Cock a doodle bollocks!

[jefmcg]

Do you know what time it is by flight arrival?

Despite the curfew ending at 6, planes usually start over head (we are approach only) at 4.30am.

 

[classic33]

Despite the curfew ending at 6, planes usually start over head (we are approach only) at 4.30am.

We have one over at 02:20 to Leeds-Bradford, West to East.

 

[Brandane]

You never get used to constant noise, apparently, like roads or machines.

Anyone who has ever lived on a ship might disagree. On merchant cargo ships the accommodation is in close proximity to the engine room, and you get used to the constant hum of the engines, generators, pumps, and other machinery. I found it easier getting used to the background noise on board ship than I did the silence when you came home after 6 months. Lying in bed at night at home with no noise other than the ringing in your ears was very disconcerting for the first week or so.

 

[User32269]

FYI, cockerels keep their, ahem, doodles up where you'd expect the lungs to be.

So did I until I changed saddle angle

 

[tyred]

I think Donkeys take the prize for most annoying noise. Or pigs.

 

[perplexed]

It's not especially pleasant but beats the other Peruvian speciality of organ soup.

Bloody hell, how long does it take to boil down a Korg or a Hammond?

 

[User482]

Bloody hell, how long does it take to boil down a Korg or a Hammond?

Dunno, but it gave me the wurlitzers.

 

[pawl]

It's the bloody magpies that annoy me. Terrible screeching racket at all hours.

My catapults come in handy and my aim is getting better, which keeps them at bay. Still no broken windows or blinded noisy kids - yet.

I remember back in the day before the clean air ac,t the sparrows waking me up coughing.

 

[Mark1978]

I think Donkeys take the prize for most annoying noise. Or pigs.

We have guinea fowl living opposite us. Id rather a donkey or pig than those. She also has peacocks but they tend to stay away from our place.

 

[Piemaster]

Anyone who has ever lived on a ship might disagree. On merchant cargo ships the accommodation is in close proximity to the engine room, and you get used to the constant hum of the engines, generators, pumps, and other machinery. I found it easier getting used to the background noise on board ship than I did the silence when you came home after 6 months. Lying in bed at night at home with no noise other than the ringing in your ears was very disconcerting for the first week or so.

They are getting quieter fortunately. The MLC (Maritime Labour Convention) requires regular noise testing of working and living areas. There is a lot more effort put into keeping noise levels down during the design stages.
Worst experience for noise in last few months was in the hotel on the way to the ship in Brazil. Choice was either be hot and sticky in 30+ degrees, or have the air conditioning unit on which was like trying to sleep in the room with a tractor running.
I'm with you on the getting used to to it being quiet after getting home. Being an engineer, it being quiet usually means something has stopped!

 

[Fnaar]

Miss Goodbody doesn't mind a large cock waking her up in the mornings.

 

[Piemaster]

More like pheasant. Very tasty

I caught a clip of a kids TV programme a while back - an outdoorsy adventure thing in Peru. The kids were all handed a meal - spit roasted guinea pig.
Majority were quite upset by prospect of eating a 'pet'. One of them ate some anyway saying that it had died to give her a meal so would be a waste of a life if she didn't eat it. Understatement to say I was impressed.

 

[Bazzer]

Currently have a flock of sheep in the field opposite, with the horses in there all year. Mrs B complained the other day of them waking up her in the night baaing. No cock a doodle doo though, just clucking from the free range hens in the fenced off part.
IME peacock was the worst "wildlife" noise. They had a couple at a farm near our first house. Well, when I say near, it was wasn't as if they were close neighbours, but that screeching didn't half travel.
The noise of a cow when it has had its calf taken from it travels too, but at least that is temporary. Peacocks are every flaming day, at any time of the day.

 

[classic33]

Never heard a crow scarer(vortex cannon) going off outside the bedroom window.

 

[Fnaar]

Currently have a flock of sheep in the field opposite, with the horses in there all year. Mrs B complained the other day of them waking up her in the night baaing. No cock a doodle doo though, just clucking from the free range hens in the fenced off part.
IME peacock was the worst "wildlife" noise. They had a couple at a farm near our first house. Well, when I say near, it was wasn't as if they were close neighbours, but that screeching didn't half travel.
The noise of a cow when it has had its calf taken from it travels too, but at least that is temporary. Peacocks are every flaming day, at any time of the time.

I can do a great impression of a peacock's call. I learned it as a kid, watching The Waltons.