Day-to-day noises not heard so much anymore.

**jimmyscoular** · 12-12-23, 00:16

Originally Posted by WJ99mobile

Crackle of an open fire

Good one.

**ToTaL ITK** · 12-12-23, 00:17

war sirens

**jimmyscoular** · 12-12-23, 00:17

Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

Whistling kettles.

Really? Why? I still use one of those.

**jimmyscoular** · 12-12-23, 00:19

The ka-chunk of a bus conductor's ticket dispenser.

**jimmyscoular** · 12-12-23, 00:22

My mother, of an evening, in her armchair with her knitting needles and watching the telly:

"Oh, no. Not Arthur bloody Askey!"

**Barmy** · 12-12-23, 07:23

My piss streaming into the bowl

**The Bloop** · 12-12-23, 08:02

Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

Whistling kettles.

Originally Posted by jimmyscoular

Really? Why? I still use one of those.

Me too. Saves space on the worktop.

**KingOfSiamIAm** · 12-12-23, 09:41

Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland

The wobbly music sound of your cassette being chewed up by your tape recorder.

You can buy a guitar effects pedal for that.

On a football theme, and one for the youngsters on here:
Over there,
And over there,
And do they smell,
Like…

**Enoch Mort** · 12-12-23, 11:06

Originally Posted by KingOfSiamIAm

As you are B Oddie... loads of Sparrows twittering away in bushes/hedgrows.

Plenty of sparrows chirping away in hedgerows here in leafy North Cardiff

**xsnaggle** · 13-12-23, 13:09

Originally Posted by Nobody's Rep

Used to love the smell of fresh bread being cooked in the bakers on the way to Severn road school back in the 70s and since when did Severn road fall in pontcanna and not canton

The bakery was under the arch in Wyndham Crescent. Beautiful smell.

**North Cardiff Blue** · 13-12-23, 13:15

Drakeford speaking in public

https://x.com/therustler83/status/17...LhmySD2aRt-GNg

**William Treseder** · 13-12-23, 14:07

Originally Posted by splott parker

‘Cockles, Prawns, any Cockles gents’…… a once a night visit by the Cockle Man or Woman with their big wicker basket in Cardiff pubs.

Quickly followed by some punter asking the guy if he had any muscles. Then if he said yes, asking him why he was only carrying 1 basket 😂

**William Treseder** · 13-12-23, 14:08

The sound of a pub till ringing after Sludge has bought a round !

**Taunton Blue Genie** · 13-12-23, 14:12

The sound of people in the streets hitting pots and pans with wooden spoons in support of the NHS

**bobh** · 13-12-23, 14:39

Originally Posted by TWGL1

The sound of “crab sticks “ in city centre pubs

Haven't seen a shellfish seller in pubs since I left London in 1987!
Crabsticks, cockles, mussels, prawns whelks... and jellied eels
Did jellied eels get sold around here?

**Taunton Blue Genie** · 13-12-23, 15:04

Originally Posted by bobh

Haven't seen a shellfish seller in pubs since I left London in 1987!
Crabsticks, cockles, mussels, prawns whelks... and jellied eels
Did jellied eels get sold around here?

I used to work with a marine biologist (a pony-tailed doctor and lead guitarist in a part-time rock band) whose policy was to never eat bivalvia. Just sayin'.....

**jon1959** · 13-12-23, 15:20

Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

I used to work with a marine biologist (a pony-tailed doctor and lead guitarist in a part-time rock band) whose policy was to never eat bivalvia. Just sayin'.....

Did they affect his guitar playing? Just askin.....

**Eric the Half a Bee** · 13-12-23, 16:31

Originally Posted by William Treseder

The sound of a pub till ringing after Sludge has bought a round !

You mean there were sounds like this years ago?

**Taunton Blue Genie** · 13-12-23, 18:09

Originally Posted by jon1959

Did they affect his guitar playing? Just askin.....

Let's just say that he never played for Blue Öyster Cult

**BlueArmy 86** · 15-12-23, 11:08

All male football broadcasts

**Nobody's Rep** · 15-12-23, 11:23

Originally Posted by xsnaggle

The bakery was under the arch in Wyndham Crescent. Beautiful smell.

Great shout and still one of my strongest childhood memories 👍

**sneggyblubird** · 15-12-23, 11:43

Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue

Drakeford speaking in public

https://x.com/therustler83/status/17...LhmySD2aRt-GNg

A Tory that regards truth and honesty as a prerequisite for politics.

**BLUETIT** · 15-12-23, 12:00

Lavatory chains

**TWGL1** · 15-12-23, 16:35

The sound of an open fire being “drawn”

**jon1959** · 15-12-23, 16:56

Cars backfiring

Ice cream vans' jingles on housing estates

Police batons banging on riot shields (still happens but not like the 70s and 80s)

Ghetto blasters

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