Everyone need good neighbours.

Oh dear I have really put my foot in it!

My neighbours - are the everyday kind of neighbours who have loud voices. We sort of get use to them however they also fly off the handle.

The language is somewhat eye opening! It is not just the kids it is the parent as well. Banging walls, doors, car doors any time day and night, I really mean this.

We put up a 6 foot fence in an effort to stop balls or children coming into garden. For the most part it has worked but have still had things thrown over for the fun of it!

The children are all teenagers so now have raging hormones that have made them twice as bad. Boy when they argue with parent or sibling the only clear words are the swear words and I am afraid to say it is the parent as well. So they have learned by example!

Now it is Summer holidays we have to suffer the music as well, well the bass , thump thump thump. Sit in the garden you can guarantee that a shouting match will start, sometimes with the music as well. Whoopee do! You now have two options sit in garden trying to ignore it or retreat back in the house muttering obscenities or what you would like to do to them.

Yesterday after a very long day and the night before a big shouting session the banging on the wall started - right we banged back on the wall they continued.' OK' I said 'Daughter with me' we went mob handed, I banged and I mean banged on the door.

'Who's that' came the reply 'your neighbour' the retort. Door opens, me 'We have had it up to here' tapping forehead 'with the swearing and now the banging'. Slight pause by neighbour, me oh god now I am going to get it thinking thank goodness daughter is with me.

Neighbour says ' er mm one of the teenagers banging nail in wall' Me Oh hell, now time to grovel 'I do apologise for banging on your door so loudly ....... My daughter steps in and says It has been a very long day for us.

We retreat back to our house, going oh holy crap, can you imagine what they are now saying about us!

Then we go hang on a minute, you can almost push a nail in with your fingers (pre fab bungalow) and the neighbour didn't even acknowledge the swearing bit or even say sorry for any of the noise.

Me thinks must control my temper, think before I act, engage brain before saying anything, take a few deep breathes. Okay I can do that, I am usually a nice person, even tempered, fairly tolerant - hang on just one minute here brain shut up with the platitudes.

Why should I take all this crap, why should things rattle on our walls, I want to sit in my garden and enjoy peace and quiet, not have them running over our drive, dropping litter, the list is just too long.

Maybe they will be quiet now, oh deary no, loud voices already to day, slamming doors, running over our drive. I expect the next real shouting match will start soon. As my neighbours nearby often say 'We don't know how you put up with it, those children are so rude and the parent swearing at her offspring'. The neighbours can always hear the noise as well but in a lesser degree.

How to cope with this, I do not know but I live in hope that they move (not going to happen) kill each other (again a bit excessive) Oh I know suddenly become a normal family that remembers that neighbours have ears and really rather not listen to domestics or even conversations.

Is this going to happen, never, I will wait for the pig to fly over first! Here we go again I am off to find some earplugs :)