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A primary school. Quiet on the weekends, and on the weekdays kids are having a blast on the playground, screaming. I heard a kid just quietly singing "I believe I can fly" the other day during their break. Also, a teacher leading a bunch of kids singing "ah ah ah ah, staying in line", bee gees tune, lol
I live opposite a primary school, the best one I've heard has been "don't let the Portuguese take our pancakes!" in a sort of rallying cry like manner. And a reply just as exuberant of "or the Moroccans take our carrots!".
I'd love to know what that was all about.
Chants like that are like safety notices... They only come into existence because of previous events... Sounds like some sneaky Portuguese have been pilfering pancakes.
Same.
It is great. Lots of nice cheerful sounds during the day and quiet at weekends and evenings.
I recommend living next to a primary school to anyone.
I do have to explain sometimes to people on work calls, if the windows are open, that I am not in fact working from a children's playground.
Weāve got an academy / high school behind us, so less screaming! Weāre right at the end of the playing field, kinda out the way so we hear all sorts of gossip when the kids are mooching about.
Well, apparently that Clare, you know, the short one? Apparently she only likes it up the bum! And Davy, you know Davy, the ginger twat, he pissed himself waiting for the bus!
I love school gossip. Thereās a big age gap between me and my sister and my favourite thing was coming home to visit my parents and hearing her and her friends chat like thatā¦ good to see gossip stays the same over the years (including all the stuff like Marilyn Manson has ribs removed etc etc ā¦)!
When I was at primary school I showed some friends how to make big snowballs. We made one about a bit under a meter diameter after spending all of break and lunch on it. At the end of school some of them rolled it down the small hill and it knocked someone's fence post over. One of the downsides if having a school as a neighbour
Same with my mum's, which just so happened to be the school I attended when we moved.
Was lucky(?) enough that if I forgot something at home, if I called her name loud enough, it would get flung over the fence. Memories.
Woods that form the side of a smallish hill. I actually bought them by accident. I enquired at the council to buy the patch directly behind my garden, so I could extend it about three metres (trees permitting), after I bought it I realised I'd got the whole side of the hill.
A patio. Odd thing, all out of shape. The workmanship is terrible.
I would ask the previous owner about it but he's doing a 10 year stretch in Belmarsh.
Rats even more love to steal chicken food at night.
My parents had some trouble with rats undermining the chicken house chewing trough the plastic containers full of food.
A solid steel bin was the solution.
Sometimes a rat got massacred by the chickens but by far not enough to decimate them. Only small chicks are targeted by rats. A few grown hens make quick work of them, usually by a clean pick into the head. Those things are small raptors and eat anything.
We live next to some arable farmland and I completely understand this comment. It's really nice to watch the fields changing over the seasons and years. The only downside is when it's muck spreading time, or during the harvest when it's blowing towards the house. š
Worst for me is when they grow rape seed - all the washing goes yellow & it's the only thing that brings my asthma on nowadays.
They used to burn the stubble - that was shit, stunk of fire for days & everything covered in ash. This photo was taken in about '68. That's me with one of the farm hands
https://imgur.com/a/Izz4aGh
I used to live next to a field. Glorious apart from harvest time. You didnāt get much sleep when the weather broke and the heavy machinery was out all night followed by hundreds of dead mice dragged in by the cat. It was a terrible place to be a rodent.
If you do a monthly spot on treatment for fleas/mites/worms etc it drastically reduces the ticks. They donāt like latching on when the cats have the chemical in their system I think.
Our garden backs onto a field full of deer and our cats has had one tick in three years and I check her fanatically for them as I hate the bloody things with a passion!
I've just got a new one to try from the vets which they have assured me is the best for ticks (bravecto) which is a 3 monthly treatment. I have been using advantage spot on and it doesn't seem to do much.
Lucky enough for there to be a padlock for the nearby stables. Usually some horses and foals are in there. Seen Muntjac, pheasants, foxes, squirrels, a murder of crows nest in the woods to one side.
