This makes a great poem
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.
During the day, odd car, tractor or lawnmower & birds, hundreds of birds...
At night, nothing, absolutely nothing. The occasional car passing, wind etc
Not outside but in bed I can hear the fan, my belly rumbling and my annoying 2.5 year old that won't go to sleep!!
We really don't appreciate the little things (that are huge things) enough do we...
Some inconsiderate prat screeching around in a car like he is at branshatch , other than that just the rumble of traffic from the near by M-way, its surprising quiet round here tonight
Im in bed. I can hear the cat licking his nethers in the landing. hmm myself breathing and my hands rubbing against the duvet as I type. The cat is the loudest.
Bus passing. Got BBC 4 on fairly loud, though.
Toilet refilling, DC breathing, my fingers talppng this
Well, I’m lying in the induction ward at the hospital.
The lady opposite is clearly in labour and panting heavily. The woman next to me is on a very loud phone conversation!
I’m lying here with no signs of labour whatsoever
I’m in bed, DH is snoring.... outside a train just went by.
bbc Radio 4 tribute to grefell tower.
computer fan,
keyboard clicking,
radio four not quite tuned in so fuzzy ness.
clock ticking
The M4, the bathroom fan, and DH knocking about in the kitchen downstairs.
In bed and I can hear a loud roaring along with a high pitched whistle.
Tinnitus is a bitch.
Sod all. But I've also lost a lot of hearing and I've taken my hearing aids out.
Tinnitus, DH loudly complaining about how low the pound is and a fan.
I'm not venturing outside but inside I can hear a clock ticking, slow, steady breathing of two elderly dogs (reassuring to hear trust me) gentle creaking of the house.
I’m in bed. I can hear the waves hitting the old jetty outside. There are very faint sirens from the main road.
The rain on the trees, a bit of wind just to jazz it up a bit.
A car in the distance .
The him of traffic on the ring road a mile or so away.
A slow dripping from the leaking guttering above the window.
Tinnitus in my left ear that sounds high pitched Morse code.
Oh and it sounds like something has just disturbed the chickens two doors down.
My dh found a wounded watchdog impression, my baby shuffling an 2 dogs snoring less loudly than dh. I live in a zoo!
Snuffling obvs 🙄
Sirens (I live next to a police station) and traffic. Oh and some rubbish my husband is watching 😂
When it was all quiet round here a blimin noisy bug decided to wake up and crash about in the lampshade so that's buzz and splat to add to the perfect peace. It sounded like a splat but it may just be stunned.
My breathing, the clock on the landing, the faint whirr of our dodgy central heating/hot water system, chink of a wine bottle on wine glass (refilling)! Cat snoring very very faintly.
Duff McKagan’s new song Tenderness on YouTube on the TV (Friday night is my music night). DP is in bed but he’s playing jazz (too loudly) on his phone so I can hear that in the background.
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 hmm 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).
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 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.
The dawn chorus
DH snoring
The dawn chorus
Blooming generator type sound I seem to hear every night God knows where it's coming from
Clock ticking
I can hear only my own breathing and the odd movement of the duvet while I type. Dawn chorus soon as the curtains are open and I just saw a couple of birds fly past the window. Bliss smile
My breathing. DP breathing.
A blackbird’s song. A great tit’s song. A crow in the distance. A bird’s wings flapping.
Chatter of people in nearby cafes, footsteps of people walking past, car traffic from about a block away, magpies chattering and the slow burn of my cigarette when I take a drag.. funny how you take hearing for granted sometimes
DH snoring, toddler snuffle-snoring, ddog snoring, the odd moo, random bird chirp
I'm at work, its finally quiet and I can hear the dawn chorus. Its beautiful.
I am very aware of sound but all I can hear right now is the dawn chorus. About to go feed my horses when it gets a little bit lighter and I love cycling down there with nothing to hear but the swish of bike wheels, birds singing and my girls calling as they see me coming. Perfect start to the day.
Just my alarm clock: tick . . tick . . tick, and my tummy gurgling occasionally from my cup of tea. Not even a bird now.
Chickenpoxy child next to me finally sleep breathing
Sparrows in the hedge
Magpie
Distant traffic
Horny woodpigeons
My slightly squeaky nose breathing
Thumbs tapping on phone screen
Clicking of the timer plug on the fan
Cock as in cockerel
Very faint traffic
Birdsong
Train de de de de faintly
The dawn chorus, though it is not much of one today. A bus went by at the end of the street.
10 month old DD babbling, her stomping around the living room and her annoying nursery rhymes.
Oh and DH coughing because he's 'poorly'
The last of the dawn chorus and my little girl and hubby breathing smile
Distant traffic
Birds
And the church bell just struck 6 which I love
My cat Pepper is purring as she curls up next to me as I watch The Vicar Of Dibley.