General Chat

Late Father in Law apparently grew the most tasty celery with the contents of the loo and the chicken sheds

I don't remember him growing celery but his veg were very good and he did once grow an enormous pumpkin.

I bet he grew brillaint celery Sharron :-D :-D :-D

The last place I knew seaweed to rot in abundance was at Felpham and, boy, did that send up!

The house I lived in until I was ten had an outside bucket lavvy and a pit up the garden where it was left to rot with straw.

Fred would dig it out occasionally and spread it on the garden, as had several previous generations of the family.

The guzunders were emptied into the ditch in the morning.

One such collector had said to me that it was top class waste because it was passed by management, it wasn't until many years later that I understood what he meant.

:-D

What about the outside toilets where the human waste had to be taken away, don't think the snowflakes could deal with that.

Ah, but Sharron. I did clarify it by saying it was really the seaweed - along the Worthing area coast line. This was in the days they just left it to rot.

We have a dairy farmer just down the road and on a hot day you need to hold your nose as you walk past the fields. Thinking about it it smells in the cool weather too.

You would have to be pretty close to smell the sea.

I can only remember being able to smell it from home once and the was probably around 1960. That must have been the wind behind a spring tide I would think, puffing it up our way.

Each Easter holiday we would travel from S W London to the south coast competing to see who could smell the sea ( the seaweed really) first. I don’t remember a competition to see who could smell the London smell first.

Evolving quickly here

All the flocks went long ago, I doubt there are any bullocks in the village now and only one dairy farm which makes ice-cream now.

The two LSA are gone so there is not much horticulture now even.

It's turning in to a posh housing estate where we oiks can't afford to live.

We have mainly cereals, onions and sprouts around here

Have only ever encountered one onion harvest but most of our local arable farms are lettuce prairies now so I don't always get my dose of cereal harvest aroma anymore.

You would do alright here then Sharron I am surrounded by fields. The only smell that gets to me is the Onion Harvest it fair makes your eyes water :-D.

I am glad to be well away from there now Island I lived in North London and have nevder regretted moving away in 1970. I visit my cousin who still lives there and I can't wait to get back here.

I think my two favourite smells in the world are ploughing and harvest.

I'm with you there LG. We used to escape to SE Wales in the summer, blue skies, fresh air...... then as we drove back home along the M4, as we approached the outskirts of London, we could see the yellow grey sky and soon smelled that heavy pongy air. Soon got used to it again but we knew we were breathing in filth.
:-|

I find London has a dead smell all of it's own :-P I never really noticed it when I worked in the centre of it but I do now when I visit

Bu that smell stayed with me right up to Leeds.

It was like the north, south divide even had different aromas.

Stewartby was a huge brickmaking area and ponged a lot. I live a few miles from it and with the wind in the right direction you could smell the sulphur.