Work last week began the same way it
always did; I was up at seven and out of the door by eight with a tea to go,
white, no sugar. The tea to go has become a sort of luxury since I received a
flask for Christmas, before I used to have to juggle an average sized mug,
visibly over-filled whilst driving as it only ever managed to fit in the cup
holder on a slant. Inevitably, there was always more tea in the van than in the
cup… Or my stomach for that matter.
However, less about the tea! It was
early last week that I was woken before my alarm went off. Now, I'm a light
sleeper and so it's not unusual for me to be woken by strong rain against the
window or someone wandering around the house. What was unusual was that it
wasn't the weather or a little monster around the house, it was the phone. I
didn't get up in time to answer the phone; I assumed that they would call again
if it was important. Although, it did get me thinking.
Who was it?
Was it important?
Now there's no chance of me going
back to sleep.
Rising out of bed, I scrambled to
find my balance in the dark, as I fell over yesterday’s clothes and a pile of
fresh laundry. There and then, I vowed to put the laundry away when I arrived
home from work (though I knew I probably wouldn’t.) Pulling my legs through the
mess on the floor, the thought of a morning coffee was all I needed to get
myself down the steps.
As I picked the kettle up from the
stand and turned to the sink, I gazed out of the window into the garden, It was
still dark and there was not much to see other than what appeared to be the
remnants of an old bird nest, the twigs were scattered across the garden path
but It looked abandoned. For a while the noise of the running water and
children getting ready for school faded. I wondered if next doors cats had
knocked the nest out of the tree, Bobby was always prowling through the gardens
of every one on the street. He looked around the gardens as if each were
colonies to add to his empire. As if he was on a property programme picking and
choosing which garden would work for him. Bobby wouldn’t make a sound but you
could tell what he was thinking in the way he pranced around the garden. He
embedded his paw prints in the mud and proceeded to destroy any personality the
previous owners had added, this included rolling on the flowers and digging
through the pebbles on the drive.
A burning sensation seeped through my
thoughts. Boiling hot water was over flowing, gushing down the the outside of
the kettle and drowning my hand. I wondered what sorcery Bobby had cast upon me
to allow him into my thoughts and distract me from the most import job of the
morning. After that I didn’t give much thought to Bobby or his early morning
antics. I justified my lack of interest by reminding myself two things: It was
too early, and I hadn’t even had my coffee yet. This made me feel a little less
guilty about the madness that had taken place the night before in my very own
garden.
Before I could sit down at the desk
my phone began to ring again. Now I was fully awake I noticed it didn’t sound
the same as usual. The call wasn’t as loud or nearly as high pitched as I
recalled. I dismissed this thought thinking, the children must have landed
their hands on my phone again. My theory was then proven almost one-hundred
percent bomb proof as the search for my phone went on in vein.
Is it in the van? No I’ve heard it
this morning Where’ve you heard it this morning?
In the bedroom and just now in the
office!
So you’ve heard it in the bedroom and
in the office but you haven’t moved it?
My wife looked amused and pointed to
the roof.
‘I’ve named him Screech…
They’re coming today
She said Who?
I called Rennie Roofing services; he
suspects we’ve got owls nesting in the roof.
I thought my wife was joking, owls
were supposed to nest outside. What was it doing in my house? My wife told me
she noticed the nest a couple of days earlier and when she began to hear noises
she realised the owl must have moved into our house when his house fell apart.
Shortly after, I changed my ringtone.
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