Another retune?

lid wrote:

Also many who move to the country start moaning about farmyard smells,
cocks crowing, church bells, mud on roads...

It's ridiculous. They move out here and kick up a fuss about a bit of a
whiff of pig slurry. How do they think their food could be grown without
manure?

We had a bloke build a thing forty foot high from scaffold tubes. He
clad it with tarps. All to keep the smell out. Of course it didn't work.
The wind swirls round and the smells get everywhere. Then there was a
bit of a blow and the whole lot ended up three fields away.

Bill

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:41:43 +0100
lid wrote:

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:00:41 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

wrote:

Their simple alternative is to move to a surburban area and
complain about pollution /crime /lack of parking.
and traffic jams, and schools full of kids who don't speak English
so your kids get a poor deal, and crowded pavements, and nightmarish
pushing and shoving on public transport, and graffiti, and people
not speaking to their neighbours.

Very true.
Also many who move to the country start moaning about farmyard smells,
cocks crowing, church bells,

That was my favourite one. I think the council should have told him
where to go, instead of telling the church to mute its bells.
--
Davey.

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

It's ridiculous. They move out here and kick up a fuss about a bit of a
whiff of pig slurry. How do they think their food could be grown without
manure?

Perhaps we could lay down some pipelines and export our pure city air
out to the countryside. For a fee of course.

-- Richard

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:21:50 +0000 (UTC),
(Richard Tobin) wrote:

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

It's ridiculous. They move out here and kick up a fuss about a bit of a
whiff of pig slurry. How do they think their food could be grown without
manure?

Perhaps we could lay down some pipelines and export our pure city air
out to the countryside. For a fee of course.

I take it you don't live anywhere near Westminster then?

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:36:02 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:54:57 +0100, Davey
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:41:43 +0100
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:00:41 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

wrote:

Their simple alternative is to move to a surburban area and
complain about pollution /crime /lack of parking.
and traffic jams, and schools full of kids who don't speak English
so your kids get a poor deal, and crowded pavements, and nightmarish
pushing and shoving on public transport, and graffiti, and people
not speaking to their neighbours.

Very true.
Also many who move to the country start moaning about farmyard smells,
cocks crowing, church bells,

That was my favourite one. I think the council should have told him
where to go, instead of telling the church to mute its bells.

There are local residents who don't like their sleep being disturbed
by church bells too. It's not just newcomers.

If they/you have grown up next to them, surely you became habituated?

I lived for a while under an airport flightpath and soon got used to
flights coming in early in the morning.

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:36:02 +0100
Martin wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:54:57 +0100, Davey
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:41:43 +0100
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:00:41 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

wrote:

Their simple alternative is to move to a surburban area and
complain about pollution /crime /lack of parking.
and traffic jams, and schools full of kids who don't speak English
so your kids get a poor deal, and crowded pavements, and
nightmarish pushing and shoving on public transport, and
graffiti, and people not speaking to their neighbours.

Very true.
Also many who move to the country start moaning about farmyard
smells, cocks crowing, church bells,

That was my favourite one. I think the council should have told him
where to go, instead of telling the church to mute its bells.

There are local residents who don't like their sleep being disturbed
by church bells too. It's not just newcomers.

Maybe, but this particular recent case was specifically incomers, and
the bells concerned were the clock chimes. Nobody else had any problem
with them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-newcomer.html
And anyway, I consider that the sound of church bells is part of being
in the country, so should be tolerated. Even if done as Church Bell
Ringing, it only happens on specific days at specific times. If you
don't want to hear them, go to the pub.
--
Davey.

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:20:12 +0100
lid wrote:

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:36:02 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:54:57 +0100, Davey
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:41:43 +0100
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:00:41 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

wrote:

Their simple alternative is to move to a surburban area and
complain about pollution /crime /lack of parking.
and traffic jams, and schools full of kids who don't speak
English so your kids get a poor deal, and crowded pavements, and
nightmarish pushing and shoving on public transport, and
graffiti, and people not speaking to their neighbours.

Very true.
Also many who move to the country start moaning about farmyard
smells, cocks crowing, church bells,

That was my favourite one. I think the council should have told him
where to go, instead of telling the church to mute its bells.

There are local residents who don't like their sleep being disturbed
by church bells too. It's not just newcomers.

If they/you have grown up next to them, surely you became habituated?

I lived for a while under an airport flightpath and soon got used to
flights coming in early in the morning.

Agreed. I grew up in a house with the Underground at the bottom of the
garden, overground at that point, and when we moved away, I wondered
where the trains had gone to, as far as I was concerned, they were
part of our life.
--
Davey.

wrote in message
...
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:36:02 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:54:57 +0100, Davey
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:41:43 +0100
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:00:41 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

wrote:

Their simple alternative is to move to a surburban area and
complain about pollution /crime /lack of parking.
and traffic jams, and schools full of kids who don't speak English
so your kids get a poor deal, and crowded pavements, and nightmarish
pushing and shoving on public transport, and graffiti, and people
not speaking to their neighbours.

Very true.
Also many who move to the country start moaning about farmyard smells,
cocks crowing, church bells,

That was my favourite one. I think the council should have told him
where to go, instead of telling the church to mute its bells.

There are local residents who don't like their sleep being disturbed
by church bells too. It's not just newcomers.

If they/you have grown up next to them, surely you became habituated?

I lived for a while under an airport flightpath and soon got used to
flights coming in early in the morning.

I didn't.

After 8 years of still be woken up at 5:30 in the morning I decided that I
had to move.

Such a shame, nicest house that I ever owned

tim

Davey wrote:
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:36:02 +0100
Martin wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:54:57 +0100, Davey
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:41:43 +0100
lid wrote:

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:00:41 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

lid wrote:

Their simple alternative is to move to a surburban area and
complain about pollution /crime /lack of parking.
and traffic jams, and schools full of kids who don't speak English
so your kids get a poor deal, and crowded pavements, and
nightmarish pushing and shoving on public transport, and
graffiti, and people not speaking to their neighbours.

Very true.
Also many who move to the country start moaning about farmyard
smells, cocks crowing, church bells,

That was my favourite one. I think the council should have told him
where to go, instead of telling the church to mute its bells.

There are local residents who don't like their sleep being disturbed
by church bells too. It's not just newcomers.

Maybe, but this particular recent case was specifically incomers, and
the bells concerned were the clock chimes. Nobody else had any problem
with them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-newcomer.html
And anyway, I consider that the sound of church bells is part of being
in the country, so should be tolerated. Even if done as Church Bell
Ringing, it only happens on specific days at specific times. If you
don't want to hear them, go to the pub.

What, every quarter of an hour?

In article , Davey
writes
And anyway, I consider that the sound of church bells is part of being
in the country

and of being in the city - isn't being born within hearing distance of
Bow bells the definition of one long established city type?
--
Kennedy