It came fifteen years ago; to this day/ it has shown no intention of going away

[flemmings]

Came home expecting darkness and silence next door, and found instead lights on and door open, for the last time snerf. No Johnson cocktail this time, just freebies (metal garbage can, laundry bag, tea towels) as the cleanout goes down to the wire before closing tomorrow. But bro came to inspect my basement because-

-I woke this morning to an intermittent beep as of a fire alarm whose battery is dying. But none of my alarms were beeping. Sound was in the basement where next door has erected shelves and loaded them up. Assumed it was their fire alarm beeping, but couldn't find anything in the boxes, nor could s-i-l when she came to look. The sound seems to move around and seems to come from *between* the floors. Bro suggests options, either that Bell put something in last Saturday when they installed my broadband or that the electric fire alarm, silent these last 32 years, has shorted. Recourse I suppose is first to get an electrician in to give an opinion and hopefully to find a solution; or else to ignore it and hope, if it's a battery, that it will fall silent eventually.

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[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

How horribly annoying! I suppose it's at the gentler end of "mysterious noise in basement" tales, but it's still not actually adding to the joy of life. I hope it stops soon, and before expensive electricians are called in.

Tea-towels, though - that can add to the general joy. I like decent tea-towels and will leap at the chance to snaffle linen souvenir ones when I see them in op-shops. I'm easily persuaded to buy them from fundraisers, too - kindergartens and Anglican churches are well to the fore in the tea-towel game. (Or used to be. Oh, dishwashers! what have you done to the fundraising avenues of yore!)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I could live without the beep, yes. OTOH stress always makes me lose my appetite and pre-surgery I can stand to lose a few kilos. It will be awhile before I can get electricians in, in any case. Maybe I'll just stop hearing it.

There's a fashion here for terrycloth towels, god knows why. Linen ones are hard to find and expensive, but they're the only ones that get glasses clean.