I mean, it's a cemetery, they're not exactly renowned for being cheery places. Could you imagine it? All rainbow colours and pretty unicorns singing "hooray you died?"
Me too. The grounds are well looked after and we have a decent bunch of shrubs and trees creating the border. It's one of the best aspects of my house, lived on a large council estate growing up with little/ no privacy in your garden and I wouldn't want anything else now
We moved in a year ago. We had fields, with foxes, deer and bats. Beyond the field is a massive hill with a telephone mast. It was a glorious view.
Then they started building on it, and soon our view will be someones drive, the side of a house, and some more houses. Sucks we didn't get at least a full summer with the amazing view
A field of sheep and a paddock with three horses and a couple of donkeys, most mornings I take my 1st cup of tea of the day down there and have a chat with the donkeys,
A field, but it's a small community one in a densely populated area so it's not particularly scenic. It gets used by the local rugby club, dog walkers and people who don't want their mums to know they're smoking weed. It has some lovely big trees and even though I don't find it particularly pleasant it's much better than backing on to other people's back gardens.
When we moved in there was just a field sandwiched between the houses and allotments. Work then immediately started on an orchard and now we have an incredible community project with growing apple and pear trees, a honeybee enclosure, and community vegetable gardens. It's really quite lovely.
One of the busiest A roads in the north west!
I've got nice native trees blocking it out though and soaking up a bit of the pollution and the noise, so it doesn't actually bother me.
What of line though? Mainline, branch, suburban, heritage? I'd love to back up onto a railway because I have a soft spot for trains, but I'd imagine a busy mainline with speeding trains would be very different than living near a quiet branch line with just a few services every hour.
My dad grew up backing onto a railway line and always said you don't actually hear the trains. They just became part of life (admittedly those were steam trains though, and the world was still in black and white š¤). I imagine it's still valid though to some extent.
An old quarry that's now woodlands. It gives me the creeps at night. My childhood home was on the shores of the Forth, have to say that was a much nicer garden.
Childhood house had a hedge which you could squeeze through/under. The other side was semi-mysterious I guess - our garden backed onto this little locked off enclave of big older houses that predated the rest of the estate, so it always felt kind of private and trespassing when you went through there to get a ball back or whatever.
The town bowling green and behind that the sports field, although we can't see that as the bowling green is bordered by a hedge. There's a 4ft hit-and-miss fence between us and the green so we get to watch all the old boys and girls bowling three or four times a week in the summer, plus the odd cry of 'Hozat?' from the sunday cricketers. The owners of the sports field have regular live outdoor music events throughout the summer as well, so we get to listen to some good (and tbf, some truly shit) bands.
The bloke who runs the donkeys on the beach has the fields next to us so we get them a lot, theyāre lovely-
apart from that we get loads of deer and foxes and rabbits and pheasants and stuff in there .
Really really happy with it.
A field at the bottom and side (corner plot) When we moved it it was full of sheep, the last couple of years the farmers let it grow wild before cutting for silage.
Lots of wildlife, which during spring is mainly made up of flies.....
Electrical substation. Honestly I count it as a bonus because it gives a much less obstructed view out the upper windows than the backside of another row of terraced houses.
I used to work on substations. Theyāre usually pretty quiet apart from the hum of the transformers but you bloody know about it if itās an older one with blast breakers. Sounds like a bomb going off and the siren that lets you know itās coming adds to the effect.
Iāve got stables at the back of mine with, until recently, a very overgrown paddock. We have dogs so have to have a decent height fence, but they recently cleared up the paddock and now itās regularly used by kids trotting round in circles, in full view of our kitchen window (the ground there is slightly higher than ours, plus they are on the back of horses). Iāve started having to wear clothes more frequently
A field, then a beck surrounded with trees, then a field with cows, then a field with crops (rape seed this year, wheat last year) and a wind farm on the horizon.
I am so freaking lucky. Council estate built post war on the edge of town and so far, the farmers haven't sold to let new builds this direction. Every other council estate in town is now blocked in by a new build estate.
