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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2017 14:58:21 GMT
That sounds just awful Bixa, I hope you were eventually able to get some rest and relief.
Here, fog horns from the river. Lovely. (they have been going on all this past week as this time of year early a.m. fog is common)
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 23, 2017 15:40:06 GMT
Thanks, Casimira. I dealt with it by putting on headphones and watching The Crown.
I love that sound of fog horns from the river. When I lived on State & Magazine (almost 45 years ago!) I could hear the fog horns at night and also the lions in the zoo.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2017 19:15:29 GMT
COOL
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Post by rikita on Jan 4, 2018 10:12:00 GMT
not much. some distant whooshing sound outside, maybe from a car on a wet road. and some sound from the water in the central heating - i suppose this means there isn't enough water in the system, once again ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 5, 2018 20:05:08 GMT
I hear "Chérif" season 5 starting on the TV upstairs. Must run up to see it. He is a police detective of Algerian ancestry (his name is an intended pun) working in Lyon.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 5, 2018 20:29:39 GMT
The tap-tap-tapping of Mr. Kimby building a perch for Pearl at the top of her scratching post. Pearl is intrigued with the project.
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Post by rikita on Jan 6, 2018 0:11:52 GMT
i hear some podcast in spanish but am not really listening - it started automatically after another podcast i had just listened to, and i am too lazy to turn it off ...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 5:43:51 GMT
Pelting shards of ice on my windows along with blustering winds.
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Post by bjd on Jan 17, 2018 6:18:38 GMT
We have wind warnings too and I hear the wind gusting in the chimney.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 19, 2018 13:23:43 GMT
I'm listening to the hail clattering on the roof. It has been going on longer than usual.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 19, 2018 16:53:46 GMT
There is yet another of Oaxaca's endless demonstrations going on. Whoever they are, they're on the march, as I can hear the noise rising and receding as they move around.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2018 21:23:54 GMT
Just before Mardi Gras for the past few years there is a group of 20 or more women who have a Latino type of drum corps (if you can call it that) and they rehearse at this time of day on the levee which is only a few blocks away. It is soooo cool!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 30, 2018 21:30:04 GMT
I left a football game playing on the television upstairs. I kind of enjoy listening to the commentary and the crowd noises when I don't actually have to look at the screen.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2018 4:56:28 GMT
You're weirder than I thought Kerouac. (no offense please).
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 31, 2018 16:40:01 GMT
The roof chihuahuas are at it again.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 31, 2018 16:52:01 GMT
My new neighbours have a yippy little dog. Luckily I can only hear it when I pass their door before going downstairs. This is the first animal in the building since the downstairs cat about 15 years ago.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 3, 2018 22:00:09 GMT
What I am not hearing is my closest neighbour's party tonight. She posted her pre-party apology downstairs this week, so I was curious as to how rowdy it might be, since she seems so calm. However since our building is actually two buildings that have been connected, the wall separating us is about 80cm thick, not a chance of any sound getting through. I opened my door to get an idea of the party a few minutes ago, and wow, that place must be crowded. I feel sorry for her, because I don't think she smokes but the whole corridor smells like a tobacco barn has burned down.
My other new neighbours (with the dog) are actually much more recent and have not held a housewarming party (yet). I heard one of them doing vocal excercises the other day, and it took me only about 5 minutes on the internet to discover that he is a professional singer and that he is the baritone founder of a group of eight male singers but that he was previously part of the French army men's chorus. I was informed by another neighbour that he is of Bangladeshi origin, but Facebook tells me that he went to high school in Avignon, so he may have been born in France. In any case, he and his husband seem very nice. I have almost always had good neighbours.
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Post by bjd on Feb 4, 2018 8:11:58 GMT
On Friday night our new housesharing student neighbours rang the bell to say they would be having a party. But the weather is so cold and crappy that nobody had their windows open and we didn't hear anything.
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Post by rikita on Feb 5, 2018 15:10:08 GMT
right now Agnes' constant chatter as she comments every detail of her game (while i say um and aha in varying tone).
at night unfortunately lots of snoring.
