Complaining about Village life?

Thanks @theInebriati - if you don’t mind me asking is there a set time when this spreading happens or does it depend on wind /temperature? We would like to have a big outdoor party at the end of next August but don’t want to risk it coinciding with the overwhelming smell of poo in the air!

Oh this sort of comment on our village FB group really ticks me off too.😡
My usual polite response is something along the lines of if you don’t like it get back to the town you came from, because it generally is from incomers who don’t have any idea about the countryside. Incomers who understand & respect the countryside, farmers & village life are very welcome.🙂

Yes, in some places the sewage companies will sell farmers a tanker load for the cost of delivery, and its liquid so its easy to spread.

I would never dream of complaining about it but wow the fertiliser spreading smell has been horrendous in the past couple of years, really vile. Is it true that in some cases human excrement is being used? Certainly smells like it!

Actually shooting rights are a lot more complicated than that.

They need permission to shoot on your land. You needed to speak to them or they can have their gun license removed.

They ring the hour.

We live in a village which is known (globally) for its Imperial War Museum…. which also has an active airfield and is renowned for its spectacular air shows. People move here and then complain about noisy aircraft and the dangers of air displays. Absolutely incredible (and also amazingly annoying!).

So they aren’t ringing at all hours then, just for a few hours in the evening.

I think you'll find the bell ringers have other things to do during the day, such as working, childcare, etc. It's pretty common for clubs & societies to do things in the evening as that's when they have their free time, with the added advantage of going to the village pub afterwards (to help keep the pub open!!).

I’ve lived in the countryside for 17 years. Each year around September I’ve noticed the smell of muck spreading. Never had a problem with it, and as one poster said on here “where do we think food comes from?”

HOWEVER, this season, the local farmer seems to be using a different type of fertiliser. It is so, so, so bad. I cannot describe how bad it smells. It makes me and my family gag, and there have been days were we have had to stay in. The CIA should use it in interrogations.

Lots of other people in the village have the same problem. It may because the high price of fertiliser post pandemic/ Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the farmer has substituted for something cheaper that is much less neighbour friendly.

Whilst appreciating farmers have to make a living, I do think we have a right to complain a bit about that

Why are church bells ringing at all hours? Is bell ringing the only entertainment or social group?

This reminds of the time when our village bulldozed an ancient woodland and built a new build estate on it.

I wasn't against it. Many were, but I appreciate we need to provide people with housing and sometimes it means having to do this. It was done relatively sympathetically, and half the woodland was still left standing.

However, it attracted former Londoners seeking a quiet countryside lifestyle. These Londoners though had a right old fit when the remaining woodland opposite their nice new estate was cut down. Even accosting and verbally abusing the men carrying out the tree surgery work.

Local Facebook groups were overun with:
I moved here for the views!
I moved here for a quiet life, not more ugly houses and people!
I suppose this is all being chopped down to make way for a hideous new build estate! I don't want to look at that!
We weren't consulted about this! How dare they!
This is ruining my peaceful enjoyment of the countryside!
Disgusting!
The dust is making my expensive bifolding windows dirty!
Blah blah blah....

The remaining ancient woodland wasn't being chopped down for a new estate. It was being coppiced. A practice carried out for hundreds of years to maintain the health and variety of species in that woodland. And the new build estate these angered Londoners are living on is literally called Coppice Lane, because it overlooks this beautiful woodland that is coppiced at regular intervals.

The hypocrisy and entitlement was staggering.

"I'm fine if half an ancient woodland is cleared to make way for my nice new fancy countryside home, but if anyone else wants to do the same (even though that's not what's happening) I'm gonna lose my shit and abuse the workmen and create lots of outraged Facebook posts and start a petition to have it stopped!"

Is this for real? Amazing.

We had a person moaning our lane doesn't have streetlights or pavements. IIt doesn't have pavements, but it does have streetlights.

Local village green where cattle are allowed to graze during the summer months as they have done for years - village Facebook page had people complaining that the farmer didn’t pick up the cow pats after the cows 🤦🏼‍♀️

@LadyBird1973, it doesn't work that way. You're casting around for excuses to get what you want. This is a common one. Privileged older generations make up nonsense and Tory politicians use it to keep shutting down house-building for everyone else.

I live in a small semi-rural town with a Tory MP and Tory Council. In the last 5 years they have passed applications for 4000+ new houses on green field sites. The developers always minimise the affordable homes provision and get it removed if they can, they ignore planning conditions (on one new estate recently they ripped out an ancient hedegrow against a condition that it be left alone, and just ignored a condition that they were to fund a junction improvement.

I am 61, still paying a mortgage and have never voted fucking Tory - but it's a myth that the Tories are stopping houses getting built - they are ensuring the permanent loss of productive farmland (because it is cheaper and easier for the developers) to estates of 4/5 bed houses.

I also live somewhere rural, I admit I have a moan to my husband sometimes about the muck spreading lol but it's one of those things. I love the sound of church bells, it disgusts me when I hear people complain about them , don't move near a church!! It was there way before you were mate. why do people feel the need to complain do they think the country and all things related will change for them, just mental

I am lucky enough to live in a fairly rural area and have a horse. He is kept at a local livery yard…….very recently a house 2 minutes down the road from said livery yard was sold. New couple moved in and as I was riding down the road (unfortunately we have to use a couple of roads to get to the bridleways) my horse had to answer the call of nature on the road in front of their house. The new owners of the house were outside and the man was absolutely furious that my horse had left a No 2 outside his drive……….he wanted to know when I was coming back to collect it and/or if I was going to get off and remove it immediately. When I said no he decided he was going to report me to the Police and the local Council. God forbid what he is going to do when it gets to muck spreading season and the whole area reeks in a two mile radius!!!! And please no horse hating replies!!!

People need places to live. As the population increases, so will the size of villages, towns and cities. I don't think this is a left or right wing issue, except that more better off, retired people vote Conservative. Nobody likes having things built next to them- we all want a supermarket, but built next to someone else. Just not us.

@caffelattetogo i don’t live near the beach. But about twenty seagulls have made their home here as someone keeps feeding them. The noise in the morning is awful. The mess as well.

We live in a village and it’s a nightmare! We currently have Onion Manure (don’t ask) and it stinks but every year they do it and all the new kids on the block moan about it.

We live by the sea and there are lots of complaints about seagull noise. What do people expect?

Because they then fly tip the stuff they don't want

@DustyLee123 you have just made me laugh out loud….. calling the police over the farmer with his gun…. I was not brought up rurally but I have adapted to it over the last 40 years, although I still do not like plucking, gutting and cleaning shot from game birds…. Never done it. Rural living really is different.

That's a good idea about the bee keepers app, thanks