Hope Andrew does well in the Nationals. Wish him luck.

We'll all be waiting for dd to come back now to find out how he did.

I scared myself awake again last night, dreaming I was at the doctor's about my eyes. The doctor looked at my eyes then asked me to watch the TV screen. All these horrible abstract images started flashing across the screen in 3D and I said to him, these are worse than my nightmares. Then I found myself pulled of the chair and I was scurrying towards the skirting board opposite like a spider. Then the doctor was towering over me. I had puppet strings which he had hold of and was throwing me around the room, tugging at the strings to make my limbs move and I kept shouting, I'm a puppet on a string. Then I woke up.

 

Later I had another dream. The good thing was that I was rich in this one because I had servants. However one tried a practical joke on me - giving me cream that had very hot pepper inside. He offered it to me to eat. Somehow I suspected the cream was dodgy but went along with it, taking a tiny spoonful. Afterwards I summoned him and told him I should sack him but was being kind and letting him off because I knew what he was up to.

That first one's horrid.

You are totally weird, Nina,. As a friend, I say this. tRY SLEEPING INSTEAD. (CAP LOCK AGAIN), it's much more restful.

Thanks for the advice Meg. Or maybe not going to sleep would be more restful.

Would some of those mild over the counter sleeping pills maybe change the type of sleep to make it more restful?

I don't know, I've never tried, well not for stopping nightmares anyway.

Try the nytol oes. They are very mild.

Do you think they'd help me to dream?

You're welcome to mine.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could decide what and if you wanted to dream before you went to sleep.

That would be great. I could tell myself to dream of Darius and me on a desert island - just the two of us on a hot sandy beach with the sea lapping at our bare feet.

what a horrid dream, I had one last night..was looking out of my back window and the storm clouds were right over head and there was a yellow glow and lightening in the centre of the, it grew louder and louder and we all hid under the coffeee table as the house walls started trembling, then shaking! then it stopped and I looked out the front window to see debri everywhere and my car had gone, ran out to look for it and found it up the road in half amongst rubble!! it was so realistic I woke up quite worried.

It's awful when the dream is so realistic and frightening that when you wake up you feel as if it has actually happened and for a short while you are completely disorientated.

 

 

I, as usual, didn't dream. You'd think I would have. A large part of a tree fell down in the garden. It was our largest apple tree. The trouble is, there was just so many apples on it, the weight tore it from the rest of the tree. It was covering the behind the house but, luckily, had missed hitting it. I've been chopping bits of tree of all morning and will probably be doing the same for quite a while. We are going to be having lots of food with a basic ingredient of apples. I hadn't realised that the branch had got so big

I don't know whether to congratulate you, megham, on such an abundant harvest or commiserate with you about the hard work you've got now.

 

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

 

Nina,

 

Thanks for sharing your dreams. I had one last night but all I can remember from it is a black pair of socks someone, not me, had knitted.

 

Pip,

 

Don't fancy yours. I'll stick to the socks.

I don't know whether to congratulate you, megham, on such an abundant harvest or commiserate with you about the hard work you've got now.

 

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

 

Only if you throw them REALLY hard.

 

I wondered why you were chopping apple tree branches in another thread....now I know

Glad it didn't hit anything...and none of you were in the garden at the time

That was lucky. The fact that it didn't hit the house was the thing that struck me. Can you imagine Dave coming home and finding a hole in it?