supermouse

Woke up this morning at 5:15am to a searing bright light dazzling me through closed eyelids, after a late night punctuated with tympani and the ear-itching whine of two mosquitoes. The second mosquito turned out to be tinnitus, I discovered, after I gave up on finding it, plugged my ears, put my head under a pillow and could still hear it loud and clear and horrible. I think I much prefer the tinnitus that sounds like car alarms.

Today I will not have to water the garden, and any rain that is falling is going to be fertilised - lightning strikes create nitric acid that enriches the soil. And boy is there plenty of lightning. And rain. I imagine some people are going to be running out and basking in all the glorious wet coolth.