There I sat, working away – in the house on my own. I was concentrating on what I was doing, when suddenly I heard a noise in the hallway.
“Strange”, I thought.
“Noise in the hallway”, I thought.
“Why am I talking to myself again”, I thought.
I looked around, and there fluttering towards the ground was a leaf.
Why is a leaf fluttering to the ground indoors??
Shit.
The Ghost of the Twigman has decided to haunt me.
Why can’t I have a normal ghost who might moan a bit, shove a wardrobe a couple of feet and clank the odd chain every now and again.
But no, I get the ghost of the Twigman…
I went to find out what was going on – bravely of course – I strode into the hallway to combat the ghost (I actually creeped up to the door, heart thumping ten to the dozen, and leant my head around the side of the door).
It was at this point I realised it wasn’t a ghost. A picture that my eldest daughter had done, which was made up of leaves, had slipped because the Blu-Tac had come from the wall, and during the slipping one of the leaves had dislodged.
I’m so cool…

It reminded me of a time when we had just moved into this house, and I thought we had another ghost.
It was the middle of the night, and I must have left the PC running by mistake. Anyway, at about 3am we were awoken by the noise of the PC closing down in the next room (you know the de-de-de-de noise windows makes when it shuts down). This was before I realised that some windows updates will do this automatically.
Anyway I was convinced that a ghost had re-started the PC.
And I even came to the conclusion that it must be ghost of someone who had died recently, as they wouldn’t know how to restart a PC otherwise.
But then I found out about the windows update thingy, and it put my mind to rest.
Once again…I’m so cool….