Perchance To Dream
After a busy day of doing 'jobs', come five o'clock, we can be found slumped on the sofa watching ' A Place in the Sun', 'A New Life in the Sun', 'Help! We Bought a Village' or some other programme based on property renovation Anna, my wife, wants to watch. Usually around property number two Anna will 'get more comfy' and assume the horizontal position putting her feet on my lap. Before property number three she will 'rest one eye', and stare at the telly like Popeye...shortly followed by the other. Convinced she has reached DEFCON 2 level of sleep or the nasal whistling has begun, I will reach for the remote control and have a flick... “I was watching that!”, “You were asleep”, “No I wasn't” , etc. This also happens on long car journeys, sometimes when she is driving! I'm chastised for not being able to sleep in the passenger seat when she is driving, “well someone's got to stay awake!” Having written off the ca...