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• I don't know what it is but a few weeks ago, after much drilling and hammering my upstairs neighbours did something that makes a very loud transformer hum above my lounge. I don't hear it all the time, but then mostly it's covered up by the noise they make. It's quite annoying when I do hear it, but fortunately you can't hear it from anywhere else in the house.
• They also have one that I can hear best from one side of my bedroom - and that would be the side that I sleep on. I think that might be a fan heater either in their bedroom or bathroom, though. They tend to turn it on half an hour before my alarm goes off, which is really annoying - and it's so loud that not even ear plugs block it out.
• I don't know if it's the same thing but there's also an annoying transformer hum that's not steady and often goes on all night. That at least is blocked out by ear plugs, so every night this week I've worn them to sleep. Except last night when I only got woken up at 8am by one of them getting up to go to the toilet, but since I got back to sleep again, I didn't mind too much.
• Amazingly this morning they were quiet till 11.30 when they went through every TV channel at top volume, then put their music on loud. So I hoovered - and I have a Dyson which is the loudest hoover known to man. I'm still waiting for them to shut up and bugger off out so I can get some peace and quiet, though.
• I think March is going to be a tad busy, what with Eastercon and World Rotaract Week, I also signed up for another two ficathons. But I just couldn't not. I am constantly surprised that there's another two weeks left in February though. I think the weather makes me think it's spring. The flowers think it too, though, I've seen a few daffodils this week.