People look at me as though I’m mad when I complain about the din of traffic that gets everywhere, even making it hard to hear birdsong on my patch… here is yet another public health reason to #BanCars -

How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmjdm2m4yjo

Near a major A-road and woods, my town feels sandwiched between nature's calm and roaring engines.
Wishing for some quiet birdwatching in my garden, but instead, I get the incessant buzz of young bikers and loud cars.
If only they knew how disruptive they are!

#Kent #Police? Not much help. Do bikers even realise not everyone's a fan of their noise?

#NotAFan #QuietPlease #NatureVsNoise #WhereIsThePeace

I spend a couple of hours a day commuting, and I spend a lot of that time listening to #OldTimeRadio. If you'd like to hear a scary story before bedtime, here's a classic from Wyllis Cooper's series "Quiet Please", featuring the inimitable Ernest Chappell as the narrator. The story is "The Thing on the Fourble Board". Just listen to it:

https://www.quietplease.org/episodes/the-thing-on-the-fourble-board-60.html

you can find more episodes here:

https://archive.org/details/Quiet_Please