I have to wear mine as without them I am completely deaf. One thing I have noticed is that I can actually hear birdsong as there is no background noise from traffic. Another hard of hearing friend and I found we could 'feel' the silence at the beginning of lockdown,maybe due to less vibrations around?
I do occasionally go hearing aid free around the house and garden and then my son frightens me to death by appearing at my side or tapping me on the shoulder!!!
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
I do occasionally go hearing aid free around the house and garden and then my son frightens me to death by appearing at my side or tapping me on the shoulder!!!
Whereas my Dad used to scare the life out of me sometimes because he was blind and didn't always remember to turn lights on when he went in to a room. I'd go into the kitchen and turn the light on and he'd be standing there, just stirring his tea
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
It's great to be able to shut out noise by taking them off. It's a bit like wearing sunglasses in bright sunshine. A relief! I can hear enough to get by but can't here the middle registers much. Although it can be a bit isolating, I'm not certain that , in this noisy world, that I would want full hearing back. I'd have to think hard. Shame we weren't provided with earlids as well as eyelids😒
That was the 60s in the N.East @B3 honestly you had to have been there it was classic C. Street. I expect you had a much happier adolescence in the south, not sheltered just liberated
How strange. I, too, grew up in the N. East in the 60s in a big town but I have to say I didn’t find it ‘classic C Street’ nor restrictive as opposed to ‘liberated’. Everybody has their own perceptions I suppose.
Ah, in the town eh @Helios bit more sophisticated there. I am talking about small, coastal, mining villages where expectations were low and the privy was out in the yard. Not just my perception I promise you, C Street was just like the back to backs in most of the mining villages.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Ok, herbaceous, I’ll give you that! Mind, a lot of my family lived in mining villages and they didn’t seem particularly ‘sheltered’ despite having outside lavvies😀
In 1968, I had a temp job in a factory that packed various products, and some of the women did actually used to go to work with their hair inrollers, they were rather horrible crude, unkind and sexist remarks to the young lads, YET, in private, they used to say things like "My Husband doesnt Bother me anymore", you know what they were refering to!! I am not high maintenance, by any means at the best of times, but I actually bought myself a Giverchy lippie, which is natural colour, and actually changes colour due to the PH of your skin on your lips,, so you get the perfect colour. I bought a MAC one which is gorgeous, but you put it on by the time you have reached the front door its worn off. It used to be said that women made their lips red, as it signified sexual (am I allowed to say that on here) arrousal, but I dont suit red lipstick or any dark colours at all. No, I agree, cant stand the "trout pout"
They didn't have the benefit of my Grandfather and the rest of my mother's mad family @Helios another cousin (more enlightened - different branch of the family ) used to say nobody would believe it if we ever wrote it down.
Its all changed now of course, the pitheads are museums and the back to backs are bijou terraces. The Working Men's Club is a wine bar and the best chippie in the N.East is a Greggs
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Whereas: I can happily do without shoes -she flings shoes- flip flop I can happily do without bra -she flings bra- flip flop
I have discovered that snotty, Marmitey hugs and kisses from my three year old grandson made me self-sufficient and able to resist all the commercial "wants" and what I actually only need is HUGS!!
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One thing I have noticed is that I can actually hear birdsong as there is no background noise from traffic.
Another hard of hearing friend and I found we could 'feel' the silence at the beginning of lockdown,maybe due to less vibrations around?
I do occasionally go hearing aid free around the house and garden and then my son frightens me to death by appearing at my side or tapping me on the shoulder!!!
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I can hear enough to get by but can't here the middle registers much.
Although it can be a bit isolating, I'm not certain that , in this noisy world, that I would want full hearing back. I'd have to think hard.
Shame we weren't provided with earlids as well as eyelids😒
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Its all changed now of course, the pitheads are museums and the back to backs are bijou terraces. The Working Men's Club is a wine bar and the best chippie in the N.East is a Greggs
Whereas:
I can happily do without shoes -she flings shoes- flip flop
I can happily do without bra -she flings bra- flip flop
I have discovered that snotty, Marmitey hugs and kisses from my three year old grandson made me self-sufficient and able to resist all the commercial "wants" and what I actually only need is HUGS!!
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