I have a neighbour who is a childminder, from 7am every morning there are people coming and going. Their house isn't directly next door or across from me, it's a couple of houses down and across the street.

My issue is, the childminder greets her clients so loudly each morning it wakes me up, she screeches Good Morning in a drawn out and high pitched voice so loudly. This isn't her normal voice and is put on for each child and parent when they arrive.

There are times she has conversations with the parents so loudly on the doorstep that I could easily join in. Some parents allow their children to run up the road to the childminder's house screaming ar the top of their lungs, as if their on the school playing field at lunch time.

She has run her business from her home since before we moved here. I don't ever remember it being noisy the first few years of us living here but the past 2 years has been horrific and I'm at the point where I want to stick my head out of the window some mornings and shout at them to shut up!

I have no issue with the normal sounds of people going about their day to day lives, I have no issues with the sounds that come from the garden when the children are playing during the day. It's just the hour each morning which turns into a circus.

I work late and don't tend to wake up until 7.30-8.30am and I have to have my window open when I sleep, which I feel I'm entitled to in my own home.

The childminder just seems oblivious to how noisy she is as she isn't just noisy when in work mode. There's times she's been in the street having a conversation on the phone at 6am and I can hear every word of the conversation, or she comes home late and is chatting away as if it's the middle of the day.

Am I being unreasonable having a friendly chat with her about the noise levels?