My Empty Dentist

If I'd accepted the job I was offered last year, today would have been my first day. As it was, it was my first day back at work anyway, sort of. Officially, we start back tomorrow, but the auditors are coming so I went in for a couple of hours this afternoon to get things ready. So that was fun. No, really. It was nice to have a couple of hours uninterrupted by the phone or emails or people. I wonder if I could work at odd hours when no-one else was there? I don't see my boss going for that.

Starlings like having baths. Love it. I have to fill the bird baths at least twice a day after they splash all the water out. This evening there was a starling bathing and a baby one standing on the side. The baby one was doing all the splashing movements but, crucially, wasn't actually in the water. It clearly thought it was having a bath, but hadn't quite grasped the essential part.

Talk me out of buying this thing?