A series of unexpected events

Things you do not expect to see while walking through North Oxford:

( Is it a bird... )

Things you do not expect to need in the normal course of your work: a Finnish-English legal dictionary. Damn, but Finnish is a difficult language...

Things you do not expect on walking into the workroom: for the power-assisted door to be neither powered nor of assistant and to hit you hard on the shoulder instead. You also do not expect your colleague to laugh as a result.

Things you do not expect after the August we've just had: the glorious weather this afternoon. That helped somewhat :)