I've always suffered with periodic deafness,particularly at schooI and beyond.In the early 70s I was labouring briefly on building-sites. One day I got sent to a job nr Wycombe.The foreman stood on a box shouting orders and when he got to me said "and YOU....throw all that wood in the Biffa!. I'd never heard of a Biffa (skip as I found out later) and I thought he said river (there was a stream running through the site) and by the time he returned shouting "WHAT THE F##K are you doing?" I'd built quite a nice dam!......
When I was at junior School,crossing the road,where we lived at least,was fairly simple and fairly safe as you could here a Car or Bus or Lorry coming along the road long before it ever got to you. That's how it has become now to some extent with the road where we are suddenly going from having thousands of vehicles pass by daily to falling eerily quiet such that,even though Cars are more silent than they used to be,you can now hear them approaching way before you see them. In this new found silence we can hear Bird-Song that used to be drowned out by the traffic noise,hear the Frogs in the Pond croak and splash,hear children playing in a garden several Houses away,hear a Lawn-Mower somewhere and Alright Now by Free playing on someone's Radio who knows where. Our local Town is empty of people,almost all shops and businesses are shut and every day seems like a Sunday. Most of us now have more time on our hands than ever before and most people aren't making any money at t...
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