On Saturday I was very busy. I got up early and spent the whole day in my garden. Early on the air was filled with the sound of bird song and the gentle rustling of the leaves in the trees but as the day progressed human activity drowned out the sounds of nature.

By 2pm the air was filled with the incessant scream of small two-stroke engines. A neighbour nearby had decided to cut his entire lawn using just his petrol strimmer. Has he never heard of a lawnmower? It would not have been so bad but he kept revving the engine up rather than keeping it at an even speed. To complement the strimmer a yobbo was cruising around the area on small motorbike which kicked up and awful din as he did circuits of the neighbourhood.

Then there was the ice cream van. If I hear the teddy bears picnic played by the chimes of the ice cream van once again I am going to scream. It would not be so bad if the van had several different tunes to play but the same monotonous tune over and over again is a bit much. The tune could be heard being belted out as the van approached in the distance and again as it went away to torment another part of Wycombe.

To round the day off as I lay in bed trying to drop off to sleep I was serenaded by several groups of drunken yobbos as they staggered along the road singing and shouting at the top of their voices.

Quite honestly I think there should be a law created to ensure that peace and quiet reigns in the suburbs of the town. There is so much talk about the environmental pollution from cars but very little is heard about noise pollution and the nuisance it causes. Does your part of town suffer from noise pollution or am I just unlucky that my area is blighted by the problem?