To ask the farmer up the road to not muck spread?

[Sparklingbrook]

I have a full line of washing out. How inconsiderate.

This thread is v educational. Sewage cake?

at spotlessly clean countryside. The farmer in question goes from field to field spreading a bit of muck all along the country lanes. She might get some on her tyres Kate.

I used to have this problem, but now I have the clean, fresh smelling diesel fumes of a building site instead. I'm so lucky.

KateUnrulyBush

I suggest that you copy the relevant page from the Highway Code about when a motorist comes upon a herd of cattle or flock of sheep on the road. Put it through the driver's window, saying, "I thought you'd like to read this."

We once turned into a bridleway to find a family picnicing right next to a huge pile of human poo waiting to be spread in the field...we didn't have the heart to say anything.

And you haven't lived if you haven't smelt fox poo, preferably on your bed from where the dog attempted to share the 'goodness'!

They could have had a slice of sewage cake Boo.

Mum and dad have a cess pit (no mains sewerage) a nice man comes and sucks all the solid waste out then it gets sprayed on the fields, so wash your potatoes people

I bet they say they are organic too Softly.

You need to watch Come Outside - Sewage, it's on YouTube. Aunty Mabel and Pippin go off to the sewage works to find Pippin's poo. It's very educational and how I learnt about sewage cake...

Pootatoes?

Go ask if you can have some. For your red currant bushes.

That'll make him scratch his head with glee!

Seriously, the year my parents decided to spread muck at the base of all the bushes in their orchard, was the year when
a) I did not play in the garden all summer
b) we made jam, jelly, froze berries for desserts, cordial, wine, liqueur in such large quantities we were busy all autumn and had supplies for the next couple of years
c) mum had to invite family and friends to pick red currants,
d) birds feasted when we took the nets off
d) I ate frozen redcurrants straight from the bushes all winter, I just brushed the snow away.

You need some good muck.

PIL have that system too Softly and their man who "sucks out" the waste from their tank, handles the filthy tube/pipe thing and then pops back into the cab of his tank to eat his sandwiches. All without washing his hands.

He has clearly built up immunity.

We love Aunty Mabel in this house :) It's still on CBeebies every day, today was about marmalade. Haven't seen the sewage episode for a while so it must be coming soon...

:o pootatoes PFCR - great name btw

Have you seen the episode on crisps? It's not considered suitable to be shown these days, but is on YouTube.

Why not suitable Baroness?

DH works on sewage works and has just informed me that it is a pretty regular occurrence to see workers come from deragging sewage pumps (yes he does mean removing sanitary ware etc) and go straight to eating there sandwiches or making brews without visiting a sink first.
Most workers in the industry DO wash first, not all of them are dirty bastards!

I will have a look Baroness but why is it not suitable. Crisps? How bad can it be?

Pretty bad, if they're made from pootatoes.

Funnily enough dd aged 4 commented the other day that the farmers don't think of everyone else when they're putting poo on the fields do they mummy? Err, no ...

Just back from TheYouTube, where I believe the reason is because they believe the Crisps episode of Come Outside promotes obesity

Delighted to have found a secret one anyway Baroness

PC gone mad. Crisps are bad and an educational schools programme cannot be seen to be endorsing them.
I want crisps now. But my toddler finished the last of them yesterday.

A friend's Dad has a farm and they all visit regularly. She very kindly hands down her DC's clothes, they have a lovely smell - persil with a bit of manure.

Oh FGS I have heard it all now!! :o

Well technically they are thinking of us all. They are producing food.

I know it doesnt seem like that though!!

If you live in the country you have to expect these things but the muck these days seems to smell worse than it used to, we also drive past a factory that burns chicken poo for power and that stinks. then again living with dh I am used to it!

I wasn't actually going to do it wanna.