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Post by mossie on Feb 5, 2018 16:30:09 GMT
Rikita, is she sleeping on her back, because this will cause snoring. To cure her you need a pillow or bolster and us an old trick which my father learnt in Iraq in WWI. There he told the story of how the natives would relieve a man of the sheet he was sleeping on without waking him. Blow very gently in one ear, which makes him roll over. Roll the sheet up to his back and blow in the other ear. Roll the other side of the sheet and gently remove it. He will awake in the morning and find to his amazement that the sheet is gone. No wonder they earned the very non PC name denoted by the acronym standing for Wily Oriental Gentlemen.
You don't need to go quite so far. One roll will do, then place the pillow behind her back preventing her from rolling back. Peaceful sleep will hopefully result.
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Post by rikita on Feb 7, 2018 20:43:16 GMT
will try that on Mr. r. when we get home - currently i push against his elbow to get home to roll over... right now the snoring is from the people with whom we share a room during our Ski Trip, i fear it'd be rude to do that...
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 20, 2018 21:33:56 GMT
I am listening to the magnificent Hiam Abbass on the radio. Even though it was not her first film, she is saying that Satin Rouge (Tunisia 2002) was the movie that convinced her to continue acting. Her latest movie Corps Etranger is being released in France tomorrow, where she plays a social worker in Lyon trying to help migrants. The movie before that was Blade Runner 2049, so it just goes to show how incredible her career has been. She just corrected the interviewer who called her an Israeli actrress, since she was born in Nazareth and has an Israeli passport. But she is an "Israeli Palestinian." It should be noted that she is also the star of the movie Insyriated, which just won the best movie award at the Belgian Academy Awards.
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Post by rikita on Feb 21, 2018 1:31:28 GMT
listening to los kjarkas and all kinds of memories come with the music ...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 14:42:25 GMT
It's a lovely Spingtime Sunday morning. Windows open, lots of birdsong and then.....a LEAFBLOWER cranks up!!!!!
It's that time of year again.
8 a.m. on a Sunday morning? No respect.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2018 16:50:08 GMT
You need your own, battery-powered leafblower. That way you could sneak up behind the offender & turn yours on full blast at the back of his head.
Do read carefully and note that I wrote "leafblower" -- not "flamethrower".
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 26, 2018 12:08:57 GMT
My downstairs neighbour is having an unused chimney shaft removed from his apartment so it sounds like my own apartment is being destroyed since the shaft runs through both floors of my dwellng as well. I know it is made of very solid bricks because I myself (well, actually my father) punched a hole in the shaft many years ago as a hot air outlet for the air conditioner I had, and just that little round hole was hell to create. A mini jackhammer type thing is being used, alternately with a mallet and chisel. It is delightful. Normally I am not even home at this time of day, but as luck would have it today I am at home to appreciate it fully.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 26, 2018 12:32:37 GMT
I do hope they're making sure the remaining chimney stack is properly supported; neither of you would want it descending into their apartment! (The downstairs neighbours to my first flat didn't warn me they were having theirs removed, which was mildly disappointing, not because it was unsafe, but if I'd known, I'd have gone in with them to have my bit removed as well, which would have enabled me to remodel the flat to a more sensible layout). My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 26, 2018 16:45:59 GMT
Jeez, now I'm wondering if it's the chimney they're working on. It sounds like they are working right behind my desk, which is at least 2 metres from the chimney where I thought they were. But this has caused me to notice that the entire wall behind my desk must be composed of a series of flues. I had never thought about why there was a protrusion in that area, but obviously it is all flues -- at least three or four of them. If my neighbour is getting rid of all of them, I understand much better why he was so interested in getting extra space. Right now it sounds like they will be through my wall at any moment.
A few minutes ago I took a couple of bottles down to the bottle bin (don't bother to speculate on why I would have empty bottles in my apartment) and saw that there are currently 14 big bags of rubble piled up downstairs. The building should be much lighter when they are finished. Maybe we will float away.
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Post by mossie on Feb 26, 2018 19:19:32 GMT
More chance of finishing up downstairs by the sound of it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 1, 2018 5:09:12 GMT
11:08 p.m.
From somewhere nearby the sounds of a single trumpet are wafting up to my bedroom.
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