Oh what it is ...
... to be known so well by ones neighbours!!
I have just taken some stuff out to the recycling boxes and my next door neighbour was shivering under her car port - having a cigarette.
She asked me what I was cooking - I told her I had just cooked a gammon and was now making soup - then I asked how she knew I was cooking - her answer made me laugh!
Apparently she can tell what I am doing by what I am singing!!
Gardening = folk songs or (oddly) sea shanties
Ironing = opera,
General housework = Country and Western or Rock'n'Roll.
Cooking = Irish songs
I have to own up to always singing about the place - but had not realised that the songs were task related or that anyone paid so much attention!!