Anything that might make a noise is prohibited here on a Sunday - Jul has noted this too. "Not that I’m actually considering starting my own religion…"

Vacuuming is frowned upon, you may not wash your car and you most certainly may not take your empty bottles to the recycling containers!
Yet the churches openly break this strict law every Sunday, with bells clanging away for half an hour at a time as if they were trying to wake the dead!

There is another, more subtle way of breaking the law too. Cows!

Outside my window is a meadow full of cows, each one of them sporting a bell.
Surprising, the different sounds a cow-bell can make. First, there are different sized bells for the older and for the younger cows. Then there are the sounds of them cantering across the meadow, the more muffled sound of them eating and the slower sound of them chewing the cud.

My landlord lives in the next house 500 m away. He is 92 and has lived with the sound of cow-bells all his life.
He insists the local farmer remove the bells from the cows grazing in the meadow around his house - they disturb his mid-day nap!
I suppose you must get that way, as you grow older ...
... I, for one, find the sound of the cow-bells to be most calming - the world is in good order.

But no - now I come to think of it, it can't be age. Last month my neighbour had guests from Germany staying for a fortnight.
On their third morning, they asked, if there were any way to stop the cockerel from crowing every morning ...

... well, I thought that was one of the things about getting out of the city, at least they didn't need an alarm clock!