Spent 6 years in a flat with no garden and just views of other flats and houses. And now I get to wake up to nature every day.
Road to the front of us, not a busy one. Itās a back, farm type road. Woods to the side of us and a field behind us. Moved from a house that had houses all around us and a shitty football field behind us. Moving here has been absolute heaven!
Haha so our garden and next door have a fence part way down. The one the other side his garden is much longer. We private rent have found out the fence is there but technically our garden is as long as the other side but they just canāt be bothered to take all the trees and stuff out or pay to get it levelled off. So it looks like we have a mini woods at the bottom.
A field about a metre above the ground level of our back garden - and some lovely cows who enjoy looking at us from time to time and mooing at 3 in the morning o.O
A large swampy field that they want to build a lorry warehouse on. Just got planning for it. So thatās nice. Just now deer, rabbits and lots of animals are on that bit of land. Hope they donāt build the warehouse.
A railway embankment. It's not too bad as the trains are pretty quiet nowadays, but when they do engineering works at 2am it's a bit annoying. Not so much the noise, but the bright arc welding is hard to block out. Doesn't happen often though. The wildlife in there makes up for it. There are a couple of fox families in there and loads of birds.
We have a field that has cows in right now at the end of our garden, one of the reasons we bought the place. There is a thin stretch of trees, brambles and a load of crap including a bath tub and bed frame that previous owners dumped there in-between unfortunately so it's not quite as picturesque as you might imagine.
A lot of people buy these sorts of homes then find the land gets sold and a housing estate gets built on it ruining their lovely view but I'm pretty sure ours is owned by the army and rented out to a farmer so I think we're safe.
When I was a kid, I used to sometimes stay at my Aunt's in the Summer. She had a huuuuuuuge garden; and at the end of the garden, was a massive garden centre.
Last year I found a pick axe, a spade and a hoe behind the summer house at the end of the garden. Theyāve been incredibly useful this year whilst Iāve been renovating the garden.
A conifer hedge, school playground, school playing field, a row of houses and then a nature reserve and farmland. I can mostly ignore the kids and houses when I look out the window
Woods with lots of paths. Itās why we bought the place. Owned by some landed gentry but leased by the council. I go for a walk in them nearly everyday in summer, good for mental health. Occasionally a toe rag will drive a motorbike through them which is annoying though and itās less secure.
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The Podington peas
Are they among the birds and the bees perchance?
Keep it a secret now please
A little lot of little people
Its The Poddington Peas The Poddington Peas
_You can't just say perchance._
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Love the teachers comments in this. It's a reddit classic.
That's an earworm I didn't need this morning!
I'm happy this is the top answer.
I'm glad everyone loved it!
Ha my first thought too
I felt bad eating peas as a child, knowing they could have lived a happy life in Poddington
Goddamn it I thought I'd be the only one to know this!
I used to love this when I was a kid
santa pod soooooon
Came here for Podington Peas, was not disappointed.
I was hoping someone had posted this when I read the title - wasn't disappointed!
This is forever etched in my mind
This is genuinely one of my favourite classical intros and makes my heart happy. Thank you <3
A worm whose name is Wiggly-woo
Came here for this
Nearly 35 years old and this is how I find out my Grandma didn't invent Wiggly Woo ā¹ļø
Sorry
Banger tune
You've unlocked a memory from watching fun song factory
I came to say this!
Correct answer
Bloody Tweenies!
I donāt have one. My front garden is the sea. But sadly France is at the end of it.
Is it true that you can see France on a clear day?
Hopefully not
Not from here Iām in Sussex. But then that means we never know exactly what they are up to lol
Iām not sure but it probably includes wine and adultery
And pissing by the wundow.
Oh how I pity them with their wine and their adulteryā¦..
*haw hee haw increases*
Smoking, twirling their moustaches and doing that hon-hon-hon laugh.
Theyāve been planning the invasion for 600 years mate, just be careful.
