some people who move to the country grrrrrrrrr

[gails]

Granted we are now not as much in the coutryside as we used to be as thy have built a new estate wich is gradually taking us nearer into lincoln, however.

I was just finishing at the field, when a chap pokes his head over the fence, and asks who is shooting the pidgeons, well it was clearly not me..... I asked him why and he said that a dead bird had just droped into his courtyard.

This bird must have been flying on empty over about 5 fields and across the A46, some going.

I offered to go and pick it up for him and duley tok the long walk to his part of the estate.

Now I will say that the gun noise was a hell of a lot louder at his side, but he the cheek to say that it was now a residential area, and he wanted it to stop of as now.

I told him this was not going to happen as our lively hood, as farmers, depended on it and that would not change just because some developer managed to hoodwink the council into building, in the nicest possible way.

I did not have the heart to tell him that our shoot starts in a couple of weeks time.

It just makes me wonder what people expect when they move to the country. It is a dirty , smell, noisey place and that does not change just because people choose to move in from the towns.

GRRRRRRRRRR

 

[Kenzo]

shoot the townies

that's what I say!

 

[happyhack]

haha!!! I love it!!

I do love these people who move to the country 'to get away from it all' and find that they get annoyed by tractors on the roads, horse crap on the roads and, as you say, the shooting season.......

They need to research their area!

 

[JosieSmith]

I'm stuck between towns and the country. I live in a busy city but yearn to be in the country. I'd love nothing more than to hear the shoot, it's what the country's all about. Land, animals, noises, all part and parcel and make it what it is. I'll happily swap him if he'd rather live back in a city

 

[spike123]

I live in a small place which has recently hit the headlines for the wrong reasons and all over a 'bloody sheep'. The fact is here is a farming area and sheep is what it is famous for.They are slaughtered on a daily basis and just because some small minded townies who are not locals think it is wrong the whole area has been plagued by the press. The fact is I have not yet met anyone local who thinks it was wrong to slaughter this sheep.

 

[Donkeymad]

Townies = Fluffy Bunnies. They shouldn't be let anywhere near the country

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Nothing quiet about the countryside - well not round here anyway!!

Let me see - tractors, combines,lorries, milk lorries, sheep, cows, horses (and associated poo), cockrels, pheasants and partride from the shoot, foxes, badgers, rabbits and hares (and associated poo), the shoot oh and of course the hunt.....not to mention crop scarers, dogs, quad bikes......

See now thats why I like to visit a nice quiet city every now and then......

 

[JosieSmith]

I've never seen a hunt, would love to watch one, and maybe even partake (hmmm, maybe not)

 

[Enfys]

There is always one isn't there. You have to laugh.

Yesterday someone stopped to ask for directions to a house for sale nearby, and he commented on the lack of street lights. (Why

So the raccoons can see where they are going?!) Street lights! He'd have got a hell of a shock when he discovered that there is no mains water or sewerage here either.

 

[f_s_]

Talking to a person in the next village one day, they related a story about a person who had moved there recently.

This person, politely asked her if she could "do something about the sheep baaing??"" Her reply was " Yes, you could move back to the town!!!"

Brilliant answer!!

There's always one!!!

 

[Magicmillbrook]

Tell me about it. I am an Environmental Health Officer, and if I had a pound for everyone who has contacted me to complain about harvesting, sugar beet lifting, grain dryers, muck spreading, the sound of cow's and sheep at night (sorry I will ask them to keep quiet), chicken sheds being emptied, tractors driving past peoples houses, flies, pheasants, shooting, pidgeons, rats, 'dangerous' ditches along the edges of fields where people want to walk there dogs - I would not have to be an EHO!

Most of these complaint start - I moved to the country to get away from smell and noise - sorry it doesnt meet up to your expectations, clear off back to the town then!

 

[Chico Mio]

They'd hate it here

I live in hamlet lost in the Dark Ages. Everyone is a small holder, most cows and other animals live in the undercrofts of the houses, the roads are paved with cow muck, dogs bark twenty four hours and cr*p everywhere, chickens run amok through your garden, chainsaws and strimmers are going at 6.30 am and a tractor is the vehicle of choice. We are considered a bit 'posh' because our horses don't work and we are not planning on eating them! It's great.

ETA Oh yes, no mains water (comes in a pipe from a spring shared with three neighbours), no mains sewage, no land line telephones and no internet coverage unless, like us, you live in the top part of the village and get it by radio link.

 

[Janah]

Agree with Slinkyunicorn but need to add helicopters! They are always flying over.

