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September sounds

Five sounds from last night, in Cambridgeshire:

• Occasional road traffic
• Owls hooting next door
• A house going to bed
• Goods train passing on the nearby mainline
• My breathing: slow, measured, relaxed

Five from tonight, in Suffolk:

• The hum of my laptop fan
• Next door's television, drifting in through open windows
• People chatting in the street
• A car struggling up the hill
• The high whine I hear when I'm too tired

I'm home at last. Tomorrow I go to work.