TWEET (nothing to do with twitter)

With Summer supposedly officially here (interspersed with some rainy, stormy "soup weather" days) the birds are out and singing a lot. I've noticed them more than before this year - especially in our big tree in the front garden. Perhaps the tree is a bit healthier than it has been (after the burning down of the house next door and the subsequent building of the new house it didn't look so great)? In any case, there is a particular bird call which has woken me up for the last 2 mornings which sounds EXACTLY like the washing machine when it beeps (when there's an error and the load needs repacking because it's too heavy on one side): beep beep beep BEEP. Tweet tweet tweet TWEET.

Shows how tuned in my mind is to all the mechanical signals around me.

If I leave my computer volume too high, I also wake up when I hear a telltale 'blip' of an email arriving. Or a whooosh of an email finally leaving. Or a blip-blip of someone coming online...