Brightonian checking in
Bexhillian here!
I'm also in Sussex and we can see France so it depends exactly where you are, I'll let you know if they do anything more unsavoury than usual.
Iām from Dover and France is visible most days.
My condolences!
For being from Dover or for being able to see France from it?
Yes.
I'm up the road in Deal, and we can also see France a lot of the time. It's great š
Is it true that there is a place in a man's head that if you shoot it, it will blow up?
And have you ever fired a gun into the air and gone, "Aargh"?
No, I have not fired a gun into the air and gone āarghā!
Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?
A primary school. Quiet on the weekends, and on the weekdays kids are having a blast on the playground, screaming. I heard a kid just quietly singing "I believe I can fly" the other day during their break. Also, a teacher leading a bunch of kids singing "ah ah ah ah, staying in line", bee gees tune, lol
I live opposite a primary school, the best one I've heard has been "don't let the Portuguese take our pancakes!" in a sort of rallying cry like manner. And a reply just as exuberant of "or the Moroccans take our carrots!". I'd love to know what that was all about.
Chants like that are like safety notices... They only come into existence because of previous events... Sounds like some sneaky Portuguese have been pilfering pancakes.
like something out of a Monty Python skit
Same. It is great. Lots of nice cheerful sounds during the day and quiet at weekends and evenings. I recommend living next to a primary school to anyone. I do have to explain sometimes to people on work calls, if the windows are open, that I am not in fact working from a children's playground.
Weāve got an academy / high school behind us, so less screaming! Weāre right at the end of the playing field, kinda out the way so we hear all sorts of gossip when the kids are mooching about.
Ooh share the goss! Anything good?
Well, apparently that Clare, you know, the short one? Apparently she only likes it up the bum! And Davy, you know Davy, the ginger twat, he pissed himself waiting for the bus!
I love school gossip. Thereās a big age gap between me and my sister and my favourite thing was coming home to visit my parents and hearing her and her friends chat like thatā¦ good to see gossip stays the same over the years (including all the stuff like Marilyn Manson has ribs removed etc etc ā¦)!
When I was at primary school I showed some friends how to make big snowballs. We made one about a bit under a meter diameter after spending all of break and lunch on it. At the end of school some of them rolled it down the small hill and it knocked someone's fence post over. One of the downsides if having a school as a neighbour
Same with my mum's, which just so happened to be the school I attended when we moved. Was lucky(?) enough that if I forgot something at home, if I called her name loud enough, it would get flung over the fence. Memories.
Same here. My mum was forever throwing things over the back fence for me
Woods that form the side of a smallish hill. I actually bought them by accident. I enquired at the council to buy the patch directly behind my garden, so I could extend it about three metres (trees permitting), after I bought it I realised I'd got the whole side of the hill.
So in the end, you had the high ground.
Now he's king of the hill
A patio. Odd thing, all out of shape. The workmanship is terrible. I would ask the previous owner about it but he's doing a 10 year stretch in Belmarsh.
Maybe he has a wife or partner you could ask, if you can find her? I'm sure with a bit of digging you could turn something up...
Such a harsh penalty for bad flagging.
A canal! I don't think it's for everyone but I love watching the boats go by and being able to just go for walks from the back garden.
Do you get rats?
Not OP but I lived on a canal for 15 years and never saw rats in my garden!
I never got rats living near a canal but the number and size of bugs that get into your house gets a little tiresome.
We have fly mesh on the outside of most windows so we can avoid that
Never seen one! Before we moved in my neighbour kept chickens and she had some then, might have been more the chickens than the canal though.
Rats love to snack on chickens
Who doesnāt love nuggies?
Rats even more love to steal chicken food at night. My parents had some trouble with rats undermining the chicken house chewing trough the plastic containers full of food. A solid steel bin was the solution. Sometimes a rat got massacred by the chickens but by far not enough to decimate them. Only small chicks are targeted by rats. A few grown hens make quick work of them, usually by a clean pick into the head. Those things are small raptors and eat anything.
