I’m really lucky not to live next door to noisy neighbours at the moment, but it’s happened in the past. I don’t expect neighbours to be silent like some people do – if you’re living in a semi detached or a flat then that’s the price you pay for cheaper homes – but some common decency would be nice.

For example, in my last house there was a guy next door who used to play music very loudly. I have no problem with that during the day – everyone does it – but he played it at full volume most nights at around 1am. I guess that he came back from the pub and put the music on, without thinking that the houses either side of him might be trying to sleep.

I was living with a few other people at the time, and we decided he might just not realise, so we went and asked him to keep it down after midnight. That seemed to work for a while, only for him to start playing it again a few weeks later. Luckily, he didn’t live there for that long so we didn’t have to put up with it, but he was a pretty bad neighbour.

With that said, I know there are definitely a lot worse. What’s your worst neighbour story? I’m sure you can beat mine.