Chronicled on the 14th Nov. 2018....
"Morning from here.
Woken to the most incredible knocking sound just on midnight, an echoing coming from the wall that joins the kitchen on to the main part of the house, my room is above the kitchen - there's an old chimney in the wall there.
Thought it was the mater up and scratching the walls as she has been wont to do. Dressed and downstairs and it was above me as I came through the door. The mater was well-asleep though.
Other than the old man or someone from the graveyard next door visiting, (the wall is just about dead on the lay-line) I can only put it down to a rat or squirrel caught in there - it went quiet after I was up and stayed that way."
In retrospect, it was a bat in there - it probably moved up the chimney on sensing me below - and with that picked up the fresh air and was gone.
So no thanks to bats please..... my daughter is nuts about them and this pic is from Austin in Texas when up to 2 million come out!
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