Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

What can you hear right now?

159 replies

ItsPickleRick · 30/05/2026 16:59

I made one of these threads a few months ago and really enjoyed reading everyone’s posts so I thought I’d do another.

I’ll go first.

The faint hum of traffic on the nearby road.
Birds tweeting.
The fish tank pump.
One of my neighbours chatting to the delivery driver bringing her shopping.
Myself, eating peanut M&Ms 😳

OP posts:
Sunnydaysarehereagain2026 · 30/05/2026 23:21

3 baby owls!! They soundile giant mice squeaking!

Secretseverywhere · 30/05/2026 23:27

I’m on last dog walk so can hear the gentle flow of the river ( it’s low as it’s been hot) my footsteps on gravel. The occasional lamb bleating for its mother.

agggtm · 31/05/2026 07:08

My husband snoring, bil weeing, dn babbling in her cot

andnowwhatdowedo · 31/05/2026 07:10

Pigeon cooing
Cat snoring
TiInnitus

Arriettyborrower · 31/05/2026 07:13

Birds tweeting, insect buzzing, it’s lovely and peaceful this morning, I want it to stay like this!

TinyMouseTheatre · 31/05/2026 07:29

Distant hum of traffic.
DH doing Duolingo
The DDog snoring.
Some very loud birds.

Mydogisagentleman · 31/05/2026 07:47

Horses. Horses. Horses.
Today is Horses day (probably got a different name) at the church in our town in Spain.
A figure of Mary is taken by horse to a different church and is escorted by people on foot and lots of Horses and wagons.
It confuses the life out of my dense fog.

holjam · 31/05/2026 07:48

Bird song

Hibernationistheplan · 31/05/2026 08:10

Very loud seagull, my cat purring, and the odd car passing.

EweCee · 31/05/2026 08:12

Beautiful loud bird song
My DH gently snoring next to me
Very distant sound of airplane in flight
Wind through the trees

k92 · 31/05/2026 08:40

My washer
Birds
My dog gently snoring

OneWildNightWithJBJ · 31/05/2026 08:42

Birds
Distant traffic
Dog's paws padding on the kitchen floor
Guinea pigs moving around

Nourishinghandcream · 06/07/2026 10:35

Birds tweeting.

Normally there is SOMETHING in the background but it has been almost entirely silent all morning.🙂

Wibble128 · 06/07/2026 10:38

My tinnitus

notatinydancer · 06/07/2026 10:41

Birds
Distant traffic

Natsku · 06/07/2026 10:44

Big loud CNC machines working, something beeping (maybe forklift reversing), plastic crinkling and the radio.

ifonly4 · 06/07/2026 10:50

Next door's builder drilling into rafters.

thegrandoleduchess · 06/07/2026 10:51

Seagulls - not surprising as I live by the sea !

Loopylalalou · 06/07/2026 10:53

A tractor in the next door field topping nettles. My washing machine. Birds. An aircraft passing over.

NeedWineNow · 06/07/2026 10:53

The washing machine on a spin cycle.

didalittlenamechange · 06/07/2026 11:06

Joni Mitchell 'Come in from the cold', a creaky floorboard, and the kettle.

I've been painting this morning so it's my usual early-70s playlist on loud in my studio. Just taking a break for a cuppa and a nosy through MN.

clearlyy · 06/07/2026 11:08

I’m in the office and the lady I work with has heart 80s on all day every day. I love 80s music but it’s the same playlist day in, day out. Infuriating.

Washingforweeks · 06/07/2026 11:21

Absolutel silence apart from occasional hammering as next door are having a new kitchen x

DoAWheelie · 06/07/2026 11:26

Nothing, I'm deaf.

I have some hearing, enough to be able to talk/hold conversations with the aid of lip-reading. But I don't hear any "background" sounds at all. Unless someone is talking or a TV/radio is on, then every room I'm in is silent.

Fledglingsflying · 06/07/2026 11:39

The road, a neighbour’s music (quite pleasant background noise - the music not road).

Swipe left for the next trending thread