Okay so this is the STUPIDIST thing I've done all week

Two nights ago I was in bed drifting in sleep when I suddenly heard something. Sort of a fluttering sound, quite close to my head. A few minutes later I heard it again. My eyes flew open, and I was suddenly terrified. A bat! A bat was somewhere in the bedroom! I looked around in the semi-darkness, but I couldn't see it.

I staggered down the stairs and called to Rob in a strangled voice. "There's a bat! I heard it"

I'm totally freaked out by bats. Yes, I know that they don't fly in people's hair, but I am. Shut up. So Rob deals with them. (It's okay, because he's freaked out by spiders, so I always deal with those.) So, following our usual protocol, I shut myself up in the bathroom, gibbering in mild panic while Rob, intrepid and Mighty Hunter, patrolled the house with a flashlight and a pickle jar. After twenty minutes, he announced that he couldn't find it. "It's strange," he said. "Usually if they're here in the house, they don't alight for very long, and I see them flying around."

"Well, I didn't see it, but I definitely heard it." I was sure about that. Reluctantly, I went to bed and slid uneasily into sleep.

Last night, I heard the sound again. This time I was just slightly more awake, and suddenly I knew what the sound was. I had to hide my face in my pillow from my own mortification.

Yes, Friendslist. I'd gone into full mode Bat Panic and made Rob search the house because I'd scared myself with the sound of my own snoring.

Oh, Rob is going to laugh when I tell him!

What did Shakespeare look like as a kid?

Apparently, he looked a bit like Daniel Radcliffe.

An artist with Britain's Metropolitan Police claims to have created an image of what Mr. Shakespeare might have looked like as a 14-year-old laddie.

Cathy Charsley, the artist, is apparently highly trained in "age progression," and drew from this training to create the image. Using various portraits of the adult Shakespeare and the police's EFIT (Electronic Facial Identification Software), Charsley was able to come up with the image of the young William Shakespeare.

"I have been trained in age progression, so I worked in reverse, deciding how the face would be different if aged 14, and what features were important," she said.

Apparently, the younger William rather strongly resembled Daniel Radcliffe (who plays Harry Potter) with the fuzzy beginnings of a handlebar moustache.

Young Shakespeare, using age progression software

Article here.