Finn
When we were standing on top of the lighthouse, the wind was very strong.
The kittiwakes were swooping and banking hard to steer against it.
If Leonardo da Vinci had been there, he might have written about that in his Codex on the Flight of Birds.
The Old Lady was watching the birds too.
She was probably thinking about flying the planes. And maybe about Amy Johnson.
Mum wasn’t watching the birds, because she was too busy stressing about the time and looking at her watch a lot.
Nowadays, planes have computers to work out all the navigational stuff, so it would be a lot easier to fly by dead reckoning. If Amy Johnson had had a computer – even one just the size of Dad’s laptop – or at least a working radio, she wouldn’t have been shot down.