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Had a good day on the allotment today.a bit of digging,a lot of muck spreading and some tidying up,spoiled somewhat when the kids in the school next door were let out at playtime and,it seems emitted a cacophany of squeals and screams all the way through it.
This form of communication appears to be prevalent in this day and age.Is it to be noticed so that they get their own way or the inability to speak properly?
Just an idle thought whilst having a banana and a cup of tea in between bouts of spreading manure.

I always find an iPod useful at school playtime. Failing that a catapult.

I think you'll find that this has always happened.
We didn't have t'internet, on which to complain about it, before.

infants or teenagers?

Infants,richard p

There's an infants' school within ear-shot of my house and I've noticed that they are particularly wild, noisy and rush about screaming, when it is windy.

There does seem to be a trend for them all to shout over one another instead of speaking to each other. I wonder if they are all deaf? I'm sure most of the teenagers are with music blasting into their ears through ear phones all the time. I wonder if they can think and listen at the same time, or whether their minds are just blank?

Morning Snooky, i think young children have always been like this.

I remember once mentioning the exact thing, i was told by a very stern old lady, that when i was a boy at school she could hear my voice half a mile away at the village bus stop.

Not sure bout our dear Pongeroons answer of a catapult, i have heard children go to school well armed these days.

We lived for 18 years in a School House adjoining the school and playground, the noise never bothered me infact I think it is lovely to hear children outdoors and playing and thats Grandma talking

Hi Gilly,
I always find the high spirits, laughter and screaming of children most uplifting. At the time this is happening they are generally running about wildly. The vibrant next generation! Wonderful!
JB.

They drive me crackers, but then I just don't like children.

We have a Rugby Club next to our site and every weekend we have rugby matches or training (the swearing ) plus football training and in the summer dog agility shows (the barking )

I love the week when it's peaceful, until summer evenings when all of the above are at it again

Chantal

I can go one better...we have a Rugby training field next to the allotment site on one side and a school playing field/playground on the other.

Thankfully the Rugby field is too far away to hear any swearing and the kids are not 'quite' old enough just yet...

To hear the children playing happily oblivious to the turbulant world around them takes me back to those halcyon days of my own youth

Children,what brilliant things they are,i love to hear their squeels and laughter,they keep me young,i find it such a shame that people moan about them,after all ,werent they once children who loved to laugh and run around themselves,or were they the grummpy things they seem to be now.

Well said

I like hearing the kids too.........it's the sodding teenages who get right on my............nerves

Small children or teenagers, I don't mind them being happy and noisy, it's the moaners and whingers who get me. If they have a complaint, I'd rather they shout it out than moan and whinge, at least that's what I used to tell my children and grandchildren.