Black hawk not down

The army helicopters were out practising manoeuvres again last night.

As I wandered through our field of choice, the dog was playing with what looked like the best stick ever, when I was aware of the dull thud of a helicopter approaching, even over the dulcet tones of Heidi Rodewald (www.stewsings.com click on Bio page and then scroll down) echoing through my ears.

Unlike the last time this happened, this time there were two helicopters. The first swooped overhead probably 200 ft off the ground, with all of its lights out. Now that was quite strange. The second then followed seconds later, with all its lights on almost as if it was searching for the first one.

It was very impressive indeed. In fact I was so impressed that as the second one came over I waved at it. It was of course dark, so I put my wave down to excited boyish joy at such machinery. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.