I love music. I love many genres of music to the point of eclecticity and possibly eccentricity. (I am aware I made up the first of these words before someone calls the grammar and language police). My old CD collection has classical, country, folk, rock, pop, jazz, soul, blues. Infact if there is a musical style I am likely to have it in my collection. Well, the gansta rap is so thin on the ground as to be invisible but most other genres are covered.
In pre-pandemic days, when I was at home on my own and the Wing Commander had an alloted office space to occupy elsewhere beyond the domestic paradise, I would play my music on the ancient Hi-Fidelity system or more recently through my Sonos speaker. However, I became aware that when the breadwinner came home he would turn the volume down or even, if grumpy, turn it off. Therefore, when his takeover and occupation of my office became permanent in the new ‘Work From Home’ era. I was solicitous enough not to subject him to nightclub levels of decibels while he wrestled with the Project Planning and Cost of Important Things.
In this period of musical dearth I was relegated to using miPod with, at first, shonky old headphones, and more recently, with state of the art (or so I was led to believe) ear buds. These earbuds, state of the art or otherwise, are, however, entirely unsuitable for a newly prescribed hearing-aid-wearing pensionista and so I have been hankering after some decent headphones. The Wing Commander came through at Christmas with a spiffy set of Bose headphones in a fetching gray colour. My joy was overed.
On the downside, if there is a downside to noise-cancelling headphones, I am totally unaware of conversations he is trying to have with me (even more so than the pre-hearing aid era) and, as I discovered today, he is, on the other hand, very aware when I decide to sing along to, in today’s case, Adele. I received a visit. I was telt, as we say in Scotland. More care needed in future. But I love my new headphones. Music, play on!
Significantly Different 