27th September 2019
There are many dramas occurring in Barrington, if it’s not the length of the grass on the verges, it’s the disruption caused by the visitors to the Court. Nicola and Colin have a particular issue at the moment concerning the recently opened children’s day nursery. There had been a school in the village many years before they moved there, but that had closed, and left the area much quieter. Now, starting at eight thirty in the morning the sound of young children in the playground drifts across the garden. My opinion is that is not intolerable, but it is eating into Colin. Their next door neighbour, Malcom has suggested an acoustical fence could be added to the top of the dividing wall, and they held a meeting to discuss the logistics and also the cost, something that Colin is particularly concerned about.
There is also the knock on effect of the parents dropping off their little cherubs, and the extra traffic that it creates.
Now as I walk through the village there are chains across every driveway, and even Nicola and Colin have one. I have been asked to put the chain across the drive when I leave. It must have been a bumper year for chain suppliers.
It is not my place to criticise people for not liking noise or blocking their property to stop others reversing into to it, but it saddens me to think we cannot tolerate just a little outside intrusion. Next we’ll be gaging our children to stop them making the sounds that makes us happy, as parents to hear.
Another Lifetime to go 