I'd just read about a new phenomena that UK researchers of the natural world had been studying.

Throughout the Coronavirus pandemic, we have seen the return of wildlife wandering onto the world's empty streets and scientists have been tracking the newly-discovered habitats by animals and creatures, vacated by the stay-at-home human species.

They called it 'Anthropause' after the global-scale, temporary slowdown in human activity, likely to have a profound impact on other species. Measuring that impact, they say, will reveal ways in which we can "share our increasingly crowded planet".

So that afternoon a swarm of worker bees occupied a short length of Oxford Street. Shoppers dodged the little creatures, grown men yelped.

"The people don't understand nature! .. They're harmless if they don't hit them, they're only moving homes!" said a security guard from rural Portugal. But shop workers, whose recently re-opened trinket store had them crawling up the windows, gassed them with fly-killing aerosol.

For just twenty minutes, Homo sapien shoppers prevailed that day