A woman took to Mumsnet to confess that she and her children were the 'noisy neighbours' in a rural village. However, she has asked online users if she's being unreasonable allowing her children to have friends over in the garden during the summer evenings.
On the 'am I being unreasonable thread', she wrote: "I recently moved to a new area with my adult children, a detached house in five acres, I do have two neighbours quite close to my house. My kids are sociable and keen to make friends in [the] rural area. They went to the local village pub and invited three to four people back to our house (I didn't hear anything, it's a Georgian house and the walls are thick). They were sitting outside in the courtyard singing local folk songs and chatting.
"This evening my neighbour came round to complain about the noise of singing and chatting after midnight on Friday. I apologised, said my kids were perhaps a bit overzealous and keen to make friends and maybe got carried away on a summer's evening on this one occasion and that I would speak to them and tell them to be mindful of our neighbours. Do I tell my kids they can't have people back after the pub, am I being unreasonable? Is what they did unacceptable as a one off?
