Outdoor speakers

[Primrose]

Watching the Gardeners World show on TV I was horrified to find they've now invented hi fi speakers that can be stored permanently outdoors. How anti-social can you get??? Just imagine sitting out quietly in your garden enjoying an al fresco meal listening to the birds then suddenly you start getting "thump thump" rock music blaring out from next door. Is our outdoor peace and quiet going to be destroyed for ever?

[peter]

Whatever do you mean "going to be"?

Try living in soome of the less "socially aware" of this countrys council or social housing developments.

Alternatively move down here and hear the quiet of Londons third airport.

[Primrose]

No need for us to move Pete to share your peace of London's third airport. We've got our own here, right under the Heathrow flight path!

[Colin_M]

In our previous house, the neighbours had an outdoor swimming pool.

Many a warm summers evening was accompanied by shrieks & cavorting from next door - it made having a quiet meal outside a bit of a trial.

I was tempted to tip a large bag of frogs over the wall, but decided it might be too cruel (for the frogs....)


Colin

[Primrose]

I guess the whole issue of domestic/garden noise pollution is not likely to go away, especially in the light of lifestyle moves to encourage more outdoor living/eating, etc. However, some people just don't seem to realise that noise doesn't stop at fence boundaries. With more houses & flats being crammed onto ever tighter spaces, perhaps the time has come for some nationally enforceable Bye-Laws so that everybody understands what is, and isn't acceptable. It seems to me that politicians are quite willing to introduce bureaucratic legislation that doesn't benefit anybody but real gritty issues which affect peoples' day-to-day lives don't get much support. Even the legislation on the Lleylandi issue, which really caused misery to a lot of innocent people was so bodged that it didn't really benefit those it was aimed at.

[fish]

Try living in soome of the less "socially aware" of this countrys council or social housing developments.

its NOT just people in social housing that are anti social! i live in a council cottage in a very rural area,and its the privately owned propertys that are the problem!people in social housing can be evicted for antisocial behaviour and so darent cause too much mayhem! the 'home owners' see them selves as elite and untouchable with a 'you cant evict me its MINE' attitude.
to steriotype social housing occupants as neighbours from hell is as ignorant as saying all blacks are criminals!

[Piglet]

Ahem,

we actually have them but in my defence they are only used in anger twice a year and the neighbours are around for the party anyway. They are also used when I am working in the garden but are on very low so that I can listen to the radio.

Not everybody is a dick when it comes to respecting neighbours.

[lizzie]

I am known for my love of loud music but I never do that in the house or back yard. If I want to play some music I use my mp3 player with earphones. I also drive with the car cd player on and the windows up. My daughter plays electric guitar but only with earphones on.

I wouldn't dream of disturbing my neighbours. There are a lot of young babies/kiddies where I live so it wouldn't be fair. It's worse when there's a match on with around 20,000 people making their way to and from either ground, all the cars and coaches plus the pub chucking out time. The teenage girls are a pain in the neck too.

I don't mind if people have music on but it should be switched off at a reasonable hour. It's only courteous

[Chantal]

Hi Piglet, I was thinking about your speakers, disguised as rocks if I recall, when I read this thread. Even at your birthday party with every neighbour within half a mile present, your music wasn't that loud.

[Jenny Green]

I have an mp3 player constantly set to radio 4 that I listen to while I garden. It keeps the sound of the neighbours' teenagers' shrieks as they play on their trampoline from annoying me too much.

[peter]

Too true it is not just social housing at fault and I apologise for any implied slur. It was just that was the worst I have personally experienced.

Setting up an "area office" in a past employment on that authorities "sink" estate, where a top floor, low-rise, flat had its balcony doors wide open and that mono-tone Whitney Houston track "I will always love you" on top volume, constant repeat, all day.

On noise, my personal pet hate is the stupid youth in his £6000 little hatchback, with £3000 of body kit and about £5000 worth of stereo, which the fool has to drive with the windows open to prove he has a loud stereo.

Oh and their latest tend of removing the rear silencer box from the exhaust and replacing it wit a baked bean tin.

[Chantal]

And why do the aforementioned youths always have to listen to bass thumping rapping which usually involves a huge amount of profanity? What's wrong with a nice bit of Andy Williams?

[fen not fen]

I had the misfortune to have a set of rowdy neighbours in an otherwise peaceful estate in a lovely rural location. I used to dread sunny weekends as out would come the barbecue, the crates of beer and the hi fi. It wasn't just the music but the drunken shouting that I found very difficult to ignore. The silly thing was that I became hyper sensitive to any noise from them and could not bear to be in my garden. The upside was that I got an allotment to get away from them and throughly enjoyed it.

[lizzie]

I hate R&B and all the music the kids listen to now. It's all crap. Give me a bit of rock n roll or some big band swing anytime.

What I did with some noisey neighbours was this. I'd had enough of their loud music waking me up every night, as had the neighbours so we formed a plan. One Sunday mornaing, nice and early (about 6am) I parked my old car outside their house and put the cd player on.

My old car had a belting cd system in it. Anyway, after a few tracks from Green Day, Deep Purple and Motorhead etc, and a few chosen words from a few of the lads we had no more problems.

Problem neighbours can be removed but everyone has to work together which is what happens in the street where I live.

[lizzie]

Another thing that really gets on my nerves is when the people walk round playing their music off their phone, so everyone can hear it.

Why? What's the point? To show us that they have crap taste?

Turn the bloody thing off so we can all have a bit of peace. Use earphones...... GRRRRRRRRRRRRR


***Lizzie slunks to corner and starts deep breathing exercises ************