We're on holiday in Norfolk again, a small village not far from the coast and by gum it's quiet. Virtually no traffic, nobody wandering past babbling loudly into their mobile phone, no aircraft from East Midlands Airport droning overhead, no cars rushing past emitting a thud, thud, thud of dork "music".
I exaggerate of course, our little corner of Derbyshire isn't particularly noisy at all, only when compared to a dark night in a tiny Norfolk village. Which has reminded me to check if the Noise Abatement Society is still around - and it is. I haven't heard anything from them for ages.
Click quietly and they are to be found here. A worthy cause in my view - noise is not uplifting.
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We live in what is classed as a rural area, but it can be quite noisy. In towns you get a steady hum or roar of background noise, but here there are periods of silence and then sudden loud noises. Farming can be quite noisy, especially at harvest. Lots of people have petrol chainsaws and leaf-blowers. Sunday mornings are like a race-track as clubs and individual drivers of fancy cars come roaring through the village. (That thing that 17 year old kids do in their mum's car - revving the engine while looking around to see who they have impressed - it's amazing that extremely wealthy blokes in their fifties and sixties do that with vintage sports cars and Harley Davidsons...) Recently we have had the Chinook helicopters from Odiham thundering overhead doing practice runs at the South Downs.
I walk our dog very early every morning and choose a country lane, as although the village is a lovely place, the school buses, the 4 x 4s and the white van men make for far too much noise!
The furthest part of the walk takes in some fields which are far removed from the lane, and the peace and tranquillity are just marvellous!
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The pic at the bottom of this post shows what we get sometimes and breathing becomes ecstatic...
Enjoy your holiday!
Quite agree, I’m signing up.
The Norfolk village we favour doesn't even have a signal for my mobile phone. (Not that I keep it switched on anyway.)
I live in a small village in western France. It is very quiet here. I live in a cul-de-sac and, most days, the only vehicle we see is La Poste van. The rear garden is surrounded by woods, so our exposure to agricultural noise is very little
I am always amazed when I look at the Deaths as recorded in my local newspaper for the region around here is that the average age is about 85 years. From time to time we get some youngster in their late 60s.
For record, I am 86 and in good health, my only neighbour is 90, but her health is a little 'fragile'. We both live alone and have done so for nearly 30 years.
"Silence is golden"
Rural silence: the quadbike rounding up cows for milking at 4am, the bull bellowing, tractors nucking, flying machine practice at Henstridge and HMS Heron…
Whenever it wasn't too muddy I used to go to and from secondary school using a short cut across a pasture. The Ladies and I were always courteous to each other. I have therefore never understood how people occasionally get themselves killed by cows. What on earth do they say to them?
Stirks are different: I once had to vault a hedge to escape from some.
Sam - there is nothing like that round here. Maybe Norfolk folk are naturally quiet and relaxed.
Scrobs - even moderately busy roads seem to be a problem. Get away from those and the noise can be almost gone.
James - I'll probably keep an eye on their website.
dearieme - I remember a hotel in the Lake District where I had to lean right out of the bedroom window to pick up a weak phone signal.
DAD - maybe there is something healthy about peace and quiet. It certainly feels like it at the moment.
djc - nothing like that round here. Heard a red kite recently and we do sometimes hear a tooting sound from a miniature steam railway.
dearieme - we've never had a problem with cows, but when crossing cow fields, we avoid anyone with a dog and keep our distance if there are calves around. We once encountered a group of bullocks which decided to thunder around the field and we could feel that through the ground. Quite alarming but we were near the exit from the field.
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