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.

Dungeons and Dragons

We are in two teams. I don’t know who the other people in my team are. Our team leaders aren’t very nice. I don’t think we have much choice whose team we are in. I see our team leaders, it looks like the opening to a film. It is set in medieval times, they are all men - some are in chain mail, and some are in armour. They have all gathered outside a church. One of the people in charge of the men is ‘The Black Adder’.

I am standing on a platform. There is an American couple, they ask me which platform they need to go to catch a train. I point to the train, luckily it is on the next platform. They start walking towards it, it is turning around, unfortunately there are only two carriages and it leaves before they reach it. They don’t seem too concerned. I hear the woman say ’oh well’.

At one point I am outside, in a suburban setting with a young man, it is sunset, we are on our way to this room I think (could be Andy). At another time I see a Spanish street at sunset.

My team and I are all in one room, I think we are locked in here. There are some bunk beds, they look my old bunk beds. I can see lots of spiders and cobwebs in my bed. I think this is part of a television programme like BB. There are lots of sweets hanging near my bed that you can have if you work out something. The other people in the room are men, they look a bit rough with stubble. I don’t know them. They could be soldiers, reminds me of men who play games like dungeons and dragons.