There's a bat in me apartment, what am I gonna do?!!

After a long working day the last thing you feel like in a very hot place is to cook but needs must!  So as I reach for the stock cubes they are full of ants.  As I reach for the measuring jug it is full of strange winged beasties... but I persevere in a v ungracious grumpy fashion to cook a meal that will v soon be straight out our delicate digestive systems anyway!!  As we finish the power goes off, I try to see the positive that at least we are all fed and John tries some ingenious method with water bottles and sand to get some candlelight - certainly not of the romantic variety!! As we are scraping the leftovers into the bin (by torchlight) 2 dogs appear at my legs.  To say I nearly died would be an understatement and the scream inside was something to behold... so we manage to shower the boys by candlelight and just as we think the kids can settle down in bed a bat comes into our lounge.  The balcony doors were wide open, but it was the only way of keeping cool with out a fan... David screams and I scream, so much for a calming maternal influence!  Finally John appears and sternly assures us to stop being so silly as it is only a bird.  Regardless David and I retreat and lock ourselves in the toilet.  A few minutes later as the creature continues to circle round and round the power comes back on so we think it is safe to come out.  At this point the power has switched the fan back on so the creature hits itself on the fan. John then says it is a bat and he had only said it was a bird to keep all calm so the boys and I all scream again, run into the bedroom, the quickest the boys have ever got into bed as they jump under the safety of the mossie nets.  I close the door and am immensely grateful I can leave the creature to John's capable hands.  There are times it is most certainly good not to be a man... John has to do nothing as the creature has concussion from the fan and falls into our laundry basket.  John tips it over the balcony and I finally creep out to John doing the Hallelujah chorus as he closes the doors and we can all breathe again...