The mail tower's bats have been landing in broad daylight these past few weeks. Creatures of the night taking up daytime work, that's never happened in this house before.

• GrahamSwitch to a heavier leg strap. On my way up for a house call, I saw two of them flying back empty-footed.
  OsmonNot empty-footed. It left what it was carrying on a windowsill.
• HavelMeanwhile my tax relief petition, not even a bat's bothered picking it up in twenty years.
  OsmonHavel, that petition was never a bat problem. It's a waterwheel repair estimate problem.
• AlbernKeeping a butler who counts even what happens in broad daylight may be the one mistake of my life.