My sister and I were rummaging in the basement of our home in Deal, to see if we could find where the parents had hidden all the Christmas presents last year, and we came across this little brown papery parcel beneath the staircase. The parcel being a tiny dead bat. It is now the house’s lucky charm, and despite the fact that we haven’t artificially preserved it in any way, it has remained in its perfect condition, as if it were just fast asleep.