Hurrah!!
I made it safely across London (twice)made it to the funeral - didn't have any rows with my family and caught up with some friends while I was there. Phew! I am however glad to be back at SketchWeasel Towers .... What a mad 57 hour trip to Kent and back!
I stopped by the Big Blue House on Friday night to say hello to Deadheaduk and his family - they seem to have multiplied ... suddenly the house was full of children I don't remember them having .. utter chaos ... but Sarah kept her head and all seemed calm and organised ...
They filled me in on the latest murder in Chatham - which happened just outside the youngest girl's school. (See DeadheadUK's blog for the linky thing)
We used to live just round the corner from Sarah and her girls and one of the many reasons we left Chatham was the increasing violence.
I really did not want to bring my daughter up in that atmosphere. When she was at infants school some of the homework she brought back was to draw a map of her walk to school. She asked Mr SketchWeasel if she had to do it, because she didn't want to draw burnt out cars, a burnt down pub and needles and syringes - she was 5!!
I made many lasting friendships whilst I lived in Chatham, but I also made many enemies, mainly because I didn't want to be there or to fit into the crowds of mindless chavs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav
I worked it out last night that since last Tuesday I had only had 2.5 hours sleep - that's not good ....
Wednesday - no sleep due to worrying about travelling to Kent.
Thursday - No sleep - due to sleeping in my daughter's extremely small bed at my parents house and bloody noisy traffic.
Friday - stayed at a friends - crashed on their futon and spent the night watching traffic going over the Medway bridges all night. Slightly pissed and most wide awake!
Saturday - arrive back at Stourbridge - wired and completely wide awake, feeling like shit but unable to come down. Not good!!
Saturday night - want to sleep .... want to sleep .... NOT A BLOODY CAT IN HELLS CHANCE ... Everyone wants to talk to me ...
AAARGH!
Sleeeeeep .......
It's now Sunday and my sleep average has increased - I've now had 7.5 hours sleep since Tuesday ... OMG! When am I going to sleep?
Insomnia = hell on toast.
Sleep ....
