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Original poster

to ask the farmer....

12 replies

TandB · 09/08/2012 20:42

...who has just fertilised the field which backs onto our garden, to come and stand behind me, fanning me with lavender-scented palm-fronds so that I can sit out in this clement weather, rather than skulk behind closed windows with a clothes-peg on my nose.

Obviously it would be most unreasonable to ask him not to do it again, but seeing how nice the weather is, surely it would be entirely acceptable to ask him to come down here and waft the unpleasant scent away from my delicate nasal pasages?

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lovebunny · 09/08/2012 20:43

yes, he should do that. and ply you with your cold drink of choice to keep you sweet...

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 09/08/2012 20:43

YANBU at all. There are so few good drying days, and everything stinks of manure.

Oh well, s'pose that's the price we pay for our food.

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TandB · 09/08/2012 20:44

I think so.

And maybe he could keep running in and out with my laptop and pressing "post" and "refresh" so that I can keep up with MN despite broadband not quite reaching into the garden.

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ColourMeWithChaos · 09/08/2012 20:45

worrying that DH has just fertilised one of our fields that backs onto gardens and that means you could be a neighbour

I don't smell most fertilisers anymore cause I'm so used to the smell but can remember how horrible some of them are!

But I do know have a mental image of my DH in full farmer gear waving lavender in our neighbour's face.

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TandB · 09/08/2012 20:46

Fortunately he manured late in the afternoon so the drying is fine. It's just my nasal sensibilities that are the problem now.

He is a very nice man, so I am sure he wouldn't mind obliging.

Now would it be unreasonable to get DS1 (3) out of bed and send him down the road to the farm to make the request for me? He seems to have less of an issue with stench judging from the amount of time he is prepared to spend peering into the toilet at his own poo.

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Original poster
TandB · 09/08/2012 20:47

Colourmewithchaos - does your village begin with an E?

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skateboarder · 09/08/2012 20:56

Good luck with that Grin

ColourMeWithChaos · 09/08/2012 21:03

No - and only one of the neighbours of that field have young DC and they are all girls :)

What is it with small boys and peeing at poo! My DS (3) loves aiming at poo in the toilet although with my DSs sometimes questionable toilet manners it may not be his own

RightBuggerforit · 09/08/2012 21:03

Erm... maybe don't buy/rent a house next to a farm? There are lots of nice houses in towns and cities and you won't smell the manure from there probably.

McHappyPants2012 · 09/08/2012 21:06

Op get a very long Internet cable under £5 on eBay they you can MN out your garden with no problems.

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TandB · 09/08/2012 21:07

Rightbuggerforit - you do realise that I'm probably not going to do the things I have suggested in this thread, right?!

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travellingwilbury · 09/08/2012 21:15

You need one of those fetching nose pegs the synchronized swimmers have . All will be well then and you will look lovely .

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