Dawn Chorus

Last night, at about 3, I woke to find TB in the middle of our bed, and downstairs karaokeing to some very loud music, very badly. Not only had they managed to wake Y up (not difficult) and TB (slightly more so), but they'd woken me up (and that's next to impossible).

Y was mad,no other word for it, and was ready to call the police. I dissauded him, and instead made him go downstairs to complain. The response he got was a retort along the lines of "but we've complained about you stepping loudly before". Not at 3 o'bloody'clock in the morning you haven't. Someone in there had the sense to turn the music off at that point, and we thought we'd get back to sleep. No such luck. Within 5 minutes both the music and the singing resumed.

As I was trying to find the number for the local police station, someone from one of the surrounding residences had also taken offence, and was out in the street shouting at them to turn the noise down. Once again a far from perfect response as they shouted out to her "well what song would you like us to play for you?" Again the music went off, but only for a few minutes.

By this point I was calling the police, who helpfully said they didn't deal with such disturbances. They could give me the number for environmental health though, but it took quite some time for them to search for it whilst I was on hold.

So I called environmental health, but by this point environmental health had stopped sending people out to noise-related distubances for the night. Luckily, though, they seemed to lose momentum from that point onwards, and somewhere around the time I fell back to sleep, got bored and stopped singing.

But not before I'd felt I'd missed out on a proper night's sleep.