Buzz buzz in the eardrum

If I had ever thought to lie awake at night and ponder what a fly might sound like when heard from a distance of approximately ten thousand miles away, I would have just received my answer.

It sounds buzzy. There.

In fact, it sounds almost exactly like a fly does if it is buzzing right next to your ear. Except with a different accent. Because it is, of course, a foreign fly. An intercontinental fly. A fly from a different hemisphere.

So I am now lying awake wondering about this fly. Wondering if it realised, in that brief moment, that it was broadcasting to the world. Wondering if its tiny brain can even begin to comprehend how, via the miracle of modern communication, it has just become the most widely travelled globe-trotting fly in insect history. Answer: probably not.

Just because life is complicated, doesn’t make it any less complete.