Are my neighbours bloody masochists? Or just sadists?

[Kooky]

A lovely warm Sunday evening when everyone has their patio doors open - not only do they make their kid do violin practice but now the trumpet practice has started. I'd hazard a guess he's a beginner at both.

[Sardonicus]

This is time for you and yours to take up didgeridoos, be sure they are atonal in respect to each, and when you all get together in the garden for a recital, do it just before your neighbours usually start their practice.

[daffodil]

Never mind Kooks, you can always turn to the cricket or tennis for alternative entertainment right now

[Kooky]

Neither TV nor music switched on; I was enjoying the peace of a Summer's evening, birds twittering and hooting...ah well the torture seems to be over for this evening, at least.

[Pinklepurr]

Ah, I sympathise Kooky, our neighbour plays one of the chinese violins and practices every second night...(you would think after 4 years she would have got better but er, no) and after she finishes the son does his piano practice...put it this way, he should stick to basketball, at least he gets the ball in 95% of the time...way more than the keys he hits on the piano. Perhaps we can join them all together and drive someone else crazy...

[Dinosaur]

If you add a couple of babies bawling, a couple of dogs yapping, someone playing the pianoforte, close your eyes and imagine yourself back in Singapore

[Bender]

My neighbour in Singapore sang chinese opera karaoke for a few hours each day. Strangely enough, I got used to it.

[Kooky]

Aw, I shouldn't really complain. I do agree with children being encouraged to be creative, artistic, musical.

Just not near my ears.