I’m a day behind again, but at 3am this morning, when I woke up in my chair I decided to go to bed. Normally I would write the blog, make sandwiches and generally wake myself up. This time I just went to bed. Four hours later I was wrenched from my bed by a strange dream about a lack of toilet facilities. Do you ever get that one. I frequently do. I then wake up and realise the way out of my dream is to visit the toilet. One day, I suppose, I will wake up after dreaming that I found a toilet. At that point it will be time to move into a home.
The day was OK, and featured quite a decent rainstorm around mid-day, which cleaned the roads and made things a lot cooler.
Comma
Oh, and the computer broke. It went off and when I restarted it kept flashing “Fan Error”. We rang the man who does our computer stuff and he advised us to take the cover off and clean the dust off the fans. We could only find one fan, but we dusted it off and the computer worked again.
On the way home I tried the new roadworks. They were supposed to start on 1st August for a month (oh joy!) but seem to have started already. I tried an alternative route last week, just to see how it went, and that has a set of roadworks on it too. It wasn’t a total success as an alternative route. The normal route with additional roadworks wasn’t too bad, but traffic was light and I imagine it could get hot and unpleasant as the year goes on.
Small Copper
I’m not sure much happened apart from that. It has a tendency to be like that – a chat about Julia’s day, a little TV, a snooze, cook tea (we had pork steaks with roasted veg) and a bit more TV. I had more things planned but my head switched off, which takes us back to the first line.
Common Blue at Screveton
I thought I’d use some butterfly photos- I like butterflies but there have not been many about recently. It was hard finding them. I searched “butterfly” and only two photos came up, and one of them was a coin. Fortunately I realised that I must have titled them with the species, so was able to call more up.
The butterflies are beautiful, Quercus! I’ve seen a few here, but not many.
I’ve had several dreams where I realized I was dead in the dream. In one dream, the only way out was to go through a door marked “EXIT”. Then I woke up. That one was a long time ago.
That sounds like a very worrying dream. I haven’t had that one yet, which is good, becauase I am stupid enough to see what’s through that door . . . 🙂
Right after Hurricane Katrina here, I had a dream I was riding my old horse from my youth. We saw a long line of bedraggled people heading up a hillside. Two men presented a blonde woman on a stretcher, and asked if we could get help. Horse and I rode away over the mountain to get help and ended up in a seaside town. Lots of people milling about, then I realized all of them were dead. I turned around an the woman walked up to me and said thank you, but she didn’t need help anymore. I woke up.
That’s a,lot of dream to cope with! I’m glad I didn’t have it.
I suffer from claustrophobia and last night I had a dream that I was in a submarine and all the lights had failed and there was nobody else around. I panicked and woke up. Then I lay back and breathed a sigh of relief. And then the remembrance made me feel panicky again even although I was awake.
Strangely. I dreamt about being in a dark cave system – an amalgamation of something seen on TV and a memory of getting stuck in a display at the Lead Mining Museum in Matlock Bath. I too am claustrophobic, as was my father. He had to press the Stop button when having an MRI scan. My dream merely left me uncomfortable when I woke in the morning. You have my sysmpathy on this one.
The lack of butterflies is worrying, especially combined with the lack of bees. Can we get Mr Sunak or Ms Truss interested in this do you think?
They will develop a sudden interest if they think there are votes in it. What is even more noticeable in my front garden is the almost total lack of hoverflies.
The same with us. Insects of any sort are scarce.
It is a worrying summer from that point of view.
Regarding Bees. I don’t want this to appear as a self promotion but I wrote yesterday about severe temperature and its disastrous effect on bees.
https://paolsoren.wordpress.com/2022/07/26/bees-2/
“One day, I suppose, I will wake up after dreaming that I found a toilet. At that point it will be time to move into a home.” Had me laughing. Your wit is intact.
Interesting that you have had fewer butterflies this year. I have been saying that too. I cannot remember ever seeing so few butterflies. Bunnies we have in absolute abundance. Riley (dog) helps us find the nests . . . and we have to scurry to fence them off. Dozens so far. And bees have been better than some years but way fewer than 10 years ago. But it’s definitely been a low butterfly year.
The worrying thing now is that a bad year always seems like the start of a terminal decline. maybe I’m just too pessimistic. Ah well, if my own decline persists I won’t have to worry about it twenty years from now. 🙂