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Woken up by man and woman at 5am!.

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I got to sleep relatively quickly last night, and this is from someone who generally takes over an hour to drop off if I am lucky!. Anyhow, I fell asleep around midnight and would have slept through until around 7am. I do need 7-8 hours sleep in order to be at my best, but rarely achieve this. And on the rare occasion when I just might have got 7 hours, I was woken from a deep slumber at 5am by a man and a woman talking loudly further down the street. Feeling incensed I banged loudly on my window, opened the window, waved my fist, and shut it loudly. The young man and woman (students?) looked up, stopped talking, and walked away.

It took me over an hour to fall to sleep again, and I now feel really tired again.

I will be sleeping at my parents tonight, and generally sleep ok there, feeling revived at the start of the week. If I could not stay at their's, I would not be able to function at all.

I have been in my flat a year now, and would like at some point to move into a place where the bedroom does not face the road - like at my parents. I would also like a place that has good sound insulation, and I hate living in a flat. The one I have is better than many, with its own front door and just one neighbour above, but I cannot live with little sleep for ever!. Being on benefits means I have little choice as to where I live, and this makes me feel angry and  negative.

Also I hate change, and other than the noise issues, I like my flat now it has been made 'mine'. I would feel upset if I had to move, but I will have to do this at some point, and right now I just feel angry.

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  • Where I was living until a year ago, one of the main causes of being woken during the night was "milk floats". Because only a few people get milk deliveries nowadays, you don't get one milk company seizing a monopoly, you end up with two or three, even if they only deliver to one or two houses in each street. And they seem to have to do it at ridiculous times like 3am and 5am. And far from these electric vehicles being quiet, and milk in cardboard or plastic containers that shouldn't clink, they have to have a radio on or sound a bell as they go round.

    Another source of night-time noise is someone's car alarm - people who have over sensitive alarms that can be set off by a cat. Or they just want to show off. Or people who have gone away for a night and put their house alarm on without securing everything so the alarm goes off around 11 and keeps up all night.

    A further nuisance that I've been spared but I know a few people who've been caught out. Contract cleaning companies and building repair companies have taken to working very early in the morning or late at night despite there supposingly being bye-laws to prevent it. So someone in my area apparently got woken because someone working on a school opposite them decided to use a pneumatic drill at 4am.

    As for people out in the early hours being noisy its a shame we can no longer empty our chamber pots into the street, as in olden times. Then if someone was noisy at night all you had to do was open the window, shout a brief warning like "garde loo" and hurl the contents of your chamber pot at them? Guess its not permissable nowadays though.

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  • Where I was living until a year ago, one of the main causes of being woken during the night was "milk floats". Because only a few people get milk deliveries nowadays, you don't get one milk company seizing a monopoly, you end up with two or three, even if they only deliver to one or two houses in each street. And they seem to have to do it at ridiculous times like 3am and 5am. And far from these electric vehicles being quiet, and milk in cardboard or plastic containers that shouldn't clink, they have to have a radio on or sound a bell as they go round.

    Another source of night-time noise is someone's car alarm - people who have over sensitive alarms that can be set off by a cat. Or they just want to show off. Or people who have gone away for a night and put their house alarm on without securing everything so the alarm goes off around 11 and keeps up all night.

    A further nuisance that I've been spared but I know a few people who've been caught out. Contract cleaning companies and building repair companies have taken to working very early in the morning or late at night despite there supposingly being bye-laws to prevent it. So someone in my area apparently got woken because someone working on a school opposite them decided to use a pneumatic drill at 4am.

    As for people out in the early hours being noisy its a shame we can no longer empty our chamber pots into the street, as in olden times. Then if someone was noisy at night all you had to do was open the window, shout a brief warning like "garde loo" and hurl the contents of your chamber pot at them? Guess its not permissable nowadays though.

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