#24019
Sir Humphrey
Strataguru

    Many years ago my immediate neighbour, with whom I share a party wall (sorry about the pun), liked to have a serious party. He would have a lot of guests and very loud music.

    He was considerate and a generally nice guy. He talked to his neighbours well in advance. He invited his neighbours. I’m sure he would have been accommodating if anyone close by had some reasonable concern arising from, say, shift work or a medical problem. He only did it infrequently. There was never a problem.

    It would have been different if my neighbour had not been so generally neighbourly and had such parties much more frequently. I think most people liked to have him around to liven things up.