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Twas a lovely spring day out today 😎 in Devon at least.
The good - flowering gorse, like a giant macaroon air freshener.
The bad - it's muck spreading season. Retch.
The ugly - my cycling shoes. A winter of getting wet and drying near the radiator means they're starting to pong something awful!
You can't beat the wiff of GT85 in the morning
Good: dog-egg count noticeably down now its lighter and harder for scumbags to go unnoticed not picking up.
Bad: early season pollen allergies are starting to prickle, although that is more indoors than out as MrsP insists on having cut dafs and tulips in every room
You can’t beat the wiff of GT85 in the morning
You smell that? Do you smell that?... GT85, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of GT85 in the morning. You know, one time we had some stuck bolts sprayed for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked back to the shed. We didn't loosen one of 'em, not one stinkin' 5mm cap-ended. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole shed. Smelled like... victory. Someday this winter's gonna end.
Lol !
more indoors than out as MrsP insists on having cut dafs and tulips in every room
Mine too ☹️ she knows it sets off my hayfever, but still does it. I'm convinced she's trying to off me with an asthma attack for the life insurance money.
I’m convinced she’s trying to off me with an asthma attack for the life insurance money.
There are cheaper more reliable ways. She just likes to watch you in pain and discomfort that's all.
The good smells have to be the cut grass in the sun shine and the smell just after rain on a sunny day.
The bad, not a smell but looking at the devastation winter has wrought on the garden and realising how many hours riding I'm going to loose. (This year I'm mini digger-ing the whole lot though,so that's got to be fun right?)
The ugly, dog eggs everywhere again instead of just by the car parks and the smell as one lifts on your front wheel.
Yeah, but if it does work it's a clean kill with full deniability. Playing the long gane.
Good: dog-egg count noticeably down now its lighter and harder for scumbags to go unnoticed not picking up.
It’s the opposite around here. People are starting to walk their dogs again after cooping them up all winter. (I’m sure people don’t do this but it certainly feels like it!)
Swansea sea front, the path between the beach and the golf course. When it got warm in the last two years it stank of dog mess to the extent that I thought I must have poo on my face. Absolutely disgusting.
My brain has formed an association between muck-spreading and dry days and is starting to like the smell.
Other springtime smells include the whiff of the herd of MX bikers emerging noisily from hibernation, their raucous rattles echoing across the moorland as they spray gravel around in an elaborate mating display.
Fox poo is the worst .
After my own obvs.
Fox poo is the worst .
After my own obvs.
Have you done a blind test?
The good: tearing downhill, along single-track completely surrounded by a massive swathe of wild garlic (SSUK, on the Isle of Purbeck, several years ago)
The bad (and the ugly): Approaching the place where we'd seen a dead badger, at the side of the road, several days earlier. "Wasn't that dead badger somewhere around here?" - "Yes, I can smell it!" We didn't see it until about 500 metres later - despite it having swollen to about twice the size. (Avenue Verte - both ways, May 2016)
The good: tearing downhill, along single-track completely surrounded by a massive swathe of wild garlic (SSUK, on the Isle of Purbeck, several years ago)
Yup, that was lovely. Great weekend of riding (and drinking). I'm still proud that I won the worst tattoo contest 😆
HOTS (which is in about 5 weeks) always has a few sections that go through masses of wild garlic. Mmmm.
God I hate muck spreading. Reason I head to the trail centres as they tend to not be near farms.
Reason I head to the trail centres as they tend to not be near farms.
Have you tried this one? Guaranteed dairy-free.
http://www.mbr.co.uk/routes/trail-centres/lee-quarry-cragg-quarry-368972
I don't think we should be toning down 'muck' spreading. It's pure raw effluent shite and farm waste. Wouldn't be so bad if it's manure. Absolutely foul disgusting stuff that is eventually leading to massive health and environmental implications.
Good
Heather, just when flowering.
Scots pine forest on a warm morning.
Sea breeze, on the West coast.
Bad
My 13 year old, slipping one out when I'm behind pedalling up a hill. You gasp for a lung of clear air, and get eau de arse instead.
Dog bombs.
Ugly
You can smell pollution after a day out in the Highlands.
Slurry heaps - I know it's wingw, but I grew up around cattle and pigs, so it's a childhood thing.
I don’t think we should be toning down ‘muck’ spreading. It’s pure raw effluent shite and farm waste. Wouldn’t be so bad if it’s manure. Absolutely foul disgusting stuff that is eventually leading to massive health and environmental implications.
The technical term for the waste that is spread on fields is Biosolids - great euphemism for treated, semi-liquid, shite. I hate breathing it in as I cycle past, can't be good for you!
Just back from a couple of weeks by the med. Cedar forests on a hot day. Not much cedar around here but we've got eucalyptus plantations which smell nice.
I hate breathing it in as I cycle past, can’t be good for you!
Few weeks ago I was riding downwind of where they were spraying it onto the field from the roadside. I felt a cool, fine mist on my face then a taste I won't forget in a hurry. Smell and taste stayed in my head for hours afterwards - was googling for possible side effects but so far so good.
I do like the smell of those plastic wrapped hay bales on a warm day though. Sort of a beery fermented smell.