Apparently the drones are back at Gatwick. I should like to think that the person/people responsible would be put in a room to face some of the people whose travel plans they have ruined. Sadly l don't think that will happen........
I suspect now that they're people who don't like noisy night flights and/or all the pollution from the airport.
I once went on a sculpture hunt with friends, following the installations of a famous, living Belgian artist from Tervuren via Zaventem to Antwerp. When we got out of the car to photograph the ones at the back end of the airport - with houses across the way - the place stank of aviation fuel from the planes waiting to taxi for take-off. How these people are supposed to enjoy their gardens, open their wndows for fresh air or hang out their washing is beyond me and that's just the smell, not the noise.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Most airports have been around for decades. Most ( but not all ) folk who live near them, have chosen to, ditto railway lines, motorways, church bells, smelly farms etc etc.
It's like houses on main roads, Hosta. Buy the same house a couple of roads back from it, and you'll pay thousands of pounds more - often tens of thousands. I feel for people when suddenly a new motorway/warehouse/school etc etc, is built nearby, just when you think it's all rosy. Round here there's a lot of green belt and farmland, and one area in particular has had ridiculous amounts of development, because councils would sell their granny if it made them money, and it's all prime commuter land. The farm along the road has sold off a bit of land for housing. It's a thankless job, and if they can make a fortune easily instead, who can blame them, when people seem desperate to live in the area.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Fairygirl, exactly, "you pays your money and you takes your pick". I once heard a woman on local radio ( Guildford ) complaining about the proposal to increase flight numbers at Farnborough. " I used to live near Heathrow and had to move because of the noise. Now I live next to Farnborough Airport and it's going to be the same" WHY THE HELL DID YOU MOVE THERE, YOU STUPID WOMAN????"
@Fairygirl, exactly, "you pays your money and you takes your pick". I once heard a woman on local radio ( Guildford ) complaining about the proposal to increase flight numbers at Farnborough. " I used to live near Heathrow and had to move because of the noise. Now I live next to Farnborough Airport and it's going to be the same" WHY THE HELL DID YOU MOVE THERE, YOU STUPID WOMAN????"
Totally agree. There was a letter in our local paper a few years ago from somebody complaining about the noise of planes at our local airport. There has been no real expansion in the 60 years we have lived here, so the complainant must have known about the airport when they moved in. They actually said that flights from it should be banned on Sundays because they 'disturbed the tranquility' of the area. I would say over 90% of flights are small, single engine aircraft. The complainant definitely fitted the profile of the townie who moves to the country and then complains about the smell and the church bells.
I often wonder about the retired people on those house buying programmes. They buy houses in the middle of nowhere, often with steep stairs and huge gardens. They admire the view with fields outside the window which will be fine if the farmer doesn't sell them. They don't seem to consider that one day, they might not be able to drive into that pretty little village full of quaint little shops or the miles to the nearest shopping centre when they need to buy the basics.
Couldn't agree more. You can't moan about the noise from something if you've moved there after it's built. My sister lives near her local primary school. The people in the houses directly opposite get the usual crap from folk parking on/across driveways while delivering their precious cherubs. One woman challenged an 'offender', only to be told 'you should have thought of that when you bought the house'. She was told in no uncertain terms that : A: that still didn't entitle her to block her drive, and B: the houses were there before the school..... They have no shame
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Nothing stays the same. We moved into a new build bungalow on what was once Farmland, small general farms usually rented could not be made to pay. Around us were market gardens producing fresh food for Stockton's twice a week market, all that was 38 years ago and now we are surrounded by housing estates. Our back lane never widened now takes what at times seems to be motorway traffic indeed has done when the A19 and A66 are closed by traffic accidents which are getting to be a daily occurrence. We cannot see the future and many of our friends who moved to their ideal Holiday spot came back when they found what was good for two weeks in the year had its problems long term. I was stationed almost alongside Farnborough Airport when it was Military, it was experimental and military hardware was tested night and day. We cannot have it all, one persons idyl is another persons misery, I came from Farm stock and even then knew it was never going to be for me, 24/7 relying on the health of your stock and the weather for some years a glut though more often a famine, people who idolise the life do not have to live it. Our Farms and Small holdings are long gone, I am three fields away from the General Hospital at my age a plus, I count my blessings remember the past as a happy time but it is that now with most of the family near by and Christmas planned, I have had worse ones by far. Count your blessing and keep Grumping. Merry Christmas to you all. Frank.
Happy Christmas to you too Frank, keep grumbling on, as you say very hard work in the old days, they won’t come back, not much was ‘better in our day’ .
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I once went on a sculpture hunt with friends, following the installations of a famous, living Belgian artist from Tervuren via Zaventem to Antwerp. When we got out of the car to photograph the ones at the back end of the airport - with houses across the way - the place stank of aviation fuel from the planes waiting to taxi for take-off. How these people are supposed to enjoy their gardens, open their wndows for fresh air or hang out their washing is beyond me and that's just the smell, not the noise.
I feel for people when suddenly a new motorway/warehouse/school etc etc, is built nearby, just when you think it's all rosy. Round here there's a lot of green belt and farmland, and one area in particular has had ridiculous amounts of development, because councils would sell their granny if it made them money, and it's all prime commuter land.
The farm along the road has sold off a bit of land for housing. It's a thankless job, and if they can make a fortune easily instead, who can blame them, when people seem desperate to live in the area.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I once heard a woman on local radio ( Guildford ) complaining about the proposal to increase flight numbers at Farnborough.
" I used to live near Heathrow and had to move because of the noise. Now I live next to Farnborough Airport and it's going to be the same"
WHY THE HELL DID YOU MOVE THERE, YOU STUPID WOMAN????"
My sister lives near her local primary school. The people in the houses directly opposite get the usual crap from folk parking on/across driveways while delivering their precious cherubs. One woman challenged an 'offender', only to be told 'you should have thought of that when you bought the house'.
She was told in no uncertain terms that :
A: that still didn't entitle her to block her drive, and B: the houses were there before the school.....
They have no shame
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We cannot see the future and many of our friends who moved to their ideal Holiday spot came back when they found what was good for two weeks in the year had its problems long term.
I was stationed almost alongside Farnborough Airport when it was Military, it was experimental and military hardware was tested night and day.
We cannot have it all, one persons idyl is another persons misery, I came from Farm stock and even then knew it was never going to be for me, 24/7 relying on the health of your stock and the weather for some years a glut though more often a famine, people who idolise the life do not have to live it.
Our Farms and Small holdings are long gone, I am three fields away from the General Hospital at my age a plus, I count my blessings remember the past as a happy time but it is that now with most of the family near by and Christmas planned, I have had worse ones by far.
Count your blessing and keep Grumping.
Merry Christmas to you all.
Frank.