Debian said:
What you seem to be saying is that anyone who does not fit in with your expectation of a right to cause as much noise as you want to on a Sunday should be tolerant towards you.
Not really - in fact, not at all: it would be more accurate to say that someone mowing the lawn or clipping their hedge (and we have neither hedge nor lawn in our garden) a few doors up the road is hardly a huge problem. And it certainly doesn't stop me enjoying a beer in my garden. And I think I'd sooner live in a society where we tolerated people having the freedom to choose to spend Sunday doing noisy stuff in their gardens than a society where we had to write rules to proscribe it, like the Germans apparently do.
Adscrim makes the point perfectly earlier in the thread: the time when you think everyone should do their noisy garden stuff is when a lot of people are trying to get kids off to sleep. Now, I know you only make half an hour's worth of racket once every six years (or whatever it was), but if everyone took your advice on board, the whole neighbourhood would be using leaf blowers and hedge trimmers and we'd be surrounded by bleary - eyed children in no time at all.
Sunday's a pretty good day - in fact, for many people the only day - to do stuff in the garden, and sometimes this involves noise. I know you think this characterises me as someone who'd sooner disturb my neighbours than eat my dinner, but there we go. It seems a lot more sensible than expecting everyone to make their noise at a time that suits you (and you alone).