The trouble with writing blogs, especially when you’re publishing things that have happened that day, is that you just don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Having expounded several theories yesterday regarding why the birds have vanished…

Today I’m sitting drinking tea on the sea front in thick fog, the café is about to close, no tourists, indeed very few people at all saving those of us who seem to like standing on the beach in weird weather (what is it about fog? It’s like staring at nothing, but at the same time, the nothing is so clearly, palpably, something) and then there’s a pigeon by my feet, and then another, and then the family of crows arrives with a great chorus of croaks. So much for my observations then… only maybe they do keep a safe distance when there are too many people at the café, especially if one of them is waving a broom around. And it’s good to know that the birds are just biding their time in the certain knowledge that people are really only a transient phenomenon.