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What sounds do you commonly hear coming from outside your home?

170 replies

WomenHour · 05/09/2020 15:20

I would say it's mainly people using power tools and birds twerping

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Seeleyboo · 05/09/2020 15:20

Neighbour's dogs.

RightOnTheEdge · 05/09/2020 15:22

Car doors banging and my next door neighbour's loud screechy voice.

ilovebagpuss · 05/09/2020 15:23

Silence, power tools , the odd bark

Originalyellowbelly · 05/09/2020 15:24

Pigeons, tractors, jets, kids at school playtimes, lawn mowers and occasional accordion playing.

PhylisPrice · 05/09/2020 15:25

The man across the road banging in his garage as he's rebuilding a mini, pain in the arse at times but he is a lovely bloke so he's excused!

copernicium · 05/09/2020 15:27

Constant barking, motorbikes with stupid exhausts, the neighbour who sits in their car playing music for hours each day, power tools.

MazDazzle · 05/09/2020 15:27

Birds & traffic.

CallmeAngelina · 05/09/2020 15:28

Since lockdown began, neighbours' building works (3 in fairly close proximity). Angry
Ordinarily, nothing much. Birdsong, a very distant hum of traffic if the wind is in that direction. Ditto, the occasional train. Lawn-mowers.

impeccabledave · 05/09/2020 15:28

Cars beeping a lot due to awkward junctions on my road, people talking loudly to each other in many different languages, sirens, planes and helicopters overhead.

I like the hustle and bustle!

JorisBonson · 05/09/2020 15:28

Next doors kids screaming. All. Day. Long.

WTF99 · 05/09/2020 15:29

The neighbour's hot tub and wind chimes

MrsIronfoundersson · 05/09/2020 15:29

Distant motorway, birds tweeting, a woodpigeon at the moment, DH pottering in the shed.

Lweji · 05/09/2020 15:30

Cars, mostly.
Sometimes people.
At the back often birds, sometimes a cricket.
The lift.
And upstairs and downstairs neighbours.

Daftasabroom · 05/09/2020 15:31

Birds, trees, the sea

CurtainsforRonnie · 05/09/2020 15:32

My neighbour whistling all day.

All fucking day.

From 06.30-20.00.

I am wfh, so it seems like there is little escape.

I can hear it through the walls as well, which is even more of a fucker.

I HATE it.

bellinique · 05/09/2020 15:32

Alarms. Burglar alarms, car alarms, constant bloody alarms.

Pipandmum · 05/09/2020 15:33

I live on a busy street so traffic from the front and birds and my neighbour's power tools from the back. During the summer general kids playing noise, though there's one boy with a particularly high grating voice, and I hear him above all others.

Tallpaulwho · 05/09/2020 15:44

Sceeeeeaming! I mean its just kids playing type screaming, but its the high pitched screaching that young girls do, and its been a very long summer thanks to lockdown. Been pretty much non-stop since April until about 8/9pm most nights. Its not a bad noise in small doses as kids playing out is a good thing, but now I'm looking forward to the dark nights and cold days for some peace and quiet.

FlatScreenTV01 · 05/09/2020 15:48

Cars

DoesThisMakeSence · 05/09/2020 15:50

Police sirens, birds and the ice cream van.

BackforGood · 05/09/2020 15:57

I'm sitting in the conservatory now. I've heard.....
some children laughing and playing 2 or 3 doors down
some sort of a power tool (strimmer maybe?)
someone else mowing their lawn
trains passing
birds singing
a dog yapping

When I'm at the front of the house I'd hear traffic, including sirens quite often and also people walking past somtime who have no idea how to control the volume of their voice.

Quite often we get helicoptors but not heard one today

Quackersandcheese3 · 05/09/2020 15:58

Dogs, people, birds, cars.

Tempusfudgeit · 05/09/2020 15:58

Seagulls and police sirens. We're not near the sea and not in a high crime area. Work that one out!

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 05/09/2020 15:59

Gunfire, birds, neighbours dog, and distant traffic. And soldiers marching with accompanying shouting.

mmgirish · 05/09/2020 16:00

Birds, people splashing in the pool and the call to prayer.

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