After a quiet Easter weekend, this morning I was awakened
early by a lot of banging outside. I still felt tired though, and as I
knew the noise had legitimate cause (roof work on the building), I
stayed in bed, turning the radio on. Somehow I must have fallen back
to sleep (slumber) again, because next time I woke up (which I wouldn't have done if I'd stayed awake!), it was from a rather chaotic dream of being in a
war zone... No need for advanced interpretation of why - with the war in Ukraine constantly on the news, the last book I read being about WWII, and now this going on outside my windows:
They've spent today stripping the roof of the old tiles, throwing those in a 'small' (well...) metal container up on the roof, which was then maneuvered down from there by a huge crane outside my windows, and (noisily) emptied into HUGE metal containers on the ground... They filled at least two such huge containers today.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the building, they were putting up some more scaffolding (involving other banging and drilling noises).
It's been a lovely spring day outside, but what with that crane swinging heavy containers in the air outside our entrance most of the day, I ended up not going out until they had stopped... (No doubt they would have "let me out" safely -
but since I had no special plans anyway, I just found it better to
wait!)
I got some vacuuming done - trying to cancel out one kind of noise with another. I also cleaned my winter boots (I have several pairs, high and low and with different kinds of soles) and took most of those down to the basement storage room. (Hoping we won't have more snow now - even if one never really knows!) Then I ended up watching TV most of the afternoon until 4 p.m. And then I went out for my walk...
For once, I think I'm quite happy with 'daylight saving
time' this spring after all. ;)
i am thinking your sub concious mind was transferring all that noise to the sound of war. hopefully they will finish removing those heavy tiles and the noise will be less.
ReplyDeleteSandra - or at least it will be different! ;) Today at least so far there is no big crane outside...
DeleteGoodness, seems like you will be an Early Bird for at least the next several days.
ReplyDeleteGinny, one might think so, except I've already proved myself able to fall back to at least half-sleep anyway... ;)
DeleteNot a nice way to be woken up, but at least it's not really the noise of war in your part of the world.
ReplyDeleteLike you, I appreciate the longer daylight hours. Usually, I can wrap up work between 4:00 and 5:00 pm, and with sunset being at around 8:20 pm here, that gives me plenty of time for nice long walks.
Meike - and by now the sun is up when they start work in the morning too. (It would have "felt" earlier in winter.) As I know it's a temporary thing, I'm not really complaining - just trying to find the best ways to deal with it... ;)
DeleteBuilders do like to make a lot of noise don't they! At least the noise and dust won't last forever and you'll have a nice new roof.
ReplyDeleteSomeone is building a new house further along the road from me, and although it's a distance away, I can still hear almost every bang and clatter! The worst was when there was a procession of cement lorries outside our houses, waiting their turn to pour concrete for the foundations and walls. Their constant beep-beep was most annoying and it was quite a time before any of us could get out of our gates.
CG, in their defense, I don't really think they're making more noise than they have to. It's just a bit unpredictable day by day.
DeleteI would've been up checking out the commotion too but it's good they are making the roof better for people to live in.
ReplyDeleteAmy, yes, it's of course a good thing that they're taking good care of the buildings!
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