Noisy Norton

Attention seeking, me?

For some reason everything was noisy at Norton Conyers yesterday. It started when Giles was called to the house for most of the morning, he shut the garden gates and left Shandy with us as she would only be a pest. She was reasonably content at first, happily accompanying us inside at break time being somewhat placated by having a yoghurt pot to lick out, but when Alyson and I returned to building plant supports in the main border she decided she'd had enough and wanted to know where her master was. This meant taking up sentry duty by the gate and barking very loudly for a long time until he returned. Our peace was further shattered by two kids riding a quad bike around the estate just beyond the walls, bunking off school no doubt! The sheep seemed especially mournful too, baaing repeatedly all morning. Couple that with the wind moaning, the tractor grass cutting, me wielding the petrol mower and Wortek using the strimmer and it would have been more peaceful on a city street! Please can we have some calm warm languid days next week?

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak"
Michel De Montaigne