It’s Friday afternoon, I’ve just watched the trailer for the new Alien film: Alien Covenant.
It looks like standard Alien-fare, lots of scared people running away from aliens, wishing they had made better career choices. I dismiss it, thinking it will be a decent rental, and get on with my day.
Flash-forward (remember that tv series? dreadful stuff) to 2 a.m and I’m woken by my partner, who has heard a noise and thinks there’s something in the room.
We quickly realise that it’s not inside the room – it’s in the loft above our heads.
It’s clearly an animal, you can hear its little feet scampering to-and-fro.
I say little, but at 2 a.m everything takes on added menace.
I flash-back (maybe that will make a better tv series?) to the trailer for Ridley Scott’s latest, imagining face-huggers, and acid-blooded-beasties up there.
So when my partner offers to go and fetch the ladders, so I can go up there, in the dark, and find out what it is, my response is both immediate and gallant.
‘No, I’m not going up there, let’s leave it till the morning’.
It’s the morning now.
I still haven’t been up there.
Bloody Alien films!
Mr Mum: The 'joy' of a stay-at-home dad 
We seem to have squirrels in our attic fairly often, and from time to time we’ll hear a snake drag itself along between our ceiling and the attic floor.
Lovely.
Many, many years ago my sister and I were awakened by a bat in our bedroom. We’ve always lived in “the country” so it didn’t frighten us, but we did want it out – and so did the bat, for that matter. Our dad came up and managed to get it onto the floor and held it down with a flyswatter, while Lynn and I get the cat carrier, which we put on the porch.
By morning, the critter had managed to get itself out of the carrier and away.
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We have loads of bats around where we live now LOADS! Every night when I close the shutters I watch them doing their aerial antics, they get very close to me from time to time but always pull up at the last second. The perks of the countryside eh?
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Wouldn’t live anyplace else, to tell you the truth.
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