More Signs…

… that I’ve been here too long: I’m beginning to quite like the smell of sileage. Not slurry – that still smells like the worst nappy you’ve ever encountered, times a million – but when you walk past a stack of sileage bales there’s this warm, yeasty, fermenting-y sort of smell. It’s not exactly appetizing – not yet anyway – but I’m starting to find rather pleasant. Tell me you don’t feel the same.

No?

Just me then?

I’ll get me coat…*

* and hat, gloves, fleece, and extra socks. It’s still perishing up here.

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14 Responses to More Signs…

  1. Flighty says:

    There’s not much sileage to found here in surburbia so I really wouldn’t know!
    It’s still perishing here, and everywhere, at the moment! xx

  2. justwilliams says:

    The smell is OK. The time to worry is when you start liking the taste!

  3. disgruntled says:

    William – I think I’ll worry when I start considering eating it.
    Flighty – the nearest suburban equivalent is probably compost, another smell which can be pleasant

  4. yarb says:

    I feel the same. I was brung up with the sweet smells of hayseed and manure and they linger in my nostrils to this day.

  5. midwifemuse says:

    I can’t stand the smell when they ‘muck spread’, I wll never find it pleasant! I love the smell of hay though, it’s a warm smell.

  6. Flighty says:

    I’ve got two lots of compost on the plot which I’ll be combining into one at some stage so I’ll bear it in mind when I do!

  7. j says:

    As for ‘country smells’ – nothing beats the septic tank overflowing, coming home to find the kitchen sink & downstairs bath full of the backwash. People who’ve been badly flooded have an inkling – but at least that’s diluted. The best poo fountain we had was when the kids decided to flush their boat, made from a shoebox, down the upstairs loo. I got off the downstairs one pretty sharpish! Though I believe the japanese like toilets with integrated bidet ;-)

  8. Dom says:

    What is it today about sileage? Thought for the day this morning had the phrase ‘If the sileage bag of fate hits the windscreen of your car…’. Still, I know what you mean about the smell, it’s not entirely unpleasant.

  9. disgruntled says:

    We treat our septic tank with immense care and reverence & just hope we never get to experience its displeasure.

    I think lots of people (i.e. me, before I moved here) muddle up sileage with slurry, which is the stuff that really gives us that ‘fresh country air’ smell.

  10. Paul says:

    ** scarf … you forgot the scarf!!

  11. disgruntled says:

    And that’s just indoors…

  12. Kal says:

    I like the smell of silage. It makes me feel like a kid again.

  13. disgruntled says:

    Steve – indeed
    Kal – plus you know how to spell it, it seems. Whereas I don’t… the advantages of a rural childhood

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