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August 09, 2005
The Burden of an Overactive Subconscious and Unhealthy Bedtime Habits*
Mo Mowlam came to visit me in the night.
Or at least her head did.
It appeared above my bedroom door, floated towards me and slowly dematerialised above my own head.
I think that perhaps I wasn’t awake, although I certainly thought I was at the time.
I then went to sleep and had a dream that my Mother took my daughter out on a night on the tiles and then drove her back in the car.** I then noticed that Littleone had lumps of vomit in her hair and asked how this had happened. Mum laughed and then slurred that her and some mates had got so drunk that they had thrown up on the kid’s head. To which both I and Mr PE rather uncalmly reminded her of her irresponsibility and threw her out of the house.
When I took the child to bed, to my horror she was already there fast asleep. So I was all of a sudden presented with two daughters who looked exactly the same, except one was clean and the other had vomit in her hair. I tucked the dirty one into bed beside her doppelganger and then I woke up.
Sadly no part of Mo Mowlam had returned.
* I fear that Dracula should be reserved for morning reading. Perhaps The Dorset Bedside Book is more suited to this time of day. Note to self - The clue is in the title. Just a thought.
**Of course I shouldn’t need to add here that in real life my Mum is one of the very few people with whom I’d entrust my Daughter.
Posted by purple elephant at August 9, 2005 10:35 AM