Tiny Friday adventures, part 1

[white_hart]

Today was my non-working Friday, and I got up, and left the house, and got a bus to town, and went to the Bodleian where they have an exhibition about divination, which was interesting.

And then I bought a book in the gift shop, and a coffee and cake in the cafe, and went to get the bus home and discovered I'd dropped my Loop earplugs in the cafe when I was paying, and went back calmly to retrieve them and then actually got the bus home and crashed out for the afternoon. It may have been the tiniest of tiny adventures, but apparently it took quite a lot of energy.

I won't be swimming this weekend, because it probably actually is too cold (there is a non-zero chance of the lake actually being frozen, and while we have broken ice to swim before we were way more acclimatised then). I might go for a walk instead.

Comments

[mountainkiss]

Loop earplugs are for noise sensitivity?

[white_hart]

Yes, that's right. Mostly I use them on the bus but they are also brilliant in loud restaurants as they don't block out all the sound, just dampen it enough to be bearable while I can still have conversations.

[mountainkiss]

That sounds super useful and sensible.

[perennialanna]

My children are huge fans of Loops for school. Blocks out the noise intrinsic to 800 students changing classrooms at once, or 400 children eating dinner at the same time in a low-ceilinged room with a hard floor, but allow them to hear the teacher. And very much less obvious than the standard issue ear defenders for children with noise sensitivity, which are big over-ear headphones, generally in bright colours.

[joyeuce]

My daughter tried Loops but couldn't cope with having things inside her ears, so has to make do with her bright red ear defenders (though at least these ones don't have a princess crown on, like the ones she had in primary school). I love my Loops to dampen noise on the train/tube, but found I couldn't really talk with them in.