We bought this land and built our house over 20 years ago, and were able to buy adjoining woodland 3 years ago. You get more for your money around here. We could not have afforded to have this house and garden in most other areas of the UK.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
The squeaking of trampolines and the banging noise of footballs being kicked are the worst, usually accompanied by the monosyllabic grunting of pre-teen/early teen boys and the shrieking of girls the same age. All that seems to carry from several gardens away (but worse when it's next door). Small children's noise seems to be much less intrusive. Persistent dog barking/yapping also bothers me but no one around here seems to have a noisy dog at the moment.
Building noise doesn't really bother me (there's lots around here at the moment) and nor does traffic noise or lawn mowing and suchlike. Music is really only audible from one neighbour and they normally play stuff that I like or at least don't mind, so that's OK. Strangely I notice the absence of aircraft noise since our local airport closed, even though it was never very busy.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
What a good idea @fire to have the window box pond making splashing sounds, with the fans going too. It gets more complicated during autumn and winter though, I agree. I have a sound machine from Lifemax just behind my head in bed. Lifemax sell a few different machines and one of them was rubbish and never worked but the other one has been going for over 2 years. Various sounds, but the one I am finding useful currently is 'ocean' and it helps mask the noisy washing-machine and traffic to a degree. It can get a bit boring though. I am finding it is still rather warm indoors, even with the bedroom and other windows open all the time.
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@JennyJ, yes worse if next door, quite agree! I had forgotten about yapping dogs. A few years ago, there were quite a few which would set each other off, but thankfully they seem to have moved away. Maddening at the time though and I always felt sorry for the dogs who were either shut out in their gardens for hours or had no company etc.
That is curious about your response to the aircraft noise - maybe it takes time to acclimatise! I remember during the first COVID lockdown, the great reduction in road traffic noise, and it was wonderful.
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We used to live in Twickenham and were under a flight path to Heathrow. We were able to tune out of the noise - except when Concord flew over!
The planes we see & hear now are either local amateurs flying out from a private airfield not too far away, rescue helicopters or the military on manoeuvres. (And there will generally be someone on Facebook who will identify the planes). But I will never forget when, at the start of the Iraq war I saw them flying overhead, going out over the North Sea before turning down to Iraq and feeling sickened as I knew only too well what their mission was.
But most of the time it's really quiet. I can't hear a thing from outside as I type this.
My dog used to go mad every night at 9pm Concorde would go over and break the sound barrier, weren’t supposed to do it until they were over the ocean but they never quite waited that long.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Bee Witched, can I build a lodge in your garden please! We live on the outskirts of a village,near the south downs. It's not bad. A few years ago there was a drummer in the next road "practiced" every day around one in the afternoon!!! He must have moved. There was an oik thundered by on a trials bike, don't know if he's moved/been warned. Pollution, difficult to say,there is a pretty main road,3 roads away. We have a lot of trees including a large silver birch, which I am hoping offset. Love the birds, especially the blackbird early summer. Don't even mind the gulls or pigeons. My neighbours hardly "do" gardening as well you know,so not much noise from machinery. Is that you Alan (Titchmarsh)🤭
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We bought this land and built our house over 20 years ago, and were able to buy adjoining woodland 3 years ago.
You get more for your money around here. We could not have afforded to have this house and garden in most other areas of the UK.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
That is curious about your response to the aircraft noise - maybe it takes time to acclimatise! I remember during the first COVID lockdown, the great reduction in road traffic noise, and it was wonderful.
The planes we see & hear now are either local amateurs flying out from a private airfield not too far away, rescue helicopters or the military on manoeuvres. (And there will generally be someone on Facebook who will identify the planes). But I will never forget when, at the start of the Iraq war I saw them flying overhead, going out over the North Sea before turning down to Iraq and feeling sickened as I knew only too well what their mission was.
But most of the time it's really quiet. I can't hear a thing from outside as I type this.
The war planes flying out in a formation must have been an eerie thing to witness with a horrible sense of inevitability...
If only 'quiet' could be bottled up and saved for when it is needed!