Jane

 

[Dubsie]

hahaha We're right on the very edge of town and although on the estate just up the road they're apparently allowed to mow their lawns every summer evening till gone 10pm, the minute OH/FIL starts up the tractor/strimmer/saw bench on a Saturday afternoon they pop round and complain about the noise because they're having a BBQ.
Or they call round and ask us to sell our field because it'd be a lovely place to build a house as they've always wanted to live in the country (we're about as urban country as you can get), and seem surprised when we say we want it to remain a field (aside from the fact it's green gap between settlements and they'd never get planning permission). One guy stuck his foot in the door and kept upping his offer and didn't seem to realise we didn't want to sell. I had to ask him which part of 'it's not for sale and never will be', he didn't understand we wanted it kept as a field and if it was built on it'd no longer be country! Mind you I did wobble once he got over the million mark as there's no way this place is worth that, but then we don't earn enough money to afford to buy anywhere else with land now (as with the rest of the neigbours in our road we've lived here for a very very long time).

 

[Pedantic]

If Derby is full of Derbians and Birmingham full of Brummies, is Berkshire full of Berks

 

[Janah]

Ere! I come from Berkshire!

Jane

 

[Spudlet]

My fave is the man who asked a local farmer if he could wash the wheels of his tractor before leaving his field, as it was dropping mud on the lane near to this guys house.

Answer was 'no mate this is the country - you get sh!t in the country...'

 

[Echo Bravo]

and I thought only Bedfordshire had the townie loonies.how about we all get together and write a best seller. what about a title called "leave us normal people alone and stay away" or "Look to the real life of the counrtyside" any suggestions

 

[lauraandjack]

Aah, townies, gotta love 'em!

They come here on holiday. And then call the RSPCA when they see a dead sheep halfway up a mountain.

1)how is the farmer honestly supposed to walk acres and acres of mountain every single day checking his stock.

2)the sheep round here are semi-feral anyway

3) in what way does a dead sheep have a welfare problem? It might have had one before, but it certainly doesn't have one now!

 

[Spudlet]

Aaaah but what if the other sheep see hmmm? They could be mentally scarred! They could need counselling!

Book title - how about
'Sheep, sh!t and shooting - a townie's survival guide to rural bliss'

 

[spookypony]

[ QUOTE ]

'Sheep, sh!t and shooting - a townie's survival guide to rural bliss'

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LOVE it!

 

[Mithras]

Its the same in Midlothian. I grew up here and it was rural bliss, Grade A farming land in the main. Now, like most of central Scotland, it consists of housing estates so that you can't tell which village is which. They conjoin. People think Scotland is rural and don't realise that most of the population is concentrated into one narrow belt across the middle.

Anyway, signs go up on ancient rural bridleways saying bikes and horses are banned because they cause mud. The local authority won't enforce the right to roam because they don't like horse riders or cyclists and are concentraing on "core paths" aka car parks with bits of prepared track that people drive to for their "leisure". The old paths are being lost and we are like a little island surrounded by roundabouts and housing estates. We're just hanging onto this property because developers come knocking on the door constantly and the money will enable me to buy somewhere truly rural one day. Its such a pity because it used to be so lovely here.

The trouble is with the planning system in this country. It encourages big scale developments. Housing estates are sanitised concrete boxes and remove people from reality. Their children have no idea about the countryside or rural ways.

 

[Fii]

A couple moved into our village and bought a golden retriever, the husband went to a commons meeting (we have large common land which is grazed by commoners and managed by a commitee) and all but demanded that concrete paths were put in as him and his dog got very muddy while on walks in the winter. He was advised to buy some wellies but did'nt like this idea so then he went to the local council and asked them to put the paths in. this is on SSSI land . I was speachless......well allmost.

 

[NeilM]

These are the type of people who backed the hunting ban. Never seen or heard a hunt in their life.

I swear these folks think everyone in the country still pull carts with heavy horses, wear smocks with XXX on them and call everyone Zurrr.

We have them around here, mainly retired couples who then complain about us riding horses / driving tractors on the road and holding them up. There were also a couple up on the Mendips who tried to get the ringing of church bells on a Sunday morning banned!

Have you noticed a common thread here, THEY always want everybody else to stop doing what they do for a living because THEY don't like it.

 

[camilla4]

I've seen them all in my time and they get me really angry. I think that anyone thinking of moving from town to country should have to do a trial period in a farming area and then pass a written exam to prove they know what they're letting themselves in for!

 

[Pedantic]

Better still, have them genetically tested for the "twat" gene, if they fail send them to Port Madock or whatever it's called so they can all live like the prisoner, and tell them over a loudspeaker, you are not a number, you are a twat, they can all analy drive each other barmy, and leave the rest of the real world to get on with their lives. Insert (Long evil Vincent Price type laffing) HOoooooooooooooo haaaaaaaahahahh

 

[Echo Bravo]

Yes but did the rspca ask the sheep how it felt or was it let down by the shepherd,because that is the way things are going,animals are no longer allowed a natural death, it's always somebody's fault and town folk, don't see sheep, cattle or pigs even chickens as the product what they buy in the supermarket. Look at the Hoha about Marcus the lamb,which could have been handled better