Rural Life

If you choose to live in the country near a farm try to live near an organic farm. The worst you will get is the smell of the 'muck' as described by Mike.

What is worse is to be near a conventional farm when they are spraying chemicals. Out running one morning we were enveloped by a noxious cloud carried by the breeze along the country road. No doubt the farmer should not have been spraying on a breezy day but needs must I suppose.

Mike

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Originally posted by BigH47:

"dodging Highwaymen" before some one else says it.

747s whilst wearing ear defenders more like!

Jono

I'm also fortunate enough to reside in the country and although there are a few downsides, I wouldn't wish to live anywhere else.

The thing that makes our lives even more pleasant is that the inhabitants of our little hamlet are very friendly with the local farmer and his family. We see how hard they toil and understand the workings of the farm, they can relate to those whose employment is some distance away and need to get up at some ungodly hour to go to work, so they are considerate. If anyone wants a stump pulled up or needs some manure, the farmer will happily help us out (shame he's not allowed to sell us his pork or lamb directly any more...). Likewise, us lot, being what you might classify as "Professional" types, have given the farmer advice on a whole range of things.

I have met farmers in the past who regard all "Townies" as idiots who shouldn't be living in their vicinity, and "Townies" who look down their noses at the grubby famers who have the temerity to disturb their bucolic idyll.

It's wonderful what a bit of tolerance and understanding can do. Mind you, I've also had a day's planned outdoor activity ruined by 'orrible niffs. And don't mention the flies!

George,your post seems to be out of character of late ,are you going through a bad patch.

EastEnders vs The Archers, not an edifying thought...

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Originally posted by Jono 13:

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Originally posted by BigH47:

"dodging Highwaymen" before some one else says it.

747s whilst wearing ear defenders more like!

Jono

Not when I was 5, the noisiest thing was a Super Constellation or Stratocruiser. Back then with only 1 Terminal, there was still miles of green land between Hounslow and Heathrow.
For those of a tender age :-
Stratocaster, a re-bodied Superfortress.One of the ugliest planes.

Super Constellation, one of the prettiest.

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Stratocaster

Built by Boeing or Fender

Obviously that should read Stratocruiser.

I got it right once.

oh no not bloody plane spotters.

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Originally posted by 151:
oh no not bloody plane spotters.

At least I never got arrested in a foreign country like a mate of mine.

Chaps

So there we have it, which is the dullest, a chat about rural pongs or plane spotting.

The next question is ... can it get any worse.

Should we be asking this question in case they take it has a challenge.

Regards

Mick

MP
If you don't like, don't read it, don't comment on it just FO.

Did someone make you a NAIM forum policeman?

Like we all were really spell bound about your bycicle, your several houses, etc etc that you mentioned a couple of hundred times.
Your drivel may vary.

oh no not another punch-up.

If we don't like airplanes (I love em especially the ones with proper engines)
If we don't like bicycles (my front tyre (tire) goes flat)
BigH47 has a good solution

Compost heaps, smelly farms & organic recycling are very interesting.

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Compost heaps, smelly farms & organic recycling are very interesting

Right and as Rambling Syd Rumpo said "The answer lies in the soil"

Me dearios.

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Compost heaps, smelly farms & organic recycling are very interesting

Well yes they are interesting if you are a worm or a bloody dung beetle, but to the rest of us, they are just a heap of decomposing veg and rather dull.

Regards

Mick

Speaking for everyone again, you just can't get it can you, see it's just your opinion, you are not a spokesman for the masses.

MP - As the elected spokesman for the masses can you please inform the membership that they should overcome the urge to write or reply when there is nothing to reply to or no point in writing something controversial for the sake of it. Its especially futile when the line in question was a light-hearted throwaway intending to brighten readers lives.

I realise you know & care even less than sweet FA about the subject, but please note that a dung beetle (scarab beetle) name is derived from its collection of fresh herbivore animal dung. It shapes the dung into a ball considerably larger than itself & rolls it some distance to a place where it buries it & lays its egg in. It does not reside in or around compost heaps.

Chaps

You should overcome the urge to write or reply when there is nothing to reply to or no point in writing something controversial for the sake of it. Its especially futile when the line in question was a light-hearted throwaway intending to brighten the lives of our duller readers.

Regards

Mick

Seconded

I used to read Organic Gardening magazine, compost should not smell unless it's mainly dung. I've not been able to do a complete organic garden but good compost is like black gold. Plants do so well with it. And good for you to take the effort to grow your own produce. It is hard work, I know as a I was a landscaper for many years, your body is all the better for it.

Too many people here buy a house and let the gardener do it! My parents didn't have gardeners or maids, we did it all. I was the slave behind the mower at 13. I just wish they'd let me pick plants in the catalog, we could have had a much prettier place outside Philly.