Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

Funny thing is when I was young we lived on an RAF camp at the end of the runway. We had fighter jets going past our back garden to land. They were very noisy, but not very often. Didn't mind at all.

 

Bit smug here. The only noise I have is from sheep and birds apart from the odd tractor, bliss. Having lived and worked in London I know “ the other side”! Not a huge surprise I have lived where I do for over 25 years and the plan is to come out of here in a box. I have many many really good friends and enjoy a pretty full social life but I also very much enjoy having no neighbours!

 

Not finding my magpies bliss at the moment, @hailbopp. You are welcome to them.

 

Most events, with the exception of music festivals, are only on for a few hours once a year. Locally we have people complaining about our local little airport. It's only used by private aircraft and a few very small commercials and helicopters. The airport was there before we moved here nearly 70 years ago. Those complaining have purchased properties built long after that, in the knowledge it's there. Back in the 60s and 70s they used to have a big air show to raise money for RAFA (the airforce charity) and motorbike racing several weekends per year. None of that happens now but they still moan.
I certainly understand people complaining about music festivals when they are held too close to housing. Bass beat travels a long way as does the music if the wind blows towards you. A cousin of mine lived about 4 miles from T in the Park in Scotland but you could hear the PA and music lyrics if the wind was blowing towards her house. She actually made the best of it by moving in with a friend for a few days and letting her house out.

 

Mine have disappeared I am glad to say.
Until not that long ago there was a saying that there were no Magpies in Fife as the farmers got rid of them. I am surrounded by farms so maybe that is the reason I have not seen either of the pair that built the nest for a while! I hope they will not return as have lots of fledglings about. I feel for you, they are such noisy, messy, destructive birds.

 

I live as the crow flies 11! miles from where T in the Park was held and I hate to think what it must have been like for residents of Kinross. I drove past the site the day after the event finished. My god the mess was unbelievable. I nearly crashed the car rubber necking at it. Wow young people must have an awful lot more money than I did back in the day. I went to the very first Glastonbury Festival and pretty much anybody who brought a tent took it home with them….not any more judging by what I saw, literally hundreds of discarded tents plus god knows all what. The underground gas pipeline must be loved by the locals!

 

It's a bit like the old American tourist joke who was looking round Windsor castle.

When asked she said its very nice but noisy, why did they build it so close to the airport.

 

As i said the park i use is onl6a couple of miles away probably less.
Every weekend in summer there is some event or other always involves loud music or a loud tannoy blaring out.

Any one who dares to complain is immediately cancelled on social media as an old misery, sometimes it overruns and can go on until 11pm.
The location is slap bang in the middle of lots of housing.

The cost of clearing the rubbish must run into millions every year.

 

We have norwich airport a few miles away but it has so few flights that it's not a problem. It doesn't stop all those that moved near to it complaining though.

The noisiest sound we have to put up with is the fighter jets, both American and British, flying over. They sometimes dog fight over the city and the afterburners are very loud.

There is the odd concert at the local footy ground and we can hear match days pretty loudly, it's probably a good job norwich don't score that much.

 

Now dogfights and afterburners would not bother me at all, not been to an airshow in years.

We get spitfires most days in the summer, they come from Biggin Hill, or Headcorn.

 

When we lived near Huntingdon in the 1960s the local USAF airbase would send its aircraft over our village and they would do a re-heat as dad called it. It nearly gave you a heart attack. So dad complained as he said it was unnecessary (he was an RAF pilot once). It stopped immediately. The planes were so low you could see their names. I remember one called Windy47.

 

It’s a lot quieter at Exeter Airport since Flybe went bust. A great shame, I did use them. Now we have holiday flights by Tui, who seem to have very noisy planes, and takeoff slots in the early morning and late evening. The Red Arrows came in for the night after the air show in Paignton yesterday. I do enjoy seeing and hearing the fast jets. When we were younger, OH and I would visit as many air shows as we could every year, both were mad on planes. Best shows were in the US, far less security and plenty of chances to get up close to the aircraft. Reno air races were a lot of fun!

 

I used to go to Mildenhall and Lakenheath in the 80s, I usually preferred the American air shows.
I was once on a flight to the US that had a group from the UK going to the Reno air races, never went myself.

 

I'm hoping the airport near me (Manston) reopens soon. There are moans that
it will ruin the town, the town was ruined by a very large complex that
opened 3 miles away taking most of the decent shops with it.
I say this: if you buy or rent a house near a football ground, pub, school or
airport, expect some noise.

 

The problem is that suburbia has expanded even faster than the airline industry's need for runways @cactus_girl. I remember reading a report of a converstaion between 2 USA women coming back form Windsor castle on a coach tour.

"It's very nice but I wouldn't have built it so close to Heathrow".

We mostly just get country noises here so tractors passing by or working in the fields, cows lowing and lots of birds and buzzies plus frogs and toads who are very noisy in the mating season and an occasional zoom by a couple of military jets. No idea where they come from or go to. All the commercial stuff flies very high so is only noticeable when they leave a vapour trail. The nearest airports are at Nantes and La Rochelle so both an hour's drive away.

There have been a few court cases recently of townspeople moving to the country and then complaining about church bells, farm noises, cocks crowing etc and wanting them shut down so now there is case law that says basically "moving to the country means accepting rural noises and smells".