Fire Alarm Low Battery.
Yes.
Bloody thing.
I didnt know it would do that.
And it was such a long interval between chirps, i did not know where it was coming from.
I knew it was something electronic, the chirp had that ultra consistent duration and timbre even though it didn't last long, and as i recall it was only one brief chirp.
Then nothing for many hours.
After a few days i decided it was upstairs in my house, for a while i had thought it was outside, as i could not think of anything it could be. I had noticed it was a little louder with the door open to the hall (where the stairs are).
So i left all the upstairs doors open too, and next time i noticed a chirp,
it was no different than with the upstairs doors closed.
So i reckoned it was coming from something on the landing area upstairs.
But i didnt find anything that looked different or out of place,
and nothing looked to me like it was made to chirp.
Next day i was lucky, it went off as i walked past it.
My head whipped round like it had been whacked by Mohammed Ali, my eyes fixed on the spot where the sound had come from. A pile of odd bits on a shelf, near the window.
Nothing looked out of place, everything looked the same, all quiet no movement.
I stared at this pile of bits and pieces, then i realised that i was almost looking at a fire alarm that had been sitting there for years.
A little glimmer of recollection came to me ... i wonder if that could be it?
Maybe faulty or low battery ... it was low battery.
A vague sense of relief when i realised it was something so mundane.
I had imagined all sorts of weird things that it might be.
John