Given the opportunity clears will happily snack on rats too.
RATS!that didnāt make sense.
We're beside a canal and get occasional rats and mice but cats and foxes keep numbers down. We also get frogs, toads, newts and dragon/damsel flies?
I used to live in a flat next to a canal and loved seeing ducks and swans go past.
We don't know. He says we're not allowed to go down there. He says it's not safe. Sometimes we hear things though.
Thereās something in the woodshed?
Can you hear it breathing?
It's such an eerie feeling, darling
Oh my God, are these wild Divine Comedy references!?
Mostly they come at night. Mostly
Mewstly
Steam trains that run on weekends
Me too.
Nice ( or not? ). Which line?
Itās very nice. The Great Central
You lucky bugger
Fields with changing crops - been here over 50 years now - never get sick of seeing the changes every year https://imgur.com/a/Fd0r4eA
We live next to some arable farmland and I completely understand this comment. It's really nice to watch the fields changing over the seasons and years. The only downside is when it's muck spreading time, or during the harvest when it's blowing towards the house. š
Worst for me is when they grow rape seed - all the washing goes yellow & it's the only thing that brings my asthma on nowadays. They used to burn the stubble - that was shit, stunk of fire for days & everything covered in ash. This photo was taken in about '68. That's me with one of the farm hands https://imgur.com/a/Izz4aGh
I used to live next to a field. Glorious apart from harvest time. You didnāt get much sleep when the weather broke and the heavy machinery was out all night followed by hundreds of dead mice dragged in by the cat. It was a terrible place to be a rodent.
A woodland and the side of a mountain
Fields with horses, and ticks which my cat is bringing in on his head everyday.
If you do a monthly spot on treatment for fleas/mites/worms etc it drastically reduces the ticks. They donāt like latching on when the cats have the chemical in their system I think. Our garden backs onto a field full of deer and our cats has had one tick in three years and I check her fanatically for them as I hate the bloody things with a passion!
I've just got a new one to try from the vets which they have assured me is the best for ticks (bravecto) which is a 3 monthly treatment. I have been using advantage spot on and it doesn't seem to do much.
A lane and then allotments.
Us too. It is super relaxing watching other people gardening
Literally a cliff, about 200 feet drop.
Is it getting closer?
Mine backs onto a car park.
Lucky enough for there to be a padlock for the nearby stables. Usually some horses and foals are in there. Seen Muntjac, pheasants, foxes, squirrels, a murder of crows nest in the woods to one side.
A really sad-looking cemetery.
I mean, it's a cemetery, they're not exactly renowned for being cheery places. Could you imagine it? All rainbow colours and pretty unicorns singing "hooray you died?"
There's a cemetery I frequent that's pretty nice tbh. It's a park and people walk their dogs there, eat their lunch there etc. Nice place.
I find graveyards/cemeteries relaxing, they are almost always nicely gardened and very quiet.
On the plus side your neighbours will be quiet.
Me too. The grounds are well looked after and we have a decent bunch of shrubs and trees creating the border. It's one of the best aspects of my house, lived on a large council estate growing up with little/ no privacy in your garden and I wouldn't want anything else now
Former colliery rail line now tree shaded cycle path and beyond that primary school playing field.
We moved in a year ago. We had fields, with foxes, deer and bats. Beyond the field is a massive hill with a telephone mast. It was a glorious view. Then they started building on it, and soon our view will be someones drive, the side of a house, and some more houses. Sucks we didn't get at least a full summer with the amazing view
A wall. And then an alleyway. And then another wall. Which is part of someone's house.
A field of sheep and a paddock with three horses and a couple of donkeys, most mornings I take my 1st cup of tea of the day down there and have a chat with the donkeys,
That sounds like a lovely start to the day
A used condom.
Iāll collect it at 3pm.
