universal Slence,

Silence a meal times is a oddity in my house it is generally noisy (I think anyway).

Well on the evening of the 5th of July we experienced one on those world stopping slow motion silences you see in films.
Over something quite trivial at the time radio 4 had been filling the gap from big Ben six o'clock chimes with bird chimes and it was the first night that big Ben was due back.
As we waited the few seconds that where left between the announcer reading the last news head line and the space where the chime should be. Gap grew and as we all waited and in anticipation of the chimes to come.

It seem to be that the whole world had come to a standstill the birds stopped chirping and we all waited for the noise waited for those bells to tole.