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Roll with it

‘Your peaceful night’s sleep is transformed into a slow, lumbering lollop from side to side’

Ugh!”

<crash>

<clink>

<thud>

“This sucks.”

<slam>

<bang>

<thunk>

I’m awake now, although I’d rather not be, but the swell has other ideas. It is then that my brain starts cataloguing the sounds I’m now hearing, and how important or damaging any of the potential impacts might be.

<chink> is the sound of the washing up, left to dry on

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