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I'm a self-employed jewellery e-tailer. I ramble randomly about creativity, wildlife, peace, politics, herstory, history, myths, the Scottish landscape, stone circles, discoveries and *stuff*. I like to dance like no-one is watching, even when they are. M

Recent Posts Tagged With 'noise'

• Surround sound impact noise

  Posted on Thursday July 3rd, 2008 at 12:10 in impact noise, laminate flooring, noise, noisy neighbours

  There is a fantastic diagram that illustrates why impact noise from laminate flooring is so disturbing. Impact noise is NOT "just impact noise" as someone tried to tell me - it is noise that can manif...

• I think someone was shot!

  Posted on Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 at 06:54 in fright, laminate flooring, noise, racing heart, shitting myself

  Here I was sitting at my desk quietly working away and in a perfectly acceptable dwam when suddenly I was shunted out of myself by an extremely loud and sharp bang. It was so loud I felt it never mind...

• Ignorant Inconsiderate Incessant Impact

  Posted on Monday June 30th, 2008 at 04:17 in impact noise, laminate flooring, noise, noisy neighbours

  My life is dominated by someone else's noise. Unless I remove my eardrums and indeed the senses of my body that feel my walls and floor vibrating with this noise, then I am unable to detach from heari...

• I volunteer my ceiling and walls! Please!

  Posted on Friday June 13th, 2008 at 05:04 in noise

  BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Experts unveil 'cloak of silence'I hereby nominate my ceiling and walls to take part in this experiment. I have no qualms about the impact noise I experience from the lamin...

• Solve a Problem - Soundproof Laminate Flooring

  Posted on Saturday March 22nd, 2008 at 12:54 in laminate wood flooring, noise, noisy neighbours

  I'm getting lots of hits that appear to be from people also suffering sleep and life disruption brought on by laminate flooring. It's such a shame that the laminate flooring industry and/or people who...

• Ode To Thumpy

  Posted on Thursday February 21st, 2008 at 06:43 in laminate wood flooring, noise, noisy neighbours, poetry

  Thumpy is my neighbourShe lives above my headShe thumps aroundHer kitchenShe thumps aroundHer loungeShe thumps when I am showeringEvery footstep her floor sends downHer latest trick of thumpingThat re...

• Closing the Year

  Posted on Monday December 31st, 2007 at 04:20 in beasties, creativity, foxes, knitting, laminate wood flooring, noise, noisy neighbours, ponderings, soulcollage

  I haven't felt much like blogging recently, I am struggling with stress and depression due to the situation with the noisy people who live upstairs and their laminate flooring. I can't describe what i...

• Making a Noise About Noise

  Posted on Tuesday December 4th, 2007 at 05:35 in interactions, laminate wood flooring, noise, noisy neighbours, peace

  I wasn't going to write about this because, well, it might not be as big a deal to the rest of the world as it is to me. But then I read MisssyM's blog about Saying No and thought I'd tell my wee stor...