs, it was more how can they stand to listen to music distorting like crazy because it's being played at about twice the level the speakers are capable of.

 

JoelSim:

I'm sitting in the back garden preparing the BBQ, after a long, hard day for number 2 son's birthday at Legoland I feel we need a break - anyway she is still upstairs with the monkey.

The neighbours from 2 doors down are playing music loud from either a ghettoblaster or a pair of rubbish iPod speakers, too loud and distorting terribly. I don't understand how they can sit there and listen to it. Unbelievable.

 

JohnDuncan:

JoelSim:

I'm sitting in the back garden preparing the BBQ, after a long, hard day for number 2 son's birthday at Legoland I feel we need a break - anyway she is still upstairs with the monkey.

The neighbours from 2 doors down are playing music loud from either a ghettoblaster or a pair of rubbish iPod speakers, too loud and distorting terribly. I don't understand how they can sit there and listen to it. Unbelievable.

 

Bose SoundDock then?

Much much worse than that JD. I would imagine it was less than £20, and being played louder than Concorde.

Gusboll:

I've got The Low Anthem competing with the Magpies at the moment. Driving me nuts.

The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

How about sticking a copy of this through your neighbours letterbox

survivor:

How about sticking a copy of this through your neighbours letterbox

Why? Do they need another TV? 

Fenton Beasley:

survivor:

How about sticking a copy of this through your neighbours letterbox

Why? Do they need another TV? 

so wicked