Strange
as it may seem to some, my best, most refreshing, sleep frequently occurs after
the returning daylight hours have become established. No matter how restless,
torturous, or even relaxed the preceding bed-rest hours have been, any sleep
attained after say 08.00hrs always seems to be the soundest. As for night’s,
and when applicable daytime’s snatched sleep or rest, I have to admit that I
feel truly blessed whenever I manage to emerge from the experience feeling
properly ‘refreshed’, an event that
may occur as often as one occasion in the week. How blissful it is to have
temporarily overcome the phenomenon of ‘unrefreshing’
sleep.
After
that rambling prologue, I now move on to today’s difference. Having retired to
the duvet lair at 23.00hrs, last evening, I managed to snatch my first spell of
sleep after 02.20hrs. By 04.10hrs I briefly attained a state of semi-alertness
which was followed by intermittent bouts of sleep and waking alertness. At
around 9.00am, my beloved took Piper out for his morning walk having first
assured me that she would be back before 10.00am, a little earlier than my
usual emergence from the bed’s hold over me. The reason for this assurance was
the impending arrival of workmen at 10.00hrs to start work on re-vamping our
downstairs loo.
I drifted
back into the realm of sleep only to be startled back to the awoken world, by a
stridently ringing doorbell, at around 09.30hrs; I hastily crawled out of bed,
donned dressing gown, stumbled down the stairs and swayed giddily as I opened
the front door. The workmen had arrived early, much to my beloved’s surprise,
when she arrived back at 09.53, and very much to my weary annoyance. I returned
very briefly to the duvet realm, before arising to a host of painful ailments
affecting head, torso, upper and lower limbs. My mood, most definitely, was not
of a very beneficial nature as I contemplated the prospect of minor additional
exertion required to ascend, and subsequently descend, the staircase each time
I required the loo during the next few days. Spastic colon and erratic bladder
function conspire to ensure that the additional effort will be required on multiple
occasions per diem.
As the stress of the situation took hold,
simple misunderstandings rapidly amplified themselves into major crises; it
didn’t take long before I found myself unloading a plenitude of expletives
towards all other occupants, resident and temporary, of my immediate
lebensraum.
