Hubbub, chatter and speaking in tongues...

I've been wearing the instrument for just 2 hours now and a whole new soundscape has opened up.

My mate Stephen told me it would be noisy and it is. But for the moment it's a wonderful noise. I came back via Selfridges food hall, the Central line, Circle line, Partridges and the 319 bus.

Everywhere there is hubbub, but, out of the hubbub I can hear conversations. I can actually hear what people are saying to one another on the tube and on the bus.

The funny thing is that so many of them were speaking Russian or Polish with a smattering of Spanish. And I could tell those languages apart. When English was being spoken I could follow conversations without trying at all...

Is this what it's like? Can everyone else hear those things? I have no recollection of experiences like this from even when I was much younger. Perhaps I've just forgotten.

Now I'm back at home the sound of my keys jangling as I unlocked the door, the sound of the patio door swish, the sound of this keyboard and even the flush of the loo have so much more top end.

For the moment, at least, I am like a pig in a poke...