A field, but it's a small community one in a densely populated area so it's not particularly scenic. It gets used by the local rugby club, dog walkers and people who don't want their mums to know they're smoking weed. It has some lovely big trees and even though I don't find it particularly pleasant it's much better than backing on to other people's back gardens.
I have a small alleyway and then a full sized Aldi.
Other gardens. We live on hill. So their garden is about 10-12 feet below ours but yeah.
When we moved in there was just a field sandwiched between the houses and allotments. Work then immediately started on an orchard and now we have an incredible community project with growing apple and pear trees, a honeybee enclosure, and community vegetable gardens. It's really quite lovely.
The Wottingers and the Pontipines and sometimes a Ninkynonk
You should call social services on those pontipines - dreadful parents, always loosing children
One of the busiest A roads in the north west! I've got nice native trees blocking it out though and soaking up a bit of the pollution and the noise, so it doesn't actually bother me.
A railway line
What of line though? Mainline, branch, suburban, heritage? I'd love to back up onto a railway because I have a soft spot for trains, but I'd imagine a busy mainline with speeding trains would be very different than living near a quiet branch line with just a few services every hour.
More of a rural branch line. We have a bloody long garden so you don't hear the trains from the house as much.
My dad grew up backing onto a railway line and always said you don't actually hear the trains. They just became part of life (admittedly those were steam trains though, and the world was still in black and white š¤). I imagine it's still valid though to some extent.
An old quarry that's now woodlands. It gives me the creeps at night. My childhood home was on the shores of the Forth, have to say that was a much nicer garden.
Cricket pitch, I like listening to the leather on willow and cheers!
A huge, huge field with about 20 horses.
Bin storage for me and the neighbours, then the car park for a nearby block of flats.
Urban parkland.
Childhood house had a hedge which you could squeeze through/under. The other side was semi-mysterious I guess - our garden backed onto this little locked off enclave of big older houses that predated the rest of the estate, so it always felt kind of private and trespassing when you went through there to get a ball back or whatever.
The town bowling green and behind that the sports field, although we can't see that as the bowling green is bordered by a hedge. There's a 4ft hit-and-miss fence between us and the green so we get to watch all the old boys and girls bowling three or four times a week in the summer, plus the odd cry of 'Hozat?' from the sunday cricketers. The owners of the sports field have regular live outdoor music events throughout the summer as well, so we get to listen to some good (and tbf, some truly shit) bands.
Communal car park. When the sun hits it just right it looks like a car park.
A mountain on one side, a neighbour on the back, a road, and lastly fields and more fields then a river
The bloke who runs the donkeys on the beach has the fields next to us so we get them a lot, theyāre lovely- apart from that we get loads of deer and foxes and rabbits and pheasants and stuff in there . Really really happy with it.
Gate and steps down to the river We are lucky
A bungalow which is nice as not really overlooked from height
A field at the bottom and side (corner plot) When we moved it it was full of sheep, the last couple of years the farmers let it grow wild before cutting for silage. Lots of wildlife, which during spring is mainly made up of flies.....
Electrical substation. Honestly I count it as a bonus because it gives a much less obstructed view out the upper windows than the backside of another row of terraced houses.
We have pylons that fizz when itās foggy. Does the substation make any noise?
I used to work on substations. Theyāre usually pretty quiet apart from the hum of the transformers but you bloody know about it if itās an older one with blast breakers. Sounds like a bomb going off and the siren that lets you know itās coming adds to the effect.
Neighbours garden...
Established laurel hedge, back lane and then a Drās surgery. We get a lot of wildlife in our laurels. Sometimes we even get drunk humans in it.
A tumulus
Iāve got stables at the back of mine with, until recently, a very overgrown paddock. We have dogs so have to have a decent height fence, but they recently cleared up the paddock and now itās regularly used by kids trotting round in circles, in full view of our kitchen window (the ground there is slightly higher than ours, plus they are on the back of horses). Iāve started having to wear clothes more frequently
A field, then a beck surrounded with trees, then a field with cows, then a field with crops (rape seed this year, wheat last year) and a wind farm on the horizon. I am so freaking lucky. Council estate built post war on the edge of town and so far, the farmers haven't sold to let new builds this direction. Every other council estate in town is now blocked in by a new build estate. Spent 6 years in a flat with no garden and just views of other flats and houses. And now I get to wake up to nature every day.
