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RE: I-Spy....Sounds - Small chilli - 21-10-2024
H is for heron they make a funny little squawk when they fly away because they think you’re too close. If you get within 100m you’re doing very well.
Or it could be for the sound of car horn. You either hear the beep beep to get the sheep to get off the road or you the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP of a local to get a tourist out of the road because they’re being inconsiderate arses parked in middle of road taking photos
RE: I-Spy....Sounds - Veggie - 21-10-2024
H is for Horses' Hooves as they go clippety clop up the road, across the sand and around the fields. Love watching them running around the fields, kicking up their heels and enjoying themselves, the way all animals should.
H is also for the Hee Haw of donkeys, it always makes me laugh.
RE: I-Spy....Sounds - Small chilli - 22-10-2024
Ice. I do like the sound of ice cubes cracking as you pour a drink of your choice over them and the linking of them in the glass. I don’t actually like ice in my drink. Enjoy hearing it in others glasses.
RE: I-Spy....Sounds - Veggie - 22-10-2024
I is for Ice Cream Vans that play annoying tunes, over and over again. Luckily, they don't come up here but I hear them when I'm out and about.
When I was a kid, lots of food was delivered, bread, milk, soft drinks and the fruit & veg came on a horse drawn cart, but nothing was as exciting as Mr Dimascio's Ice Cream Van. At the first sound of his bell, all the front doors would open and kids would pour out, rushing to be first in the queue outside his little hatch. Two brothers from the family across the road would break the ends off their cones and stick them, with a dollop of icecream to Mr Dimascio's windscreen. Others would follow suit and, by the time all the kids had been served and Mr Dimascio could return to the driving seat, he'd find his windscreen totally spattered with icecream cones. Poor old Mr D. would have to leave his van to clean them off before he could drive away.
Another of the pranks played by these tearaway brother was to rock his van, while he was serving. Poor man, I don't know why he kept coming back as he couldn't have made much money.
RE: I-Spy....Sounds - Small chilli - 23-10-2024
Struggling a bit with J . So I’m going to go for the obvious one a jay. I hear them occasionally . As they started moving onto the island in the last 5 or 6 years. It’s a very harsh sound they make. Nothing nice about it. Apart from it comes from a very pretty bird.
RE: I-Spy....Sounds - Veggie - 23-10-2024
J is for Jelly - the sort you have at a kids party or Sunday tea.
My Mum had a glass, rabbit shaped mould and she'd make a blancmange (usually strawberry) in it and a lime, green jelly in a separate bowl. We kids had the job of tipping the jelly out onto a big plate.....big squelchy, suckering sound ending in a satisfying plop. We'd chop up the jelly to make "grass" and the pink blancmange rabbit would sit in the middle of the "grass".
Sometimes the jelly didn't set very well and that was usually because we had scrounged a jelly cube, before the hot water was added to melt it. Used to love eating jelly cubes - I bet they don't taste the same now!
RE: I-Spy....Sounds - Small chilli - 24-10-2024
K is also a bit tricky. So I’ve decided to go with the sound of knives being sharpened. It’s a job I enjoy doing. Different knives make slightly different sounds and sharpening incorrectly makes a difference sound. The knife sharpener also makes different notes depending what sort you’re using. The purpose built sharpener is a horrible thing and makes a harsh noise. A knife steel is ok for a quick refresh of a slightly dull blade. My preferred method is a sharpening stone.
Apologies! After re-reading that , I sound like a right nerd
RE: I-Spy....Sounds - JJB - 24-10-2024
(23-10-2024, 03:32 PM)Veggie Wrote: J is for Jelly - the sort you have at a kids party or Sunday tea.
My Mum had a glass, rabbit shaped mould and she'd make a blancmange (usually strawberry) in it and a lime, green jelly in a separate bowl. We kids had the job of tipping the jelly out onto a big plate.....big squelchy, suckering sound ending in a satisfying plop. We'd chop up the jelly to make "grass" and the pink blancmange rabbit would sit in the middle of the "grass".
Sometimes the jelly didn't set very well and that was usually because we had scrounged a jelly cube, before the hot water was added to melt it. Used to love eating jelly cubes - I bet they don't taste the same now!
They do, I still have a bite if I'm making jelly. Far better than jelly babies.
RE: I-Spy....Sounds - JJB - 24-10-2024
K
Is for the kettle boiling for a cuppa or the sound of a kite ruffling in the wind, the sort on a string not the raptor.
RE: I-Spy....Sounds - Veggie - 24-10-2024
K is for Kookaburra but I haven't heard one of those for 50+ years so its just a distant memory. Aptly known as the Laughing Jackass, always made me laugh too.
As an aside, I've just realised that lots of Downunder animals' names begin with K..........Koala, Kangaroo, Kookaburra, Kiwi. Wonder why?