My washing machine is on at the moment. Isn’t it amazing how the sound a washing machine makes hasn’t changed in forty odd years? I’m sat here listening to it as it goes round and it if I close my eyes, I’m ten years old, sitting in the kitchen eating my tomatoes on toast, as my mum does the housework! I find it a comforting sound. A reminder that I once had a care free life and a wonderfully gentle upbringing. It’s like I lived a different life on another earth, a bit like this one, only not all twisted and messed up.
Other happy sounds I like are lawn mowers. The best ones are the manual type, but they are very rare now. What about the sound of a cricket ball on the bat? The evening chorus of birds (much more tuneful than the dawn chorus), a trickling stream, the distant rumble of an aeroplane on a cloudless sunny day, the buzzing of bees, and the gentle breeze whispering through trees?
Are there any sounds that send you on a journey into your past or to another world?
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