A pleasant interruption to progress.....

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This morning's entertainment. :thumb2:






Belated Happy Easter by the way!

Ron

[Dave Ward]

Ron,
I get the same thing - the farmer was fertilising earlier this week ( no smell! ). Often in Autumn he's reaping until the early hours - you get the lights going backwards & forwards!
At the moment there's a field of expectant and new born sheep up the valley, can't see it from my window, but certainly can hear it,
Dave

[Ian M]

Yesterday I have the 'Pleasure' Of a Massey Ferguson pulling a Sampson Slurry tank up and down the field cross the road.
I would herewith like to say that slurry from a pig farm smells bloody ripe! lol

[peterairfix]

Oh the joys of the country side I don't get that here as all the fields at slowing being turned in housing estates in the last five years four have already gone and a few more have been earmarked.

[Guest]

Like Peter we are being surrounded by estates of new homes, gone is the sound of the Skylark :disappointed:
At least in my old workshop we were in a village with fields on two sides with all that it brings.

[Ian M]

I must add that the pong out side is normally quick to pass. The peace of the countryside makes up for that tenfold.
The road by the front garden gets about 20 cars a day; in the week ends. some times the only thing that goes past is the bus! (more often than not an empty one but bus route = snow removal in the winter! Bonus.)
A week dag I can be in the garden all day with only the birdsong to brake the silence. ( or the neighbours dogs going mental That I could do without!!!).
This Year we have Wheat out the front and sugar beets out the back.!
With the price of farm land where I live I doubt that they will be sold for houses! Well I hope not!

[Dave Ward]

I look out from my window onto a river ( well - a stream ) lined with mature trees, as the leaves grow, I can see less and less of the field beyond.
Wildlife? Foxes yapping, Badgers grumbling ( also less appealing, rats ), at least two sorts of owls. More birds than I can name, there are the occasional exotic visitors - Slimbridge is just a few miles away. At the moment there are a trio of Jackdaws squabbling on a fence - I'd always lived in cities, or suburbs before coming to Gloucestershire, I think I'd hate that now, and whilst the village is expanding, it's not in my direction!
Dave

[Guest]

Yesterday I have the 'Pleasure' Of a Massey Ferguson pulling a Sampson Slurry tank up and down the field cross the road.
I would herewith like to say that slurry from a pig farm smells bloody ripe! lol

Be glad they’re not allowed to spray it in a big fan out the back of the tank anymore. Cycling to school, we sometimes had to pull our coats up over our noses to at least try to be able to breathe when some local farmer had been spraying liquid manure around.

[Ian M]

Be glad they’re not allowed to spray it in a big fan out the back of the tank anymore.

Oh yes I remember those. Evil things.

[Dave Ward]

Now, I know summer is on the way! The first visit of the season by the Ice Cream Van! Last year it was 'The Sun has Got His Hat On' - this year it seems to be 'Dixie'
Dave

[AlanG]

Smell of the countryside? I spent five hours yesterday mucking out the pig shed. Certainly clears the old sinuses lol. But i do like the smell of freshly cut hay/haylage/silage.

Spent most of day today AI'ing 64 pigs and razzing around in a manatou :smiling3: