Family Affairs

I am riding a donkey, it is a bit small for me. There are two other people here. They are riding horses. I want a go on a horse, this person lets me, it’s fun, I’m not scared. We are riding up and down a field.

I have fallen out with my dad. I have sneaked into the house through the back garden. I am sitting on a bed with Kate. My sister is in a tent in the same room, she keeps poking her arm out as she speaks. She says they are all going camping together and that Jason is going too. I don’t think I’ve been invited. They are only going for two days, they have to leave at a particular time or else they won’t have any time there and they’ll have to come straight back (reminds me of the trip to Wales when I fell out with my other sister). My dad arrives home and they all go back downstairs. Brother E comes back and gives me his new telephone number.

I am sitting at a piano. I am having a lesson with a man dressed in a black suit with tails. He opens a complicated piece of music. We play a duet, I don’t really know what I’m doing but fingers seem to and I keep up for a bit, then I lose my place. I ask him to go back to something simpler otherwise my lesson will be a waste of time. He opens up the book right at the beginning and I groan.

I am in a very large shop super market. It is summer. Or it could be IKEA. There is a woman there in a suit bossing me about. I go out into the car park. Kate is there and my sister. She is giving Kate some financial advice. I think this is strange given how bad she is with money. She is saying that if you have costs in the future and you don’t start saving for them now, you won’t be entitled to any help. I say if you haven’t got any money to start saving then it’s not your fault. I walk off. I have a problem with my right leg. It is dead, and I am having to force it to move. I come across some people in the car park. I used to know them. I think Chris is there. One of the women I don’t know. I’m telling her about my leg. She says they had noticed I used to stomp with my right leg. I ask her what she means. Someone behind me says, ’she means stomp!’. Which I don’t think is very nice, I want her to show me, she explains a bit more.