A high wind in Chalkwell, 2016
I’ve tried to record the sound of the wind before. It didn’t really work, but I listened to “Plantation Fingringhoe” and “Picnic by The River Stour” and, with some tricks I’ve picked up, I thought I might try again, as we seem to be having a few breezy days.
If you come off Chalkwell Esplanade at the west end, you have to cross the railway using the footbridge which has a long slope taking it up to the height of the pavement on the other side of the tracks. That slope is overhung by a tree, so you’ll often hear the wind sighing through bare branches or rustling the leaves, well worth stopping to listen to.
The recording is in two parts again; I left it running waiting for the next train. First of all you hear the wind in the tree, then a couple coming up from the seafront after dog walking. The second part is a little knot of teenage boys who’d gone down to the beach and were coming back again. One of them has his ‘phone ring; they head up the slope; and the train that had arrived, unheard, pulls out. The track curves away from the shore here as it heads towards Westcliff-on-Sea. Blow wind blow.
Recorded just after midnight.
Image of Chalkwell Railway Station copyright Nigel Thompson and used under Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike) licence. View the original here.
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Some do, it can suit them or if you haven’t been able to do it for some reason it’s got to be done then. You see many more dogwalkers out and about at, 5, 6, 7am which to me is, beyond comprehension.
I guess it depends on whether you’re a morning or a night person! Dog-walking at 7am makes much more sense to me than dog-walking at midnight. 🙂
Who goes dog-walking at midnight?
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