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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 1, 2022 5:44:36 GMT
Personal fireworks are forbidden in France, but I heard a few rockets and firecrackers outside at midnight, definitely far fewer than in pre-covid times.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 1, 2022 5:57:41 GMT
From my terrace with a 180 degree view of the coast, fireworks of all makeup are blossoming, making loud noises that set off car alarms that add to the wonderful racket. The smell of cordite mixed with weed fills the air. Truly a marvelous way to ring out a miserable stinking year. And your wonderful description just added a touch of literary delight to the final three minutes of 2021.
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Post by patricklondon on Jan 1, 2022 11:42:31 GMT
It turns out that the official London fireworks were taking place just down the road from where I live (no prior announcement so as not to encourage people to gather). My niece who lives nearer there says their floor shook at some points - I thought someone had gone to a lot of trouble. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 1, 2022 17:19:27 GMT
They pulled out all the stops!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 1, 2022 18:09:38 GMT
France has not yet used the illuminated drone formations for any celebrations, but it can't be far off.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 2, 2022 5:29:05 GMT
The Beatles, playing all their hits.
PBS is airing a special featuring FabFour a tribute band. They sound very much like the Beatles and are good musicians too. With my aging eyes, the Paul and George impersonators are pretty good, Ringo is OK, but John Lennon not so much of a lookalike.
The costume changes as the band worked its way through the repertoire over the years added to the verisimilitude.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 7, 2022 22:18:19 GMT
The dogs & I went on a very long walk, first to pay the light bill, then on to the good bank that gives more $ at the ATM & with miniscule fees. After that we stopped at the library, then went to the big park so they could be off leash. We were really grateful to be getting home after all that, except ...........
There is an ugly car parked right by the house -- a Trans-Am or something similar -- with one of those sort of whistly alarms sounding continuously: weeeooweeoooweeooweeeooweeoooweeooweeeooweeoooweeooweeeooweeoooweeooweeeooweeoooweeoo.
It will pause for a split second at random intervals, I guess to add to the psychotic irritation of it all.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 9, 2022 22:58:37 GMT
I'm in the living room & can hear Harley dream-barking in the dining room. He always seems to have a very active dream life.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 6, 2022 21:51:39 GMT
Without hearing it on the news yet, I know which team just won the Africa Cup final, because there are a lot more Senegalese in Paris than Egyptians. I think it is raining too hard for it to be a long noisy night, but the cheering should continue for at least an hour.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 12, 2022 5:10:37 GMT
Oh no! The food stand that operates at night in front of my house is playing the Spanish version of "Going to the Chapel". This song has been a major earworm for me since my early teens.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 20, 2022 13:57:53 GMT
The bell is ringing like a fire alarm to tell us that the performance is starting in five minutes.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 20, 2022 16:28:05 GMT
We just had a terrific hail storm....very noisy.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 20, 2022 18:05:50 GMT
Hope there was no damage, Cheery!
I could hear my wind chimes late last night from upstairs in my bedroom & wondered if they were disturbing the neighbors. After a few seconds of wondering if I should go downstairs & tie the chimes, I went to sleep.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 3, 2022 11:03:13 GMT
The church bells of the EU are ringing right now for 7 minutes, one minute for each day of the war in Ukraine.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 4, 2022 21:41:45 GMT
Last night at the lake cottage, coyotes were barking and yipping like hyenas in the dark. We couldn’t tell how any there were because we couldn’t see them, but there were more than one. Maybe a mated pair. This is the second time in recent weeks they’ve done their thing on our shore. I like them, but the ranchers hate them and many will shoot them on sight.
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Post by casimira on Mar 14, 2022 16:34:56 GMT
Some carpenters working on a house next door to where we are blasting a radio as they work. There is no way they can hear it because of the noise from their machinery but, I can certainly hear it. After awhile I walked over there to ask them to please turn it down. I lied and said it was disturbing my granddaughter. They finally turned it down.
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Post by casimira on Apr 22, 2022 14:51:58 GMT
Dueling leaf blowers and one weed whacker. All three at full throttle. GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 22, 2022 15:20:37 GMT
The building across the street is being renovated, but since it is the back side from my flat, I never look out that window. So every now and then I hear the muffled sound of work machines or hammering, not enough to disturb me, just enough to confuse me until I remember what is happening. It is a major project, because the building really needed some work.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 24, 2022 12:07:15 GMT
Rustle of palm fronds Cardinal whistling from a tree Waves lapping the shore
(Haiku for Sanibel)
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Post by casimira on Apr 24, 2022 13:55:45 GMT
Lovely Kimby!
I am really missing being in my wildlife garden and spying all the Spring migratory action over there.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 29, 2022 10:43:06 GMT
Alexa playing Ry Cooder while I have a coffee.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 29, 2022 10:43:46 GMT
Rustle of palm fronds Cardinal whistling from a tree Waves lapping the shore (Haiku for Sanibel) That’s nice Kimby.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2022 18:19:12 GMT
Sounds like peace on earth, Kimby.
Ry Cooder is always a winner, Mick.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 29, 2022 18:30:49 GMT
Deathly silence here, probably because there is a big hospital between the hotel and the main road.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2022 23:40:29 GMT
Sounds like Quasimodo on steroids here, as the wind is doing a number with the wind chimes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 11, 2022 21:51:13 GMT
Oh joy. Gloria Trevi has a concert tonight in the open auditorium on the hill above my house. The sound checks & apparently some rehearsing have stopped now, but they were a harbinger of what I can expect to endure later tonight.
I have no idea why, but the sound comes to me as very loud chanting in every concert. It never sounds like fast music, which surely it must be at times. Even the sound of the crowds mutates into weird droning chanting noise. The exception to this is bass, which sounds the way overly loud bass always sounds.
The sky is getting quite dark right now, even though it's not quite five o'clock. I'm trying not to be a petty self-absorbed person who'd wish for the concert to be rained out.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 21, 2022 19:23:57 GMT
The Fête de la musique is very definitely back after two years of purgatory. I can hear the performers in front of the McDonald's very clearly in my flat.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 23, 2022 6:58:38 GMT
And then I went to see them. I love that things returned to the basics, with amateurs just having fun.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 24, 2022 20:56:03 GMT
At this moment there is a huge water tank truck on my street, with its loud, vibrating pump going. Along with that there is work -- drilling, I thin -- going on next door in the house partly attached to mine. I can tolerate those noises since they are necessary to the work being done. What is putting me around the bend is whichever vehicle parked somewhere near hear with its sound system cranked so that the effing bass is pulsating throughout my house.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 28, 2022 16:16:48 GMT
One wall of my patio is the wall of the next-door neighbor. When I moved in, I got the landlords to allow me to install extra panes of glass over the windows overlooking my patio, as I could pretty much hear any residents there breathing or changing their minds.
The neighbor I have now is an American man of my age who goes into cursing fits. He's supposedly frail, but his lungs are in fine form. The thing about his cursing is that instead of saying, "Damn it!" or similar, like normal American cursing, it's always directed at "you". One of his standards is, "Fuck you, you son of a bitch", and he has others in that vein or stronger.
Other than that, he is usually pretty quiet except when (I suspect) he's particularly hung over. Then he'll bellow, "Shut up, you [insert expletive here]" at the top of his lungs at my dogs (who honestly are not very barky) or at a car alarm out in the street or, as the other night, at a vacuum cleaner someone is running.
He just had one of his little shitfits, but has lapsed back into silence.
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