All yawned out

I had a really bad night’s sleep last night. I went to bed about half past midnight and fell straight asleep. About an hour later I was awake, after the strangest dream. Unusually, I remembered it and still can. I was sat by the side of a pool with a dog. Not a dog familiar to me. Very deliberately it walked into the pool, the level of which then started to go up until it completely covered the dog’s head. I reached in and pulled the dog out by his collar, to find that he had a box in his mouth. I opened the box. Inside it was a mobile phone, the screen of which broke as I looked at it.

I’m not seeking any kind of interpretation of this. I just mention it as it’s very rare for me to remember dreams at all.

Anyway that was me awake for a few hours. The dawn chorus started at 4.47 precisely. I dozed a little after that but was fully awake again by 6.30. I had rather a dip about half past 10 this morning but I’m wide awake again now. I think I shall brush up again on a certain website’s help pages and then go for a walk, crossing as few roads as possible. I believe I shall complain to the Bank of Ireland, about their CSA to whom I spoke yesterday. This will be cheaper done from a public call box rather than my mobile, which means a walk towards the city centre. That’s fine – I want to drop into another couple of banks and look into savings accounts. I won the princely sum of €28 on last Friday’s Euromillions Lottery and rather than see it frittered away, I’d like to see it as the start of saving for the future. I must remember tickets for tonight’s draw.