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Post by Moose on Jun 18, 2013 17:21:56 GMT
Col claims that he can hear the sea constantly from my house. This surprises me as I certainly cannot but then I have lived within stone throw of the sea for a good deal of my life - first in St Bees when I was five, then later in Whitehaven then even when I lived down South I lived very near to the beach in both Whistable and Hastings. I've certainly never been able to hear the sea tho and I can only smell it down on the harbour. What about others who have visited chez Moose, coudl you hear it?
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Post by charliebrown on Jun 18, 2013 17:48:30 GMT
Hmm...I don't think I heard the sea while I was around your place. But it's really so close to where you live. And the harbor is lovely, you should have some walks down there when the weather is nice and you feel that you are up to it.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 18, 2013 18:12:20 GMT
I don't remember hearing it ... should have asked us while we were there!
*has mislaid Time Turner*
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Post by Moose on Jun 18, 2013 18:23:04 GMT
Genie - I do like the harbour and go there sometimes. You should have seen it when I was growing up - it was a dump with a bad reputation for all kinds of Not Good doings. But then the government gave the local area some money and it was all kitted out nicely .. everything you see down there, the benches, paving stones, wavy lights, all the restaurants and stuff .. it's all pretty new (well prolly a decade or more old now but still). It's nice
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Post by charliebrown on Jun 18, 2013 18:35:43 GMT
Yes, it's really nice. The gang had a nice walk over there and it was memorable
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 18, 2013 18:44:43 GMT
I only meant it could be heard distantly, when outside. I think it's what you are used to as I hardly notice the sound of the motorway only a few hundred meters from my house and that is much louder. It is still much quieter than when I lived in a flat, much nearer to the town centre and about a hundred meters from one of the busiest roads (day and night). Tracy used to cope with the constant traffic noise by pretending it was the sound of the sea, as she always wanted to move to the coast anyway. Even indoors I can now hear the motorway. Before I got the double-glazing it was very noticeable, although for the first few days it sounded totally quiet after having lived in a significantly noisier environment.
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Post by Moose on Jun 18, 2013 20:22:35 GMT
I used to live a few metres - literally - from the M23. You could hear it most of the time despite there being a big fence to screen it from view.
I am so glad that we did not have cats then, tho remarkably some of our neighbours did.
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Post by bill on Jun 18, 2013 21:43:17 GMT
Well obviously I don't know about your house but if there is a westerly wind you certainly hear it it from ours.
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Post by tangent on Jun 19, 2013 0:10:36 GMT
I didn't hear the sea even when we were walking along St Bees' beach.
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Post by Mari on Jun 19, 2013 6:31:56 GMT
I never noticed it. I grew up next to a traintracks with a regular scheduling of trains. I never notice them.
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Post by tangent on Jun 19, 2013 7:00:23 GMT
We lived underneath the flight path from Manchester to London. Every morning, apparently, a plane flew over at 7:30am but only our visitors could hear it.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 19, 2013 7:25:42 GMT
Again, I think it's the difference between being able to hear something and noticing it.
When I used to visit Sheffield, Tracy's mum's house is directly opposite the ambulance depot and they would be coming out of there at regular intervals with their sirens going. After a few days, you'd just stop paying any attention to it, even on return visits.
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Post by charliebrown on Jun 19, 2013 10:43:59 GMT
Right in front of our house is the main fast road that leads to most major cities in southern Poland (and further down south, to Slovakia). The traffic could get rather heavy but we get used to it. It means certain noise but at the same time we do have good connection to Krakow and other cities which is a very good thing
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Jun 22, 2013 9:30:35 GMT
I could definitely hear it. Actually I was more "aware" of it. I think it was the gulls and the fact that it's constantly somewhere on the horizon. My house is a five minutes walk from the M1 and close to the airport and near a busy railway line, I don't notice any of that, but I was really aware of the sea, it was nice but kind of spooky. I felt a bit like Legolas must have felt in LOTR when he encountered gulls . Oh yeah, and of course there is salt in the air where you live and not a mixture of diesel and aviation fuel
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Post by Miisa on Jun 22, 2013 9:44:27 GMT
It's all down to what you get used to. I have a fan that keeps turning on and off all the time outside my bedroom window, I have no problem sleeping through that. Also the trains that go by occasionally, got used to that pretty quick. But the sounds coming from the pub/club across the streets on weekends when it is open till the wee hours is harder to adjust to.
And, as mentioned in another thread, the never-ending daylight disturbs my ability to sleep, and I seem unable to adjust as it is this extreme only for a couple of months a year. I really shouldn't complain though, as six months from now I will only see daylight on the weekends.
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