Yesterday, windows open in the warm weather, I heard what I took to be the long plaintive moo of a cow on a nearby farm, but it was only the sound of machinery, perhaps a builder’s circular saw cutting wood. There were farms in the village when we moved here twenty-five years ago but they are long-gone for housing, and I haven’t seen animals in the nearby fields for some time now.
Things change, and not always for the better.
ReplyDeleteWas only reporting, not evaluating.
DeleteSince suffering from hearing loss I often mistake sounds for something totally different. Can be quite embarassing sometimes!
ReplyDeleteIt most definitely sounded bovine, at least I think it did!
DeleteI am sure that there are fewer farm animals on the land than there used to be. When we enter the netherworld known as Brexitland many more farmers will be broken and so farm animal numbers will decline still further.
ReplyDeleteMy hopes are fading fast. I've never been so depressed about politics in my life.
DeleteWhat about The Great Depression of the 1930's? I know you would have just been a small boy then.
DeleteDid it affect you badly?
DeleteIt's MY joke! You are not allowed to bat it back to me you bounder!
DeleteIt hit my bat by accident and bounced to the boundary.
DeleteDo you like to scrap when leaving night clubs at 2am?
DeleteRight! 2 a.m. outside the Mojo.
DeleteMy fridge sometimes makes a mooing noise.
ReplyDeleteYou must have extremely fresh milk.
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