People living in the countryside moaning about rural life

[SuePreemly]

I live in a village. New housing estates have gone in recently. Since then we've had complaints on the local FB page about:

Horse poo on roads
Crow scarers in the field being loud
Slurry smells
Dust during combine season

What on earth do people who move into a rural village surrounded by fields expect?

They're always on about having "consideration for others" on their posts, whilst showing none to the place and people whose work involves it 🥴

I have never heard of any route being called 'road and pavement in one' - not in a rural setting. I've heard of those urban areas which don't clearly delineate where cars and people are meant to be, the aim being that everyone's very, very careful.

Where I live, we have pavements or just roads w/o pavements.

There are different types of byways. Ours allows pedestrians, cyclists, horses and motorised vehicles. Some just allow pedestrians. They are coloured differently on maps and signposts.
In our case the byway is a shared route for everyone there is no separate pavement or road.

I wonder of it might be like in Japan where the walkway for people is just the edge of the road but delineated by a painted line, like a cycle path, rather than a raised pavement.

There is no reason to change reality just because a few silly people are squeamish about the natural world. Artificially reproducing something that already exists, on a huge scale, is the very definition of wasteful and is contraindicated in a world of dwindling resources.

It isn't natural. I think it's about people viewing animals as objects, so far as they grow food in their shit and eat the linings of their intestines and think it's normal

Byways that allow pedestrians, cycles, horses and motorised vehicles are not separated, everyone uses the shared space.

The other pitfall of them not being roads is they only have to be maintained to a standard to allow a horse and cart and therefore look like potholed tracks. It does slow down everyone except delivery drivers.

near me there’s some accidental parts sort of like that, where there are multiple large driveways together so dropped kerb. It’s single lane due to parked cars on one side.
people continue to use it as a road regardless of pedestrians. They push the pedestrians into the driveways or to stop.
if you, as the driver give way to another car as you refuse to drive on the pavement. People behind get irate and verbally abuse you. I saw a young boy gave an exceptionally near miss on a dark day once.

id imagine it would be like that in Britain.

So you’re happy to use human waste as fertiliser?

Of course it’s natural. It’s how plants grew on this earth for centuries before humans became involved in anything. Sitting in animal shit is an important part of the cycle of some plants, like berries that get eaten and pooed out.

Maybe. I can see that working well (not) down our little lanes!

Plants have grown in shit since time immemorial.
And omnivores have eaten other animals, also since time immemorial.

So both things are not only normal but natural.

It is admittedly not natural to keep cows in during the winter, but that has been done for centuries.

Seriously, Marie, I think you need to acquaint yourself with the natural world. It's gruesome and brutal and filthy, as well as beautiful.

A BOAT? Everything's allowed on that.

To take the heat off the poster it could easily be a byway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byway_(road)

Synonym - are we having trouble with synonyms ?

What is the probability I have spelt that wrong and confused things even more ?

Yes, a BOAT (Byway Open to All Traffic), as opposed to a restricted byway (which don't allow vehicles). That would make sense.

We were once selling our country house.
The viewers asked the following daft questions :

Do they ring bells at the church?

Do they still bury people next door?

Are the cows milked daily and what time?

I can see the road from the house (your route to the London train mate)

Will black cabs come here?

Can you take the cockeral with you?

Please dig over the vegetable garden before you vacate

Can you exorcise the ghost! 😄

Does the gardener cut the grass for nothing?

Is there a white company shop?

Do you get flies?

I'm a dairy farmer's granddaughter, my husband a city boy. Eighteen years on we still laugh our socks off. The eventual buyers had the cleanest Landrover and new Barbours. I wear my late father's with the plant labels handedly left in the pocket. Oh ah.

The vegan talk has reminded me when I, a Scout leader in a village, had a discussion with one of my City counterparts. They were both shocked and a bit appalled when I revealed we regularly had to remove dead, partially eaten animals like squirrels and rabbits, from our field. Because they get killed and eaten by foxes, birds if prey etc and then just.. left.

You really are too funny @marie3e - you think we should all be vegan, but you want your food grown with chemicals????

Here's something which will REALLY disgust you. Where I grew up (on a small holding of about 15 acres) we didn't have "town" sewerage or water. We lived about a mile from our nearest neighbour (our drive was half a mile long). So we had rainwater tanks, and a septic tank.

We had two septic tanks with quite a good filtering system - I think there was an oxidisation process to all the effluent, which eventually purified it into water (not potable, though). The tanks were buried pretty deep in the corner of one of our fields.

Our gardener built quite a large vegetable garden on the patch of land just by the septic tank outflow - this was very fertile land, fertilised by the remains of the naturally-treated and broken down human effluent produced by a family of 7.

We became quite self-sufficient in sweetcorn, strawberries and tomatoes, I remember. They grew beautifully, fertilised by out household waste water and human effluent. We ate very well.

Some people just seem so divorced from the natural world. Even out here in the suburbs we have horses going by, church bells heard in the village (we are on the tube but it is still a village) and yesterday three was a dead bird without a head in the garden. The cycle of life where human and animal and other waste composts down and fertilises the land is in a sense how we are all here - a wonderful process, not something to be disliked. Dirt is part of being human. Apparently even your vaginal bacteria is good for babies born vaginally, so good that in some C sections it is smeared deliberately on to the baby as if it had been born the other way. Dirt is good in some senses.