To wish the army would stop flying three helicopters and an aeroplane in formation in low circles round and round my house?

[Sanguine]

How's a girl supposed to get her baby to sleep when the house keeps shaking? They've been going round and round for about 45 mins! I wouldn't mind if they were going somewhere, or even if they did one circle round my house and then disappeared to do a circle round someone else's house!

Grrr.

you are obviously under surveillance you naughty person! Get rid of the drugs now!

Put the kettle on fgs. Any minute now there will be paratroopers coming down your chimney.

I feel your pain. We get very low flying jets going at great speed over our house. Nursery hate it because every time they go over at least half the toddler group burst into tears.

I don't think you ABU if this happens very often. If on the oter hand it is relatively rare, don't we have to remember that soldiers have to practise somewhere and that if they do not there will be even more of them killed in Afghanistan and Iraq? In view of what they risk I'm not sure we should mind a litle inconvenience from time to time. We get the RAF jets often and I know what you mean about the DC being woken up or frightened but it's all relative compared with those DC who have lost their fathers in one of these wars somewhere, I feel.

Cat - quite, and I totally agree. Ever since I've had a baby of my own I can hardly bear to watch the news.

But like I said in my OP, if they'd just done it once or twice over my head, then gone and done it over someone else's head for a while, rather than going round and round and round over me for ages, I'd have been grateful. And I don't think a large housing estate in Oxfordshire is very representative of the terrain of Afghanistan. We get them going over all the time, sometimes bristling with weaponry, and I always spare a thought for the horrible job these guys have to do. But we also get quite a lot of practising for air shows, which means we get all sorts of odd things flying over us and doing formations etc.

Cor, AIBU is a scary place to be! I'm off folks, TTFN

I must get an early night - you wrote "doing formations", I read it as "doing fornications"

Of course it could actually be the RAF, not every green helicopter/vehicle belongs to the Army

Fornications! LOL.

Well, I was under the impression it was the army because they come off Dalton Barracks, which used to be RAF abingdon but is now used by the RLC. However, I have now discovered that the RAF from Benson use it as a helicopter training base as well, so it propbably was them.

They are very good at circles now

we get v low-flying jets, transport planes and helicopters with guys sitting with their feet hanging out of the sides. Half of DD's nursery seem to burst into tears as well, and she looks at them just like this

We get the Benson helicopters over us too. My DSs LOVE it and we have to RUSH outside to see them whenever they come over. I used to hate it too when Dss were babies as it used to disturb naps. Now DS1 has a friend in his class at school who's Dad is a heliopter pilot at Benson and so we are going to mow 'Hello H's Dad' into the lawn. (It really brings it home to you WHY they are doing it when you chat to one of the guys and here the hair-raising stories - so I don't mind at all now)

Pmsl why on earth would this thread pique your interest after 14 years?