Working from home (flat) and neighbours

How are you getting on with this? Just thought I'd reply as it looks like everyone else is scratching their heads on this one too.

I've had plenty of awful neighbours in my time, so you have my sympathy. Are they at all approachable? Without divulging what you do but saying you often need to concentrate so could they stop doing what it is..well would polite reasoning/gentle request to be a bit more considerate work? The trouble with getting any authorities involved is retaliation, if they are that way inclined... hopefully this has sorted itself by now..

Things are still a little tense, but perhaps not as bad as they were, at least I hope not. I'd really like an opportunity to explain a bit more what I do, and how complex it can be, because why should I expect them to understand otherwise, but neighbour wasn't prepared to listen last time. The situation basically was that they arranged for some major - noisy - work to be done over a (long) weekend which just coincided with me having 2 major deadlines either side of the same weekend. Unfortunate, but it happens. Even more unfortunate was to suddenly find out that, because I was working from home, I effectively had 3 days less to get the jobs done in than I'd thought, or had to move myself elsewhere to get the work done. Not easy to rejig your work schedule with that little notice :(

Thanks for the moral support, anyway.