Date 15th August 2011
Read on, for matters of little consequence!
It appears that Smiths Farms younger generation may be moving into the field (of Rave parties). To be precise the field next to Lee over Sands, but also not too far from the Smiths’ respective homes in nearby Wigboro Wick.
I was on the phone to Guy Smith at 4.30am yesterday morning, when the field rave nearby changed up a gear, boosting the sound to ‘raising the dead’ levels, & playing havoc with my sleep pattern. Guy must have been at his desk the speed he picked up the phone, and instantly referred me on to his brother Philip Smith, who unsurprisingly was not responding at 4.30am .
The party continued the following day and whilst propping up my eye lids with match sticks that afternoon, I decided to telephone Philip again to try and head off another potentially sleepless night. I was asking Philip for reassurance the sound system would not be turned up in the small hours when we were trying to sleep on a second night running. Philip was unwilling to give me this re-assurance, but it wasn’t long before he asked if we were going to sign a water agreement, although which water agreement he was not quite sure about. I had to put the phone down in the end when one of my matchsticks collapsed under the strain of my emulsified eyeballs. It was a relief when the party goers finally called it a day and not a second night. We understand Ben Smith is responsible for the rave, happy birthday Ben, live long & prosper!
The following day, whilst ‘walking my dog’ by the sea wall next to the party site, I realised the Hay stack wall we had all been a little perplexed by, was the best possible sound proofing between the party and the Smith brothers respective homes nestling out of view in the back ground behind it. Another resident took the view the Hay stack was actually designed to funnel sound directly at us. There was certainly nothing to prevent the sound coming our way.
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous Postings are not allowed on this blog as it is considered to be hiding your identity. With this in mind, "Polaris" I have removed your comment posting. If you use your real name and re-post I will leave the comment in.
ReplyDeleteGet your facts right.
ReplyDeleteBen Smith does not exist except in your imagination, it was a private party for adults unrelated to the Smiths on land with permission (therefore not a 'rave') and elicited just one moan (as predicted) from a serial complaint artist.
If you came and asked us you would have been invited to join in or we would have offered to turn the sound down, but you chose to use it as an excuse to have a go at the Smiths over a dispute which is nothing to do with the other St Osyth residents who were enjoying themselves.
On the advice of a sound engineer, the hay wall faced west, not south towards Wall St and the prevailing wind was from the west and south as it always is this time of year.
I don't give a monkeys about your water supply, but as a disinterested third party, it appears to me you've had 20 years of free water, so perhaps you should just pay for it like everyone else and stop polluting the environment with your whinging over a distant sound on one night of your miserable grumpy life.
We are locals too who put this party on, we all had a great time and brought some positive energy and smiling faces to our village. What have you ever done for it?
As they say, there's always one...
Ben Highbank
St Osyth
Tru dat polaris, only complaint i've heard from any villiagers is from you, 'a serial complaint artist'. Give it a rest and pay for your water, you're not exactly in a situation to get self righteous.
ReplyDeleteDrew Peakock
11 Mill Street (feel free to come round and ask for me, i would love to discuss this further)
Lets keep it on topic. I think Ben's points in his response are valid and well balanced, and as I said to Andy it was a one off occurence, so lets forget about one night's fun.
ReplyDeleteI will say this though. Lets keep to the relevant facts in each posting.
Please remember when commenting that this public community blog is for Lee-Over-Sands residents, who have a right to raise their views about what concerns them and their life in our small community, and is a place where they should be allowed to voice their own opinions without fear or intimidation, whatever your own personal opinions might be about non related matters. E.g. the water supply. If non-residents or for that matter residents comments become too abusive or intimidating they will be removed!
Yeah, give it a rest.
ReplyDeleteDan Gleighballs