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Who am I kidding?

I have these plans. Oh, you know. Like I'll write a book. Or articles for magazines. Or start an exciting company doing something rather novel. Maybe I'll become a therapist or a philosopher, a witch or Viking or reserve manager for the Wildlife Trust.


In reality, what I am is a person who likes lying in bed with her cats playing with her cat game and listening to audiobooks about people who have written books or become philosophers or are Vikings or witches.


Why keep up the pretense? I mean, why not just admit that I don't have ambitions at all. I just have... voyeurism? Is there an equivalent of that with a root referencing hearing not eyes? Eavesdropper?


Eavesdropper? What a weird word. Is it related to dropping from the eaves like I was afraid the baby wrens would do? Let me check....


eavesdropper (late Middle English )‘a person who listens from under the eaves’, from the obsolete noun eavesdrop ‘the ground on to which water drips from the eaves’, probably from Old Norse upsardropi, from ups ‘eaves’ + dropi ‘a drop’.


Right.


On the subject of the wrens, I think one of the babies is living in the garden. That might make up for the lack of a kid.

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