h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I can hear:-

1. Traffic on the A1 about 2 miles away.
2. My partner breathing (she will snore later).
3. The fan cooling my computers CPU.

PP

The sea
The wind
occasionally people singing - last night for instance about 4am there was the most fabulous Spanish song being sung somewhere out there in the mist.

The gentle susurrus of my hopes evaporating.

That and the bloody wood pigeons.

Crickets, a distant owl, nothing else...

Too early to actually be *in* bed right now, but most nights I hear:

the furnace blower (central air con)
faint traffic sounds (we're just a few doors down from a main thoroughfare, but the traffic noise sounds much further away)
cats purring
the leaky tap in the bathtub dripping

A low hum/vibration type noise... I always think its something to do with the pipes and radiators, but they're not on at the moment... so maybe not...

Traffic, car alarms, police/fire/ambelence noises...

at the moment, morefoten thna not, the sound of a pigeon or pigeons cooing out on the balcony/window ledge.

the sound of the PC in the front room downstairs, if its still on.

The slight noise given off by the charger for the toothbrush if its on charge...

useuallly a few cats outside at some point...

depending what night of the week it is, and if its term time, the sound of people coming back from the clubs...

and at specific times, the sound of the big truck/van delivering newspapers to teh newsagents and shop up the road, nextdoor getting up for work, early and wearing big workman style boots as he runs down the stairs

Sometimes other birds tweating and making whatever bird noises they make...

and, if its on, I can hear the boiler running in the utility room downstairs.

and useually a few times a week police pulling up outside following a big shouting smashing things fighting type of domestic thing in the middle of the street.. Though that seems to have been abscent a bit recently...

I can hear low flying aircraft, loud explosions and a lot of screaming ...

Liverpool?

Normally the OH snoring (but of course he doesn't)

The cat padding about on the stairs and jingling her collar to go out.

First thing in the morning seagulls squawking

This morning I heard number 1 son suggesting to number 2 son that it would be a good idea for there to be another baby in the family, because then that baby would be the baby and so number 2 son wouldn't be have to be the baby anymore, and so could be a boy, like him.


Geggs

The poxy A12.

When the central heating is on, I can hear that. Depending on the time of year and time of day I can hear birds (blackbirds, sparrows, starlings, wood pigeons, corvidae). At any time I can hear a high-pitched sound (tinnitus).

The ticking sounds made by the radiator cooling, the wind whistling round the building, OH breathing (definitely not snoring!), and the occasional aircraft taking off or landing next door.

RF

Mice.

(Although I never lie quietly, Im told. Im always making a noise like a cement mixer filled with scrap metal.)

Buses, lots of buses as I live just opposite a bus depot. Plenty of emergency vehicles as I live less than a mile from a major ambulance station, fire station and police station and my road is an important north-south link as well as the main access road to a large estate. Trains as a railway line cuts across my road about 200 metres from my house. Drunk people going to/away from the 24 hour McDonalds at the end of my road. Currently lots of fireworks celebrating Muslim weddings (that'll stop once Ramadan starts).

Thankfully I'm a heavy sleeper.

The OH snoring. The dog snoring/grumbling/barking in his sleep. At some point in the night nocturnal animals, both domestic and wild. Occassionally the sound of a rabbit or fox cub meeting a sticky end in the claws of the birds of prey that hang out in the woods at the top of the field. Every 15 minutes my neighbour's poxy clock that insists on chiming the hour, quarter past, half past and quarter to. Sometimes the boiler clunking.

Depends which house I'm in.

In Belfast, the traffic on the Sydenham by-pass is pretty constant, though I can have a rather good guess at the time of night from the volume of the rumble.

At 6 am, trains. And at 6.45, the first flight of the day taking off from George Best airport.

In Lisburn, the M1 is about 1/2 a mile away, so the traffic noise is really subdued from it. The jangle of the dog's collar as he tries to persuade me that 5 am is breakfast time. Rhythmic breathing. And the constant whine in my head (does no-one else have this?) If it's very quiet, I can feel my heart beating.

(I'm sure I wrote a Post article on this once, hang on.....)

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Last night I had collared doves and pigeons, plus a car alarm, quite a way off in the distance, useual more nearby traffic and periodic emergency services going past the top of the road, and just the two bounts of loud shouting in the street from students/drug-addicts/alcoholics/down-and-outs/people returning from the pub/neighbours and as it was quite quiet for here, I could hear my blood pumping about/my heartbeat... and the unidentifiable low hum noise which I useually attritube to the central heating pipes, even when like now the heating isn't on Then I was rudely awakened by the phone ringing... no idea who it was though I didn't answer and the number looks like one I don't know, probably someone trying to sell me something