On 22/06/18 21:39, Steve Walker wrote:
On 22/06/2018 14:42, Brian Gaff wrote:
You do need to be careful as a bloke down the road seems to have taken up
sawing up paving stones as a hobby, normally on a warm summers afternoon.
Â* Brian

Our next-door neighbour and his previous wife used to have poker parties
on Thursday nights. In the summer this meant they were drunkenly
shouting and laughing 'til 6:30 in the morning, next to open French
doors, right near our open bedroom window ... and I was usually getting
up at 7:45 for work!

One Friday, I'd booked the day off and planned to do some diy, but at
8:00 I started cutting up some steel with an angle grinder, right in the
corner of the garden nearest their bedroom window. I kept it up for an
hour or more.

The poker parties (or at least the noise from them) stopped after that.

SteveW

I used to rent half of a pair of back to back cottages on teh Fens.
Isolated or what. At one time te other half waqs let to a couple of
squaddies..just back from Iraq.

They decided to have a party nect to my bedroom. THis was in an
extension buoilt out the cnback and had a commeon loft space. I could
hear everyu word.

At 3 a.m. I was fed up, so, grabbing half a dozen airbombs from last
years November 5th I slunk outside stark naked into the summer night,
and planted all of them pointing directly over the house, lit them and
scampered back to bed.

I guess being in a war makes you nervous of loud noises.

But nothing was ever said to ne directly and the "WTF? Are we under
attack? " from the drunken squaddies was music to my ears.

The party stopped and the never bothered me with noise again.

--
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have
guns, why should we let them have ideas?

Josef Stalin