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Pile of s**t left outside my garden

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Lucky08 · 24/07/2020 16:32

So I heard the farmer out the back of the house this morning which is nothing unusual as the garden backs onto open fields. However, later on when I opened the curtains I noticed a huge pile of manure right at the bottom of the garden. We dont have a conventional fence just a wire fence to make the most of the views so the manure is really visible.
Now I'm a city girl so have no idea if this is usual practice, but I have no idea why it's been left at the back of our house when he has a whole field. We dont know the farmer and have never had run ins so as far as I'm aware its not personal but what on earth should I do. Do I leave it and hope ot moves over the weekend or WIBU to go round to the farmer (would send partner as at 36 weeks pregnant everything makes me angry) and ask him to move it and why he chose our house to leave it outside??

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LakieLady · 24/07/2020 17:17

He's probably put it where it's most convenient for him, @MyPersona. And it only smells for a week or two, out in the open the smell wears off really quickly.

rosiejaune · 24/07/2020 18:56

@Beekeeper1

This is an exceptionally busy time of year for farmers, haymaking, second cut silage, cereal harvest is getting in to full swing. Muckspreading is going to be low on their list of priorities currently. And the smell of muck is infinately preferable to the stench of pollution in towns and cities in my view - at least it is a natural organic smell.
It is pollution; just another form of it.

www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/14/muck-spreading-could-be-banned-to-reduce-air-pollution

LakieLady · 24/07/2020 19:23

Lol, the DFLs and UFBs (Up From Brightons) will have to find something else to moan about soon!

makingmammaries · 24/07/2020 19:28

First, that is not a big pile.

Second, he is not obliging you to have just a wire fence. You could have a wooden one. If you want the views, well, sometimes they will involve manure since it’s a working field.

Live and let live. I doubt he put it there specially to wind you up.

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