The Heart of the Valley would die en route the following year. Her offspring also migrated though five of them also died but the one raised by the dunnocks survived. The mother dunnock died the following winter during a cold spell and was eaten by a fox. The surviving male dunnock mated the following year and had six offspring. The story ends with the writer taking a walk in the valley. The author once narrowly missed hitting a bird whilst driving to a railway station. On the train journey he imagined what might have happened if he hit the bird and it became the starting
Sabu also called Tjety Sabu also called Tjety Sabu also called Tjety was the High Priest of Ptah in the Sixth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, around 2300 BC. Sabu is mainly known from the remains of his mastaba in Saqqara (E.3). The inscriptions on the fragment of a false door were copied in the Nineteenth Century and present part of a biography. The fragments are today in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Sabu bears several titles including: "Greatest of the Directors of the Craftsmen in the two houses" ("wr ḫrpw hmwt m prwy" - this is the title held by the "High Priest of