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DaveinGermany · 23-06-2012, 11:54

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Originally Posted by mobertol

If I could choose -I can honestly say I prefer the smell of salt on the wind over the good "country" smells that are round here today

Right with you there Mo, 100%.

Retlaw · 23-06-2012, 11:55

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Ya retlaw must be as old as methuselah if not older

I thowt tha wur browt up propur, luks lyk A wur misten, tha nod supposed tu gi cheek tu thi Elders.

DaveinGermany · 23-06-2012, 11:57

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Originally Posted by susie123

Well I'm a fully fledged cynic

Duly noted Sue, duly noted.

susie123 · 23-06-2012, 12:19

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Originally Posted by mobertol

If I could choose -I can honestly say I prefer the smell of salt on the wind over the good "country" smells that are round here today

Having lived in the country for 18 years I got very good at working out what species of poo was being spread

But we also had haymaking and harvest and wet grass after rain.

Now I live a few yards from the sea and I can honestly say I rarely smell it. Maybe because there's no water around for a lot of the time... but when we do get a scent it's more like seaweed than sea air.

The smell I really associate with the sea is the smell of diesel as one boards a ferry or cruise ship about to set off across the Channel or North Sea or wherever... I find that very evocative. Also fish from boats in a small harbour - perhaps because I was brought up with the smell of fish as my grandad worked all his life on the fish market.

cashman · 23-06-2012, 12:48

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Having lived in the country for 18 years I got very good at working out what species of poo was being spread

Why on earth would yeh want to? Aint a thing thats ever floated my boat.

susie123 · 23-06-2012, 13:11

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Originally Posted by susie123

Why on earth would yeh want to? Aint a thing thats ever floated my boat.

Haha wasn't a deliberate thing Cashy - but they do smell different. My other half just seemed to know - he'd stick his nose in the air and say oh they're spreading pig sh1t today or whatever.

Also we got very used to the smell of chicken poo, first of all we had our own flock of birds and some friends of ours used to run one of those big broiler houses where they fatten up chicks for the table. Every six weeks they would have a crop (yes it only takes that long to grow to eating size) and we would go and get a trailer load of muck to rot down for the garden. The smell of ammonia was very good for the old tubes!

Plus we had two goats so we had a large muck heap from their stable as well. Shifted many barrow loads of that stuff in my time!

jaysay · 23-06-2012, 13:48

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Originally Posted by Retlaw

I thowt tha wur browt up propur, luks lyk A wur misten, tha nod supposed tu gi cheek tu thi Elders.

Duely noted granddad

MargaretR · 23-06-2012, 13:58

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Duely noted granddad

Water pistols behind the bike sheds at playtime?

jaysay · 23-06-2012, 14:03

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

Water pistols behind the bike sheds at playtime?

We're well past that Margaret, its got to the real thing at thirty paces in gatty park at dawn, but seeing we're both lazy sods neither of us ever makes it on time