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I accessed this thread last night from my phone but couldn't be arsed fiddling about withthe on screen keyboard to respond, so am posting now, about last night:
Picture the scene: 4:15 AM and the party in the house/garden opposite my little street is still in full swing. It's been going since late aft/early evening. Even with doubleglazed windows and the TV on full blast, the noise o fthe party has been pretty much drowning out the tv all evening. It's even worse in the bedroom.
They're clearly having a rollicking good time, and judging from the balloons and the small red marquee, this isn't their usual late night get together, but a much bigger party and probably because of some special occasion. Conseqently I am loath to go round and ask them to turn it down a bit.
By now, (4:15am) they'd been engaged for a couple of hours in guitar led singsongs in the back garden, with ten or twenty people belting out Oasis songs at the tops of their voices, occasionally punctuated by screeches of laughter. Everyone appears to communicate at the tops of their voices and I don't know if it's my imagination, but I think one of the guitars is plugged into an amp.
Usually these late night gatherings fizzle out or move indoors by around 2am. This time it went on til gone 5.
I considered going outside and shouting over the fence to keep it down a bit, but they were clearly having such a good time, I didn't really want to be the downer to that. So I listened to my ipod in bed. I could still hear them, quite loudly over the audioplay, even though I had it on quite loud. By the time I finished that it was around 3:30 and I was too tired to get up, get dressed, and go out.
Somewhere around 4:30 the sound levels dropped a little. Still could hearthe music quite clearly but I think some of them at least had moved indoors.
Not great, but much better, so I tried to sleep. Which I did, for about half an hour before being woken by the sounds of raucous laughter and shouting, and what sounded a little like football terrace chants as the guests were leaving.
So then I couldn't sleep. Probably lay awake for another hour. Knackered, but not sleepy.
So. That's what i was going to post in here this morning, if I hadn't been too tired to work the phone properly.
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