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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
Likes
Movies
Books
Writing
Theatre
Hugs
Kittens
Chess
Scrabble (mostly beating Cheesy's butt)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Dislikes
Vegetables
Arguments
Cleaning
Trashy TV
Pretensions
Public Transport
Pets
Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Friday, August 12, 2005
For the last three evenings, I thought I was a victim of hallucinations brought about by too much work.
Wednesday evening, when driving home from the studio, my eye was caught by something unusual. One of the trees near the road looked like it had smoke coming off of it - like maybe there was a fire at its base. How odd, thought I. But then the next tree had the same thing. And the next. And the next. Definitely not smoke. But it had the same effect - a grey whisty (is that a word? it is now) smoke like substance - streaming up from the leaves of the trees. Bizarre. I put it down to the fact that I'd been entering invoices for 11 hours and that my eyes were undoubtedly feeling the strain of staring at a computer screen so long.
But then I noticed it Thursday night - again feeling quite disconcerted about it. But again - a long day staring at the computer screen.
Tonight, I spotted it again - fluid grey smoky strands drifting upwards. Unable to cope with the mystery I pulled over. I stared at the tree in question. The strands were definitely there - it wasn't just my eyes playing funny with the light.
Suddenly the mystery of nature seemed to peek at me - was it a new phenomena. Maybe an aura or something outlandishly improbably like that?
I got out of my car and moved closer to the tree. The closer I got the more sure I was it would disappear. But it didn't. So I got closer. And closer. And then finally I was close enough to see what it was.
Midgies.
Bloody midgies.
Thousands of the little bastards, bouncing around the air above the trees in weird little strand like formations.
Mystery of nature? Pah. Bloody midgies.
Did get me thinking though. In the 25 years of my existence, I've never once seen that. Is this a new thing? Have any of you lot seen that before? How can I have gone 25 years and never noticed it. Weird. Guess there's always something new to discover. Even if it is just the behavioural patterns of sodding midgies.
6:56 pm
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