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This is what you live in the country for.

The dairy farm is spreading slurry today.

There is nothing like the smell of a bit of slurry that has spent a year resting quietly in its lagoon.

resting quietly in its lagoon.digesting fings wot av fallen into it...........

the local farmer sprays his field last week
and it was right wiffy for days :-(

thank god the smell has now gone :-D :-D :-D

This thread reminds me of the Last of the Summer Wine episode - when Wesley and the old codgers hitched Eadie's (Thora Hird) car up to a slurry spreader being towed by a tractor :-D

It's foul isn't it?

The first time the local farmer did it, it coincided with the gardener cutting the grass of the house at the back of us. They had a dog - I was blaming it on the dog poop being disturbed!

As it was human slurry, he go told off for using it in close proximity to residential areas. Thankfully either the wind has been in the other direction, or he hasn't done it again.

and I was moaning about my DH throwing fertiliser pellets on the garden.

Poor you!

:-(

The pellets he threw on the front lawn have disappeared. We thought they may have been watered in by rain, even though we've only had a couple of light showers....... until we saw neighbour's dog on our lawn.... eating the pellets! ewwwwwwwww, that makes REALLY BAD dog breath :-( :-(

Our eldest was a 'failure to thrive' until she ate some fertiliser pellets. Funny that!

I don't mind breathing in the smell of slurry for a couple of days. It is better than the smell of chemical fertilizer and blows away quite quickly.

It is the natural way of using up a natural waste product just the way it should be.

I'd rather have farm smells than city stinks :-(

We put off going to the "big" shops, because of the stink of exhaust fumes..... and avoid cities, because the stench is terrible........ hard to believe we lived in cities and never noticed it :-(

The worst we cope with is when the sugar cane farmers do the burning off...... horrible black smoke & bits of black stuff floating about (it looks like burnt bird feathers).

The natural smell of a male teenager is a pungent cocktail of stale sweat and Lynx, an antiperspirant spray that purports to smell of Africa, Vice or Dark Temptation – whatever they might be.

Much worse than any farmyard aroma!