As I was about to head out I stopped for a quick smoke by one of the garbage bins outside Sainsbury’s, and was surprised to see the Lady B walk past with her youngest daughter. She was only inches away but showed no sign of recognition.
I watched her walk to her car in one of the nearby parking bays and strap her little girl into a child seat, and then she turned to look briefly in my direction before climbing into her car and driving away.
That made me a little sad, but what was even sadder was that she looked unhappy. The daylight always sinks noticeably when the Lady B looks unhappy.
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But on a lighter note…
Sightings of the twilight bats have been in short supply this year. I’ve occasionally seen a single bat hunting around one of the trees by the lane at the bottom of my garden, but no more than that.
Yesterday evening was different. There were two of them and they were hunting around my house. I was so pleased to see them that I called a ‘hello’ quite loudly, at which point one of them flew down to my eye level, performed a loop, and then flew back up to the roof to continue feeding. I think I might be allowed the luxury of seeing it as a reciprocal greeting, don’t you?
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