I'd just like to add this...

About ten minutes after I added the previous post I started to play my guitar, and my parents wanted me to play for them and for about half an hour I played songs on my guitar and we had a really good time singing and laughing... when all of a sudden, the next door neighbour knocks on the door and starts swearing his head off
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"Turn the fucking music down, people have to go to work in the fucking morning" and so on...

I can accept the fact that we were too loud, but I think it's better to be as dignified as you can about it and not swear your head off about it! I mean, all we were doin were singing and laughing.

And the time was only 30 minutes past midnight... it is christmas afterall isn't it?