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DIY and washing machine

10 Shenstone Road, Reading, Reading RG2 0DT, UK

A field recording by Felicity Ford made in Reading, United Kingdom on 25 January 2015, in the morning. Soundscape: construction & industry.

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We have recently been redecorating our dining room to make more space for our work things and to make it a calmer colour. I wanted us to put up a lot of shelves and the only way to mount the batons is to drill through the old plaster into the brick walls; the bricks are very strong and so we need to use the hammer drill to get into them. In this recording you can hear Mark and then me doing stints of drilling, getting up and down off the ladder, and picking screws and rawlplugs off the mantelpiece. In the background, our washing machine is churning away. A very productive morning.

Written by Felicity Ford on radio aporee ::: maps.

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Reading is a city of about 318,014 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 153 field recordings from here.

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