If you live alongside a busy road, traffic noise is inevitable. I live in a village but unfortunately the road is a direct route from the nearest town to the local nuclear power station. Oddly enough, the most annoying ( and unneccessary ) noise/pollution comes from those people who persist in parking in the little layby outside the Church and adjoining Cemetary but never switch off their engines. It took me almost 2 years to persuade the local bus/coach companies to make their drivers aware of the issue. It still happens tho - locals, taxi firms, SM delivery drivers are the worst. Little difference with regards to age - younger generation are just as irresponsible as older folk and not many seem to realise that idling engines are a fineable offence.
We have busy traffic outside our place at certain times of day … I find it mildly irritating when I’m outside. However what really gets to me is the next door neighbour puffing away in the garden because he’s not allowed to do so in the house … so I often have to go inside as I am asthmatic and also find it bloody unpleasant ! Also the person that comes home from work and thinks that letting his dog out in the garden for about 30 minutes of continual barking in lieu of walking it ! Total muppet !! oh and then there is the bloke that sits with his car running whilst blocking the pavement while waiting for his offspring to appear from a freinds house, usually for around 20-25 minutes !
I really do not know what is wrong with people but believe that it gets worse year by year …. just read the above and I sound a right miserable xxxxxxx .. but I’m really quite a nice chap .. honest !
We do get field pongs, where we lived before we would get a whiff of the sewage where the cess pit lorries would collect it and when there lorry was full, would dump it in the field along the road. It would then be limed ready to spread on the fields.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I have to say @Ergates, that from *some distance* wood smoke I find to be pleasant and evocative, but I cannot bear it if it is blowing in strongly, as it can be choking and unhealthy! Glad the muck-spreading is not too regularly evident, but yes, all part of country life. I once stayed near to a sugar-beet factory and the rather unusual smell covered the whole area in the winter months. Definitely an acquired 'taste'.
The horses' hooves is another of those sounds I love too, not annoying at all. Plus all the neighing...not that I hear horses regularly, but you reminded me!
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Even though I grew up in London, in the 1970s there were still lots of working stables around. We had one on the hill above our house and one below it, so we would hear clip clops all the time.
That is true @philippasmith2, about traffic noise. I am impressed that your 2 year campaign paid off to some extent. When you say you made the drivers aware of the impact of their actions, do you feel it is something they are reminded of via policy now or is it almost back to you again to complain?
The vehicle idling is awful on many counts: pollution, smells, noise, vibration.
I am glad I don't live near a layby or bus-stop, but even so, all kinds of drivers commit the sin of vehicle-idling. There is someone who sits in the car listening to the radio for an hour or so regularly, plus workmen and drug-dealers. All kinds of people seem to think it is perfectly acceptable!
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I remember the sugar beet processing smell from when I worked in Newark for a couple of years. Not so bad as smells go, a bit candyfloss/toffee-ish. Getting stuck behind the lorries wasn't much fun though.
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Yes @muckyhandsmike ! ....about smokers now having to smoke outside (even outside of their own homes in some cases). Since the pandemic, I keep most windows open, despite the extra noise etc and unfortunately I live next door to a group of regular smokers. Their smoke infiltrates the garden and the whole house depending on the weather. Obviously tobacco smoke is a documented carcinogen.
I find that most smokers are addicted to smoking and so when it rains for instance, they are more likely to be standing smoking closer to buildings and houses, so there isn't always any respite for everyone else when it rains. I long to breathe that clear air after rain smell. I really think there needs to be a way of ensuring tobacco smoke is contained. Maybe a hazmat suit....for the smoker! (If only).
Sadly the dog-owner and car-idler are all too familiar to me. I did once think of putting a 'no-idling' sign outside, but knew it would fall on deaf ears or be vandalized. If I had more energy, I might try to start a local campaign....
At least you know you are not the only one having to deal with this kind of crap! 😁
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Oddly enough, the most annoying ( and unneccessary ) noise/pollution comes from those people who persist in parking in the little layby outside the Church and adjoining Cemetary but never switch off their engines. It took me almost 2 years to persuade the local bus/coach companies to make their drivers aware of the issue. It still happens tho - locals, taxi firms, SM delivery drivers are the worst. Little difference with regards to age - younger generation are just as irresponsible as older folk and not many seem to realise that idling engines are a fineable offence.
oh and then there is the bloke that sits with his car running whilst blocking the pavement while waiting for his offspring to appear from a freinds house, usually for around 20-25 minutes !
just read the above and I sound a right miserable xxxxxxx .. but I’m really quite a nice chap .. honest !
The horses' hooves is another of those sounds I love too, not annoying at all. Plus all the neighing...not that I hear horses regularly, but you reminded me!
The vehicle idling is awful on many counts: pollution, smells, noise, vibration.
I am glad I don't live near a layby or bus-stop, but even so, all kinds of drivers commit the sin of vehicle-idling. There is someone who sits in the car listening to the radio for an hour or so regularly, plus workmen and drug-dealers. All kinds of people seem to think it is perfectly acceptable!
I find that most smokers are addicted to smoking and so when it rains for instance, they are more likely to be standing smoking closer to buildings and houses, so there isn't always any respite for everyone else when it rains. I long to breathe that clear air after rain smell. I really think there needs to be a way of ensuring tobacco smoke is contained. Maybe a hazmat suit....for the smoker! (If only).
Sadly the dog-owner and car-idler are all too familiar to me. I did once think of putting a 'no-idling' sign outside, but knew it would fall on deaf ears or be vandalized. If I had more energy, I might try to start a local campaign....
At least you know you are not the only one having to deal with this kind of crap! 😁