As a child, my bedroom faced a dual carriageway. I find the hum of traffic - not motorbikes - quite comforting at night but not during the day and not in the garden. I can shut off a lot of my hearing by removing my hearing aids. If offered the chance to have my hearing fully restored without the need for hearing aids, I'm not certain that I'd take it.
Similar to us Bee, there a house up the hill, can’t be seen by us and too far away to hear them but she applied for permission to open a small equestrian centre, I don’t know it she actually completed the work but we expected the odd horse box or lorry, it didn’t happen but they do go riding by here at weekends, never more that 3 or 4 though. Apart from that we can’t even see another house. Not much traffic goes up the lane, my previous cat used to sleep in the middle of the lane. I think myself very fortunate to have this, if it wasn’t for my dad I wouldn’t, all the boundaries are ours, no arguing about who does what with the hedges. Just a corner of a field. Beautiful.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
It is a bit of a design fault that we can't switch off our ears, unless via a hearing aid device. Curious really! I sometimes wonder, if the sounds and vibrations that intrude into my garden and home happened at the same sort of time/day for the same sort of duration each time, would that be less stressful? I think it would. Some of the noises do have a pattern. I do get annoyed when I regularly step outside and then find I have mistimed it and the noise starts up a few minutes later.
For me, I think it is the accumulation of noise from every direction that gets to me and the feeling of having 'no escape'. Some types of noise never stops. Extractor fans that run continuously can be awful and worsen over time, as the machinery wears out, for instance.
I do find the distant hum of traffic quite comforting too - but it needs to be steady, with no junctions or traffic lights disrupting the pattern.
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I don't think I have ever heard Concorde apart from on TV clips, @Lyn. Could you hear it coming from a great distance? Did you get used to it? Poor doggie. It is getting to that time of year too with fireworks season isn't it, where animals get spooked. I feel sorry for animals like horses, who I think can feel it badly and bolt.
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No, you don’t hear it coming, not as an aeroplane, you just hear a sudden Boom Boom then it’s gone.
They tried to say it wasn’t from Concorde, it’s suppose to do that when it reaches the ocean, but it was exactly at 9 pm every night, I suppose with the speed they couldn’t quite make it to the ocean.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
It’s part of our early warning system for possible danger, and probably still more useful now than our sense of smell! Unlikely to detect any approaching predators by their smell (although handy for gas leaks and smoke)
With the wind in the right direction, we can hear traffic on the concreted surfaces of the A30. One summer, we were kept awake by very noisy music, which I assumed was from a party somewhere in the village. Turned out that it was sound carried from the Sidmouth Folk Festival, over ten miles away. Just a fluke of the wind direction that night.
We also hear the late night Mail plane taking off from Exeter airport, but only if we are still awake, I’m not aware of it otherwise.
I was once in a meeting in the old air traffic control tower at Heathrow (this would be sometime between 2006 when the ATC moved to a new tower and it started being used as offices and 2013 when it was demolished). The meeting paused while Concorde took off, partly to watch but also because it was so loud we couldn't have heard what anyone was saying. That was just the engine noise.
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I can shut off a lot of my hearing by removing my hearing aids. If offered the chance to have my hearing fully restored without the need for hearing aids, I'm not certain that I'd take it.
You'd be more then welcome .... so long as you don't mind sharing with 200,000 honeybees
We see more horses then cars here .... there's a horse racing breeder in the area.
And we do get the occasional sound of bagpipes when there's is a wedding at the church on the hill.
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Apart from that we can’t even see another house.
Not much traffic goes up the lane, my previous cat used to sleep in the middle of the lane.
I think myself very fortunate to have this, if it wasn’t for my dad I wouldn’t, all the boundaries are ours, no arguing about who does what with the hedges. Just a corner of a field. Beautiful.
For me, I think it is the accumulation of noise from every direction that gets to me and the feeling of having 'no escape'. Some types of noise never stops. Extractor fans that run continuously can be awful and worsen over time, as the machinery wears out, for instance.
I do find the distant hum of traffic quite comforting too - but it needs to be steady, with no junctions or traffic lights disrupting the pattern.
With the wind in the right direction, we can hear traffic on the concreted surfaces of the A30. One summer, we were kept awake by very noisy music, which I assumed was from a party somewhere in the village. Turned out that it was sound carried from the Sidmouth Folk Festival, over ten miles away. Just a fluke of the wind direction that night.
We also hear the late night Mail plane taking off from Exeter airport, but only if we are still awake, I’m not aware of it otherwise.