It's very peaceful. And very warm already. No one is around.
The rabbits have been fed and are skipping around, pattering on the floor with happiness and full bellies.
I have the window open and am drinking from a huge cup of tea with a slice of lemon in it.
But I wish I could go back to bed... Everyone else in the street is snoozing. That's how it feels. It's like a secret world. When my alarm buzzes at 7am every morning – every morning! – I feel like a spy, getting up to carry out a secret mission before normal people are conscious. Sundays are worst.
Update: am listening to the radio. Apparently there is to be an 'international Maddy day' for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann, and the parents want J K Rowling to insert 'Maddy bookmarks' inside her new Harry Potter books. Why does this make me feel so deeply irritated?
hey mell d, i dreamt about you last night - always odd to dream about someone you only 'know' through blogging. Have dreamt about Signs too before, and she was wise and maternal, also dreamt of Anna MR, she was soothing, have dreamt of Pony Boy, cannot repeat those ones, but you, my dear, had an old man from Newcastle in your living room who spoke very fast . . .
ReplyDeleteRe. Maddy, I feel uneasy even commenting after my frivolity above, is such a sad story, but this little girl is almost becoming a brand . . . very odd the whole thing. I just wish they would find her safe & sound.
Hey NMJ, wow, I feel honoured to have made it into your REM state. (Pony Boy dreams sound extremely questionable!)
ReplyDeleteI am slightly disturbed that I evoke the image of me and an old, fast-speaking Geordie. What can this mean? Seriously?
Maddy is definitely becoming a brand. I can already see book covers... I wish they'd find her, too. Poor mite.
hi m/d, congratulations on making it to the nmj hall of dreams. I do remember wondering if I'd appeared in them as a triangle, but am happy to have been a benign ethereal presence.
ReplyDeleteI think the Maddy business is both irritating and deeply unsettling, a difficult combination. In all such cases, one longs for restoration. I can't believe that bookmarks will help the situation - in which case they are simply distasteful.
Up at 11 today, me.
How very dare you tell me that you woke up at eleven, Signs? Such a low blow. Again. Glad you slept well, though (seriously).
ReplyDeleteYes, this dream malarkey is very odd. I am still waiting for NMJ to explain what she thinks it all means (in my case anyhow).
Agree totally re Maddy. Bookmarks?! I thought I was dreaming when I heard that. Very distasteful.
hey mell d - the dream, well, it is hazy now, but the man from newcastle, he was talking a lot, & you wouldn't say how you knew him, why he was in your house . . . i would read nothing into this, i think it is all random nonsense, perhaps relating to 'the apprentice'. ie. katie, she hates northerners, & you & i both hate katie . . . so there you have it. . there was also a noisy primary school next door (?).
ReplyDelete(please don't tell me you live next to a primary school - that means i have psychic powers...)
i only saw snatches of THE PROGRAMME tonight, i watched instead on BBC2 the profiles of the remaining 5 apprentices, fascinating, makes me dislike katie even MORE, & i would like Kristina to win, she had a baby at 17 & worked her way through university, bringing him up on her own...tre is too volatile but we found out he had a bad car crash at 18 & almost died. he has steel rods in his spine.
okay, dearest mell d, sweet dreams to you.
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Oooooh, lovely spooky NMJ. I lived next to a primary school for 27 years! Then next to a high school. (Now, just next to other homes). Didn't know any Geordies though.
ReplyDeleteI, too, watched the same programme as you and was fascinated to see their histories. Tre is one determined chap – I see him in a much more favourable light now. Also Kristina. And, as for Katie, what a scary woman. If I were Sir Alan I'd not want to keep watching my back with that woman around. Loved the way she was described by Nick as "an assassin".
Have a lovely day, NMJ. Off for my long commute now...
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mell d, that is just too spooky, i seem to have retrospective crystal ball powers x
ReplyDeleteYou do indeed. I think there is something in the air, NMJ. Really.
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