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.....and everyone and his dog thinks it's a good idea to sit in the garden with their windows open, so they can hear their radio/CD's playing from the house!!!!
After the lad next door finished revving his moped at 9.30 this morning I've had to listen to next doors (that's both sides) music in the garden, or the base beat from my immediate neigbours in the house - and that's with my windows closed.
Went out to mow the garden - and they turned it down. Came back in and up it went again, so I presume they're aware of how loud it is!
Two can play at that game......
I've decided it's impossible to listen to Radio 4, so am now listening to Jaques Brel - very loudly. Will be off to do some vaccuuming later - must remember to turn it up enough so I can hear it above the vaccuum!!!
Shame I only have a CD player upstairs, and, of course, will want to sit downstairs to listen to it!!

yep soon as its warm the music gets trned up and everyone gets drunk n has bbq's my neighbour played the music right thro the night on firday i got up befre 6 and it was still going,

altho i nt mine the baby sleeps thro noise, and as long as he dont complain the i dont mind too much xxx

Maggie, you took the thoughts out of my mind. I was outdoors this morning pottering in the garden, and the noise was terrible. Loud music, dogs crying and howling, kids shouting and screaming, fathers telling them to 'F', hammering and banging, car welding, it is endless. These are the same ones, that at 10.30 at night when I go up to have a quiet read, are pontificating in loud voices at their front gates, whilst the kids are shouting and screaming up and down the length of the street.
I was only thinking to myself whilst outside that, just because a person lives on a street, it does not give them free licence to be totally obnoxious.
The words, head and brick wall, easily come to my mind.
Think I'll sit indoors for a while, and do the crossword.
Enjoy the rest of the day
Julia in Derbyshire

Know what you mean. I've been demented with the light breeze whispering through the trees in the orchard. That blackbird is singing fit to wake the dead and the chaffinches are making a right racket. There's a pair of collared doves round the back, cooing away. No consideration at all. Even the snoring of the dogs is louder today.

I thought I heard the distant rumble of a tractor earlier, but I think it was probably just an old ewe scratching herself against a fence.

:-)

I am in the middle of London, doors and windows wide open and not a sound can be heard...think they are all still sleeping off their hangovers! lol BC XX

Eldrick that's mean!!!!!
I'd love to be woken by the crowing of a cockerel rather than the revving of a motorbike!!
Even being woken by a sheep blundering into my tent and walking on me when I was living in Shetland was a minor discomfort in comparison.

Bloke opposite me drives his motorbike down a ramp to the road, sits there revving it for a coupleof minutes, disappears inside, reappears 10 minutes later (just as I'm dropping off), revs the bike a bit more and drives off!

Must close the window now, the smell of 'barbeque lighting' stuff (why they can't use kindling is beyond me) is permeating through the house.
Must get washing in as well I suppose.

I can hear a pin drop where I am, can hear the odd hooting of a train in the distance ,odd car noise,,,,,bliss,,,,,,,,not even a hum of a mower,,,,,,,just the splashing of the hormonal fish trying to be rude with the ladies.:}}}}}}

Swops yer, Elds Baby
Julia in Derbyshire

I can hear the cockerel next door ,the birds singing and some traffic noise from the A14.All in all it is bliss.

When it's 'quiet' around here, there is the constant hum of the M3 (not built when I first moved here) we are also now on the flight path to Southampton Parkway. They moved the flight path because Southampton residents (most of whom moved there AFTER the airport became commercial) were complaining!!

I want to go somewhere where it's so quiet my ears hurt!

When I go down the allotment with the OH, the only sounds are of wild life, a cuckoo, a shoot in the distant, and spade hitting earth. Put this with a mug of tea brewed on an open fire, and a bacon butty held in a bit of a mucky hand, and you have what I would call peace. Even when the days are cooler and shorter, tea and a butty are heaven.
Julia in Derbyshire

im so lucky now but have lived in london lived in sunderland lived on estates but now a 2up 2 down semi in a village enclosed back garden only sound is the birdies tweeting, when i was younger and had kids i was probably used to it but not year and its a local authority housing so i think myself even luckier to have a nice house xx