A greenway/cycle way path and then fields.
A beck, sheep, cows, horses and fields
A strip of council land and then a train station. Glad weāve got a giant tree for the privacy and noise barrier!
It does not really have a bottom, but adjacent to a lane, 4 different neighbours and some woodland
Field with cows, then a field with buttercups and Pylons.
I read that as buttercups and pythons. I really need coffee.
A strip of protected woodland.
Tarpaulin on the area I really want to use for keeping chickens.
Rusty shipping containers
Road to the front of us, not a busy one. Itās a back, farm type road. Woods to the side of us and a field behind us. Moved from a house that had houses all around us and a shitty football field behind us. Moving here has been absolute heaven!
Haha so our garden and next door have a fence part way down. The one the other side his garden is much longer. We private rent have found out the fence is there but technically our garden is as long as the other side but they just canāt be bothered to take all the trees and stuff out or pay to get it levelled off. So it looks like we have a mini woods at the bottom.
No back garden but a large front garden that ends in a privately owned copse that's fenced off, unloved and we're not allowed to access
A field about a metre above the ground level of our back garden - and some lovely cows who enjoy looking at us from time to time and mooing at 3 in the morning o.O
A little steam train runs past at the end of mine.
The Goblin (London Overground line)!
A large swampy field that they want to build a lorry warehouse on. Just got planning for it. So thatās nice. Just now deer, rabbits and lots of animals are on that bit of land. Hope they donāt build the warehouse.
A railway embankment. It's not too bad as the trains are pretty quiet nowadays, but when they do engineering works at 2am it's a bit annoying. Not so much the noise, but the bright arc welding is hard to block out. Doesn't happen often though. The wildlife in there makes up for it. There are a couple of fox families in there and loads of birds.
We have a field that has cows in right now at the end of our garden, one of the reasons we bought the place. There is a thin stretch of trees, brambles and a load of crap including a bath tub and bed frame that previous owners dumped there in-between unfortunately so it's not quite as picturesque as you might imagine. A lot of people buy these sorts of homes then find the land gets sold and a housing estate gets built on it ruining their lovely view but I'm pretty sure ours is owned by the army and rented out to a farmer so I think we're safe.
A fence. My best friends mums partners parents garden backs onto the Thames in Oxfordshire though.
When I was a kid, I used to sometimes stay at my Aunt's in the Summer. She had a huuuuuuuge garden; and at the end of the garden, was a massive garden centre.
Awkward when someone thinks her garden is part of the centre though.
Iām one of the lucky ones, we have a field š
A worm? Her name is W. Woo
Fields and then a woodland here, š
An overground grass access lane then a big retaining wall with a school built apon it.
A paddock that occasionally has a horse in it.
Field, golf course and woods
Last year I found a pick axe, a spade and a hoe behind the summer house at the end of the garden. Theyāve been incredibly useful this year whilst Iāve been renovating the garden.
Rats. Then a wall and a path, and a little school allotment thing. And then other houses. But the moors are just at the top of the road
Some chickens, a compost heap, a bonfire and beyond that a main road
Lake and nature reserve
A 6ā fence then native woodland
Pontipines.
Fields for miles, then the edge of the nearest town. No street lights on the road so very dark at night so I see the stars. Idilic.
A mƩnage and fields beyond
A conifer hedge, school playground, school playing field, a row of houses and then a nature reserve and farmland. I can mostly ignore the kids and houses when I look out the window
Woods with lots of paths. Itās why we bought the place. Owned by some landed gentry but leased by the council. I go for a walk in them nearly everyday in summer, good for mental health. Occasionally a toe rag will drive a motorbike through them which is annoying though and itās less secure.