Cockerels, chocolate teapots and door chimes

Cut up the cake give a big bit to the cockerel to silence his cluck, shove some more of it in the next doors doorbell then have a large gin.

Teetime

Or halve the cake and freeze some

Definitely freeze some of the cake, the cockerel won't appreciate it. The bird should quieten after a day or two when he fails to get a response and knows he's top bird. If not, barbecue season is coming! Our cheap B&Q door chimes occasional deviate from a quick burst of Big Ben to Dixie for no known reason. It is an option we've never chosen!

Teetime ?

The cockerel is back-at dawn and ever since. Not amused.

I know we used to live near one but it went on all day.

Doorbell: I have one that goes on for quite a while. lets the visitor know it is ringing and gives me time to get to the door.
It isn't Dixie but it is the longest offered with the bell

Eat the cake. Watch Beauty and the Beast and your earworm will change to one of its songs. The cockerel will continue to crow because it's warning off other cockerels even though there aren't any. Eventually like an annoying machine hum you or aircraft passing over you won't hear it anymore.

If you haven't already cut into the cake (haven't RTWT) why not take a photo of it on your mobile? That way you can still look at it and delight in its beauty. Have your cake and eat it, as it were.

My friend had a cockerel a couple of years ago but neighbours complained to the council and she had to get rid of it.
Re the cake, please send me your address and I will dispose of it for you
I think your neighbours will soon get fed up with the doorbell
Have a cuppa x

We have a local cockerel who crows off and on all day-everyone has just got used it now but I'm glad I don't live next door!
Chocolate cake no problem,just eat it!
As for the doorbell,is there a knocker or letterbox flap you could use instead?

Our neighbours have trees in their gardens, and three families of crows live in them. The racquet every morning is a nightmare. Give me a rooster any day!

My lovely cake-am having slice for elevenses then freezing half. Cockerel still at it but haven't had to ring any doorbells yet!! We also have crows in nearby woods and seagulls overhead-oh and helicopter flights to offshore installations. I hope cockerel noises will disappear into general background noise-who said the countryside was quiet?

Behind my neighbour's back fence is a large chicken run - about thirty birds. When we first moved in there was a cockerel who wasn't particularly noisy but did let you know he was there! We haven't heard or seen him for some time now. I do hope it is because he's quietened down and not some more sinister reason. He was a handsome chap. As for your doorbell, ever since I read your OP that bloody tune has stuck in my head and I can't get rid of it. Perhaps some of the cake would help?

How beautiful is that cake, i too would be loathe to cut into it, so i would take a photo like you have done to treasure and then just go for it and enjoy!!!!

I saw the cake at m&s on Friday, thought it looked large but yummy can you freeze it? If so cut in slices and stick in separate bags and just have a piece when you feel like it.

Just for you greyduster.......!!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5OKdbc0DYpM

Cake looks yummy, as I'm on my own I would have to slice & freeze.

My neighbours have a pair of seagulls who nest on their roof each year from February to November they raise a pair of young every year. Noise starts at 4am once it's light at that time & goes on all day, can't do anything whilst they're nesting or raising young. From the noise you'd think we had flocks of them

Countryside is never quiet, we get a lot of helicopters as I live on the edge of Dartmoor, not as bad as when I lived just out of Yeovil, Westland & RNAS Yeovilton on the doorstep, you do get used to the noise. Hope cockrel soons quieten down.

As for doorbell, I'd just bang on the door

Thanks for that, Katek - just what I needed! . There is, however, a version sung by Elvis Presley, and while I was never a fan of his, it is lovely and worth a listen.

We had a cockerel next door to us when we lived in Orkney, his name was "Feck" for obvious reasons ??

I think you have the right idea Teatime - in particular the large gin! Go for it Kate. xx

The only thing worse than cockerels is screaming peacocks! Drove my parents and their neighbours mad. Eventually they had to go to court, not only for noise, but they ruined everyone's gardens and actually began dunting the cars!

Many houses built in the twentieth century have clauses which forbid the keeping of domestic poultry. Check to see if you neighbour is falling fowl ( sorry) of this rule. If so, threaten a court action.

Did you hear about the Inuit who was so cold in his boat that he lit a fire in the bottom?
Unfortunately this burnt through and the boat sank!
This proves that you can't have your kayak and heat it!?