Neighbour finds our christmas lights "annoying"...

busiscoming2

bumpmakesfour - I have pm'd you a photo.

Bumpmakesfour

busiscoming2 wrote: »

bumpmakesfour - I have pm'd you a photo.

Just saw it..I lovelove it! Here's to christmas lights! :beer:

mrcow

I reckon she's picking on you because you're the easier target.

She probably knows all the other lights are going on later this week and is getting in on you because she's frustrated and thinks that you're nice enough to cop a moan. Maybe she knows you better than any of her other neighbours?

Maybe she's also hoping that you'll pass the moan onto the other neighbours thereby releasing her frustrations without doing the dirty work herself iyswim?

victory

I remember a neighbour had a back garden light and it was so poweful that closing the curtains did nothing, it was like a light tower:rotfl: we had to tell them, they huffed and puffed but we too k then in the house to show them and they were amazed how light it was, turns out they had a lightbulb so powerful that boats could have found their way back to port:rotfl: they got a lower one and job done:D

As for your xmas lights, I have seen a few doors down from me on the other side much much more, hardly can see any brick and they also have the sleigh and the snowman and other bits and pieces on the grass infront of their house, not sure what the neighbours direct opposite think to it but it is a huge display, when you come round the corner that is the first thing you see:D

Just make sure it does not escalate, go over have a chat, wish her merry xmas and when they go on pop into her house and see what she sees, she may be right.

dizziblonde

I personally hate all but the icicle lights - there's one house round the corner from us who have blue lights hanging from their tree that are meant to look like icicles but unfortunately look really really like mens' doo-dahs and once you see it you can't unsee it - I'm not sure that having their house mentally dubbed the "widdler tree house" is quite what they intended for the festive season... another one has those blue lights (they're my personal pet) set to the really really annoying flashing frequency that's very very distracting when you're driving past... and we also have a pair of houses that have an inflatable Homer and Marge Simpson in santa hats (they've not gone up yet).

They're ignoreable since they're on the street round the corner but if they were shining right into my house and I was being forced to adapt how I live or face a glowing Santa staring me in the face night after night I think I'd get annoyed too to be honest. Not that owt will be done - the selfish "it's for the kidzzzzzzzzzzz" brigade are yelling in force. Could well be that just moving one of the characters would mean it wasn't shining right into her house, or shining right behind her TV screen or something - something easily sorted out - but nope, the usuals are out on here with rights rights rights, it's Christmassssssssss, oh she's miserable because she's mentioned something grating on her for seven years and we get the drip-feed of additional information as the thread wasn't going right the OP's way straight away.

Mind you - I live in a street where the neighbours generally talk to each other - amazing what a difference that makes... if someone's doing DIY at what they might think is a perfectly reasonable time of day, but it's causing bother to someone next door who works nightshifts - we talk and work out a compromise rather than just "I'm in the right - tough" - things like that that make all the difference. If our neighbour's lights he was putting up the other day in his tree outside shone into our house - I'm sure he'd move them if we mentioned it - same as if we were doing something that was bothering him... surprisingly it makes this place a nice place to live in that kind of TWO-SIDED consideration (instead of the usual "me me me" crowd on here).

picnmix

Bah Humbug!

Am now going to leave the house and go and get some gutter clips for my deccies, have already got my wreath up and the outside lights will now go up this afternoon. Around the top of the house and in the bay tree's on the path.

I love Xmas, and the run up to it is great, I get a really warm feeling after a real piggy day at work when driving home and see all the lights on peoples houses. My kiddies give squeals of joy when we drive past a decorated house so keep the lights up and enjoy the festive season.

I really expected to see a version of "National Lampoon" standards before you posted your pic!

Padstow

Bumpmakesfour wrote: »

We can see the downstairs lights in the living room as they are hanging icicles and as the tree is up we don't draw the curtains.From upstairs we can't see the lights to be fair as they outline the top of the house but we can see the santa and others from the house yep x

What has the tree being up, got to do with drawing the curtains? Or is the tree in the garden?

withabix

Whatever you may think about other people not liking your Xmas lights, such things ARE a Statutory Light Nuisance under various Acts.

Lighting your house up like Blackpool Illuminations is selfish and inconsiderate if they cause a light nuisance to a neighbour.

Why not fill your living room up with these lights instead? Then you might see what a nuisance they are!!!!

(Although Bumpmakesfour's lights aren't over the top, they may still be causing a light nuisance.)

Comyface

I lurve this one!

aliasojo

Padstow wrote: »

What has the tree being up, got to do with drawing the curtains? Or is the tree in the garden?

Maybe it's in front of the window and it's not so easy to draw the curtains?

Just guessing tho'.