I glanced out the window of my back room recently, which looks out over a school playing field. My attention had been captured by something in the distance bouncing around the grass.

At first, I thought it was a grey squirrel, but its bushy tail was horizontal and not vertical and the animal seemed to be too long. Admittedly, I know very little about bushy tails or body lengths of living creatures, so it could well have been a lemur or a bush baby or indeed a grey squirrel.

Regardless, I dashed downstairs to dig out binoculars I’d purchased years ago to keep track of the birds bobbing about on the Liffey.

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