I thought I had the "shining" yesterday. I was walking back from the bus and three crows flew in formation above me making a right old racket; "caw, caw, caw". Like a trio of lewd brickies carousing some distant female.

- I've put the "caw"s in speech marks there. This was of course bird speak but I have no idea what bird-speech marks look like -(?).

Anyway, as soon as I heard the cawing I immediately got a high pitched whining in my head (and the funny thing was that Toby was nowhere to be seen - ho ho). This pitched up to a high piercing tone, but then lessened and dropped right off as they flew away. Spooky no? No? No, I suppose not really.

Invention - hand held drill or saw powered by trigger action. Useful when you only have one hand free and no power supply. It will (note the optimistic future tense) look like a gun with either a drill bit or a hacksaw blade sticking out the end and will work by repetitive trigger action.

Just for posterity, we were talking about how slow Merlin is these days (14 year old collie) and Toby agreed, saying that, "if someone said to Merlin run for your life, he would just walk!". Priceless.

Currently listening to Band of Horses' - Cease To Begin album. Absolutely brilliant. I'm gutted I didn't go and see them at Bush Hall last year :0(