He only seems to do it at night, but then maybe we are only lying awake listening to him at night; the 'blacksmith' banging away with something metal on something concrete.
With a sound like your spade hitting the edge of the concrete when you are chopping the grass to try and stop the lawn overtaking the patio...
BANG
....long pause....
BANG
....wait for it....
BANG
....
If the wind picks up the banging gets a bit steadier, and eventually is joined by an orchestral timpani of whip-cracking shredded canopies, deeply vibrating (whole) canopies pulled taught over metal frames, plastic chairs and plants pots scuttling around balconies and courtyards, and the deep rumble of gusts of winds piling up between tall concrete apartments,
Providing a piercing counter-point to all this activity the occasional shrill yowl of a cat, giving voice to its defiance of the elements, and, for some inexplicable reason, the occasional clatter of a stick of timber falling from a great height into a concrete courtyard.
BANG
.....
Good thing we don't have metal dustbins and dustbin lids.
Hari OM
ReplyDelete...at my father's house, I found, there was often a night time repetitive bang. I eventually tracked it down to the gate in the fence between his and the neighbour's garden, the latch of which had rusted and was therefore not holding the gate firm when the wind blew. It blows a lot up here. Some oil and a hinge adjustment fixed it. That left only the traffic, sirens, birds who insisted on singing at night... and the occasional screech of foxes.
Back at the Hutch, there is the occasional owl. Or the bang of the back door at the foot of the tenement stair that someone forgot to latch...
And tinnitus. I have not known silence for about five years now. External sounds are sometimes a relief. Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
F's with you on the tinnitis. We too share traffic noise. Curfew has put paid to that after about 2100 hours, but it won't be forever (unfortunately), it's the tiny cars with immense sound systems cruising by ar 3am that jolt us upright.
DeleteWhite noise is supposed to help the tinnits. Furrings and purrings.xxx Mr T
Gosh it’s a good thing I don’t live where you do.....I’d be scouring the neighbourhood looking a fixtures and fittings trying to place the offending ‘place’
ReplyDeleteAnd Tigger could you show this to F for me please. I thought maybe she’d bought one of Scottish spinner, knitter, designer Liz Lovick’s patterns....but then noticed the little differences. Slightly different cables, different fill in stitch, raglan sleeves with no saddle shoulders. Not the same at all is it😊
Hundreds of balconies with metal and concrete and canvas awnings and outdoor furniture and clotheslines and storage cupboards and outdoor fuse boxes (with doors and covers not necessarily latched).... F gets patterns from Garnstudio (Drops Design) and Ravelry - I often sit here (giving artistic direction) while she trawls through search results matching patterns with what we've got left in the big orange box. Xxx
DeleteAnd of course it helps if I give you the link
ReplyDeletehttps://northernlace.co.uk/product/pdf-pattern-for-the-lattice-cable-sweater-for-men-and-boys-by-elizabeth-lovick/
Actually we like that one better. We've added it to our scrapbook. xxx Mr T
DeleteThings sound a bit stormy around your place :)
ReplyDeleteThey can be, in the winter time.
DeleteI hope it’s at least in tune!
ReplyDeleteI would have to go out and find the source of all
That noise. It would drive me crazy 😜