We’ve been here for 10 years and EVERY YEAR at least several times in the summer, I ask Ian what he thinks the birds think of bats – with their wings on backwards.
So, I was a little surprised when recently, Ian said to me ‘do you think that birds think that bats are birds with their wings on backwards’. I assumed he was joking and taking the mickey out of me, because this is something I say a lot. But apparently not. I wonder what else he’s filtered out!
When we first spent the evening outside earlier this summer, we saw a moving ‘thing’ in the sky. I’ve got an ISS (international space station – not a terrorist group) app on my phone which says when it’s flying over, so we looked at that, and it was, indeed (and probably thankfully), the space station. The next night we asked when it was going over, looked at the app, looked in the sky – and there it was. But the strange thing is, the first three or so nights it was there almost ‘on demand’. Finish tea – look in the sky – see space station. But since then it’s going over at other times, and I’m not that interested in it to get up in the night to see it! So what a coincidence that our first evenings sitting outside coincided with the space station going over at tea time.