by blanc » Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:14 am
1. had extremely odd dream last night , in which I was a nurse in a hospital and holding a baby who had just been operated on for a goitre, and had an open wound in the neck, and on the left side of the abdomen a badly stitched large flap of skin. He was supposed to be only a few days old but could talk. I said to him I'm going to have a word with the surgeon. I didn't find the surgeon, when I returned the baby was lying on the floor, his black hair bleached a peroxide blond, crying, and I was not allowed to go near him. I was told his mother wasn't allowed to go to him either and his father, none other than Blair , was divorcing her and keeping the child. His (dream) wife was hovering in the background and looked nothing like cherie btw. I said, well will I be allowed to write to the child, and was told no, he was divorcing his wife because she had allowed him to sign a family birthday card, and only the eldest child was allowed to sign that, then I asked again why he was divorcing her and I found myself reading a sunday supplement article about how he was replacing the cheap cotton curtains she had put up in the house with pure linen ones. I said but he's not Prime Minister any more. woke up
2. Have a really nice old dictionary which my grandmother bought when she first came to England I guess, which has pictures in it, and in the back all the quaint old measurement systems and a currency calculater for pre decimal currency. this made me think of -
3. We used to be sent to Sunday School with a farthing for the collection box. Who remembers farthings? The Sunday School teacher was a young woman with brown hair who always wore a pale lemon twinset, and read to us from a book. Which makes me think that
4. childhood party food consisted of fish paste sandwhiches and Jelly and evap. big deal was more than one colour jelly. barometer of how childhood has changed?
5. my cat always pokes his little face up at the window as I open the blinds, and hovers around cadging food while I feed the dog, (despite already being fed) this morning he didn't come back for a long time, and when he did he made no sound. this is absolutely unusual, his cat characteristic is that he voices much more than any other cat I've had - vet remarks on it. He is still absolutely silent.
6. As a baby, I was operated on without anaesthetic - aha dream!! - obviously don't recall this but my mother had to hold me down, together with 2 other people. She said 3 month old babies are amazingly strong, and hard to keep still.
7. I marched with the penultimate anti vietnam war march in London, and ended up in front of the us embassy, which turned out to be not the permitted route, but it was impossible to see over the heads in the crowd where we were going. Presumably this diversion was planned and expected, because as a few people near the front of the square started chucking some stones , a posse of police on horseback rode in and laid in to the demonstrators. A girl standing a few feet from me, at the far end of the square, doing nothing at all, was kicked in the face by one horseman who rode up to her intentionally, it seems, across the square. Her boyfriend dragged him off the horse and this photo appeared in all the papers as proof of the thuggery of the demonstrators, but I never saw the cameraman, even though at that point I turned round to get out of there.
8. I'm on my third large coffee, its just about my only drug unless you count alcohol and the occasional kavakava. a close member of my family said apropos of my time reading RI, you realise contributors spend all their time smoking spliffs and reading anarchy books - perishthe thought
9. someone is ripping away with a chainsaw and the hunters are out, they have a technique I don't get. Instead of creeping around stealthily, they blast away on silly little horns. How successful it is I couldn't say, as there is rarely a shot, though one did narrowly miss me once as I put washing out.
10. I'm resolving to tidy up my studio and stop posting ineffectually on RI
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