to ask what can you hear in the next 30 seconds?

[tararabumdeay]

My DH has lost his hearing. It's frustrating for both of us but communication is down to necessity now.

So the telly is too loud; instructions are mouthed and gestured; the loss of depth of conversation is like speaking spanglish.

I went outside for a minute. I could hear the distant arterial road; a helicopter; some drips from the saturated trees and our telly. Maybe I need to turn the telly off.

When the babies were little all I could hear was their breaths in the days they lived in.

What can you hear outside in 30 seconds from now?

tbc.

Outside - howling gale and some shutters banging. Normally some crickets but they're probably hiding tonight.

Inside: DH snoring and the dishwasher is stuck, will have to get out of bed and advance it!

Currently relaxing on the sofa while I gather the energy to get in to bed. Can hear the whirring of what I assume is some sort of refrigeration unit in the shop below my flat. Tummy is having a good gurgle. A motorbike just went down the highstreet and got a 'wayhey' from someone on their way home from the pub. The creaking as my upstairs neighbour rolls over in bed or moves around on the sofa (not sure what it is but it sounds like it's full of old springs).

I could hear dh gulping water from a bottle twenty seconds ago which I bloody loathe. Now Sade singing Smooth Operator on Magic which is rather lovely. Outside my house is silent until the dawn chorus at around 3.50am, also lovely.

Neither now or summit. Good and best wishes for you and yours. Babies have a way of teaching their parents well.

My eldest is poorly so in bed with us tonight and I can hear his breathing - how he's sleeping through this snoring I don't know.

Youngest is in the next to me and I can hear her breathing, grunting and farting.

I wish it was raining. I love the sound of rain on the windows.

Next door's had a twenty-something son move back in last weekend, and he's spending all his time indoors watching telly or playing video game with the volume up loud enough to be annoying. Sigh. I'll have a word with his dad tomorrow. Well, today, given it's 1am (and he's playing some racing game by the sound of it).

Tinnitus is a bitch alright. I've had it continously for nearly 30 years now. Very loud high pitched ringing but sounds different in both ears and louder in my left ear. Have been wearing hearing aids for the last 10 years due to moderate hearing loss especially at the frequencies of speech! Weirdly even though it's louder in myour left ear I'm equally deaf in both. I can hear the dishwasher running at the moment as it's a lower pitched sound but nothing else apart from the tinnitus

My old dog snoring, my OH breathing, his cpap machine, my tinnitus.....

Just when I thought I'd got off to sleep ( and it takes me ages) dh barging through the bedroom door, the en suite light pull banging against the door and now his water bottle he brings to bed rattling away with ice in it.
He drives me mad. Now it will take me ages to get back to sleep. Being on Mumsnet isn't going to help mind you.

It’s unusually quiet here tonight. I’m tucked up in bed and so is everyone else. I can just hear my warm breath hitting the sheets, some light electricity static from the tv on standby, a dishwasher in the distance, and my fingertips padding lightly on my phone. No animals or wind tonight.

We had new double glazing fitted a few years ago and I can’t hear anything outside at the moment. The windows are all closed due to the weather.

I work nights so to be able to sleep in the day I have to have the window closed and 2x blackout blinds down. In the summer I use a fan to drown out daytime noise and to sleep at a comfortable temperature. We live on a council estate with a real mix of people in a small city and it is surprisingly quiet at night.

OK. My farts. To be honest, it's not the noise but the smell you notice but thank god I've got a load warning system upon gas evacuation. The dog stirs, and sometimes moves away from me, when he hears it.

Time passes. Listen. Time passes."

I've just come in from outside and could hear frogs, a huge chorus of crickets chirping (a newish sound to me and one I could listen to all day), the fucking asshole owls hooting at each other, the chickens quietly bocking goodnight to each other and from inside dh reading ds a goodnight story.

I'm sat outside a hotel in Belfast. I can hear a bar playing Oasis and some cars. I feel very at home.

I can't hear anything at all!

Crickets, and a light breeze

I can't hear a single thing. I'm on the sofa snuggled up in my duvet - I can't even hear DH's snoring upstairs. There is no traffic or trains here. The dead of night is my favourite time. No noise = bliss.

I can not bear silence. Off to bed now and the first thing I'll do is put R4 on so low that I can't comprehend but could tune in if needs be.
Otherwise the sound of my own wheels would drive me crazy.

DS(2) whinging in the other room. Not a full blown cry yet, if it becomes so I'll go in but hoping he just goes back to sleep like he does most nights. Other than that can hear some drunk prats pissing about outside.

The washing machine whirring, the big clock ticking and my dog settling down.

I’m lying awake in bed. I can hear DH breathing (fast asleep), the rain and the sea.

We used to live in London and could hear the a40 all the time. Oddly the sound of the sea doesn’t sound that dissimilar to traffic noise!

I can next the heater, toilet flushing and my baby.

Frogs outside (weird, tropical ones). Inside - fan, TV, aircon.

My DH tapping away on his computer , talking on a train enthusiast's forum. Someone using an electrical tool in the neighboring apartment. The lady upstairs pushing a carpet sweeper around.

Does your DH not have a hearing aid ? Mine does, it makes a huge difference.