Sunday, December 03, 2006

Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre

Been back into hospital recently, checking out that my throat is fixed. They say I'm ok, in fact; I have to return in six months so that they can tell me again that I'm still ok. Takes ages to get into the system, but once you are in it, they look after you very well.

While I was there, I had a hearing test. My hearing is quite good, apart from mild tinnitus, which makes me believe I have twin TVs on every room, that high pitched warm-up whine, as a constant background. Not so bad, they said, and no evidence of hearing damage - just being middle aged. I have a slight dip at 6k and 8k - the place in the audio spectrum where consonants "s" and "t" and "p" live, the upper vocal range. Female voices in particular, the consultant advised me, I may struggle to hear against background noise.

Now I know why men cease to hear the voices of women when they reach a certain age.

At one point, I had a forty minute wait, so I left the hospital in Grays Inn Road and went for a walk around Kings Cross. I found this huge, cracked mirror, just standing in a street. I wondered how it had come to be broken, and whether the seven years bad luck was extra bad when the mirror was this big. I stayed snapping for ten minutes - out of the 30 or so images, these are my favourites.




AddThis Social Bookmark Button

2 Comments:

At 11:47 AM, Blogger dweller quoth...

Hi Mr Radioactive,
Glad to hear your checkup went well. I had my appointment a couple of weeks ago. They told me I'm ok too and I'll go back in 9 months.

I love the mirror photos,
when I lived in kilburn I took
shots of the circular mirrors at the end of the platform at kilburn tube station to satisying effect.

 
At 3:58 PM, Blogger La Sirena quoth...

Years of nightclub work has damaged my ability to hear male voices -- so perhaps you're on to something.

I like the cracked mirror shots.

 

Post a Comment

<< Home





Web pages referring to this page:
Link to this page and get a link back..