My girlfriend lives in a suburb that can easily be described as very leafy. Long lanes of greenery bounding onto the road, nice properties, you know the drill. There is also a large park surrounded by what we Aussies call bush land. Here, on the steep pathway leading up to her apartment block, you may come across all manner of wildlife: brown snakes (not to be messed with), possums, rats, owls. The other day I walking there at night and suddenly looked overhead at this huge bat that skimmed over my bonce. It was quite a sight. I do like a bit of Gothic imagery, me.
