SOME days it seems like sirens, sirens everywhere and not a moment to think.
It's starting to sound like the emergency services are having something of a competition to come up with the daftest sound.
And it's going to be a close race as they get more and more bizarre.
In the good old days you knew where you were with sirens. The good old two tone – you couldn't beat it. You knew where that was coming from. And ambulances even used to have nice, tinkling bells. Sweet.
Although, apparently not. For the modern sirens are supposedly designed to give you a better sense of where the noise is emanating. Or perhaps it's the only way to cut through the noise of the car's music system so you've only yourselves to blame.
Yes, in that complete cacophony of sound that ranges from a crazed ice-cream van to a full-on spaceship laser attack, your ear drums are supposed to make sense of it all and pick up the direction of travel.
I'm beginning to suspect my ears may be on the blink.
