Living with noisy neighbours can be a nightmare at the best of times, but if you're already struggling with getting enough sleep without your neighbours keeping you awake, then the sound of thumping party music can be an added stress that you really don't need.
Unfortunately, that's what one mum-of-two has been dealing with after she complained that her neighbours began throwing "some kind of party" at 11 pm on Thursday night.
The woman said sleep is already "precious" to her as she has two young children who exhaust her, so when her neighbours began playing loud music and "jumping up and down" in the middle of the night, she was seething.
In a post on Mumsnet, she ranted: "My neighbours appear to be starting some kind of party and are singing (screaming), playing loud music and jumping up and down. It sounds like lots of people. They started this at 11 pm. It's Thursday.
"I was already asleep (I have a three-month-old and a two-year-old so sleep is a precious, precious thing) and it's been loud enough to wake me up and I now can't get back to sleep. I understand that in terraced housing you expect some noise and it's not their fault that I have young kids and get no sleep, but it's gone midnight midweek.
"I do not need to hear every word of Mambo No 5 and Justin Bieber."
The woman said she was considering going round to her neighbour's house to get them to turn their music down, before jokingly adding she was so frustrated she could "burn their house to the ground", although she quipped: "Possibly a risky move in a terrace."
She added: "Maybe I've just become a grumpy old woman and hate the sound of young people having fun."
Commenters on the post were quick to sympathise with the mum, as one said: "It sounds horrific, far more than 'some noise'. They should not be making their neighbours listen to their choice of music in the middle of the night."
And another added: "They sound like absolute d***s."
In a later post, the mum revealed her husband went round and knocked on the neighbours' door, to which they immediately turned the music off and "went quiet".
She wrote: "My husband has now been round, very odd, they didn't answer the door so he just knocked really loudly and repeatedly and the music stopped, everyone went quiet, blinds were twitched but no one appeared. Either way, it seems to have worked for now."
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