Next door's lawnmower. Too small for the garden and drones on for ages.

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

Improvisational jazz with several instruments blaring random notes at different tempos and honking on for hours at a time.

Electronic bleeps -all of them!

From car unlocking, lorries reversing, supermarket scanners to fire alarms and emergency vehicles two-tones.

If you wear hearing aids, you'll understand.

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

Well that explains my tinnitus, just off to my MENSA meeting

One more point

Having your front room next to rockbottoms drum cavern in west Croydon.
I reckon animal visited quite often

I have a bit of an aversion to whistling. I'm fine with birds singing, steam engines and even actual whistles being blown, but the sound of people whistling often gives me those 'eebie geebies'. I haven't always been like that, but over the past 10-15 years it's become one of those things that really gets on my nerves.