Well, its Saturday night and the neighbours are having a party.
Nothing unusual you say … and normally I would agree with you. This street is a great street …. a combination of young families with babies, a large extended arabic immigrant family, a couple of christian asians, some guy with a horse trailer we never see, an extremely weathly buddist family and normal old us. On the whole a quiet and peacful bunch. However the arabic family next door are prone to some very loud and well populated celebrations.
And tonight … they are having an engagement party. So along with the incredible volume of people talking and singing, you have this fabulous modern middle eastern music …. accompanied by the occassional arabic yodelling (what on earth is that actually called?). And thankfully tonite the dog has decided it does not mean the world is ending, so I don’t have to lock him in.
I hate to say it but compared with your average Aussie BBQ, full of the sounds of dunk the stubbie, drunken fights and late night renditions of “Kaysan” …. its a lovely background noise.