29th January 2006
We went for a lovely walk up Rivington today. I even got some half decent pictures of Beanz. Chips got a picture of her with some other dogs to go in her Record of Achievement. Even Nero was on for a game today, it must have been the beauty of nature that got to him.

Here are some cool branches that I couldn't resist getting a picture of. See, age makes you start getting all appreciative of that stuff.

And here is an unusual picture of Carlsberg.

31st January 2006
Angie is back from Cambodia!

On a completely unrelated topic. I have always remembered my dreams, and often done reality tests which showed I was awake, when actually I was asleep. Pinching myself and then thinking "oh, it must be real then". Anyway a few nights ago, I was having a nightmare, and as I was being carried into the medieval torture chamber (don't ask) I suddenly thought to myself, "wait, this is a dream. I can wake up" and the dream melted away and I dreamt I woke up.

Only then I thought I was awake but actually it was just another dream…. Anyway, last night I suddenly realised I was dreaming. So I though to myself, "great, that means I can fly if I want to" so I just jumped off the ground and I was soaring through the air. Of course, then I was so excited I forgot it was a dream so in my mind I genuinely was flying around like a delirious nutter. But I have wanted to do lucid dreaming forever, and then 2 in a month. Apparently you have to practise. You have to reality check. I wonder if it is because I have started meditating and kind of reality checking regularly throughout the day, and that now I am doing it in my sleep as well. It is all bizarre but kind of interesting so I will now go and do a characteristically obsessive web search on the joys of lucid dreaming. If you know anything about it or can do it, please mail me!

Incidentally, "nutter" is not in the microsoft spellcheck. What are they thinking?

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