Well, 3:03am to be exact. I was awoken from a troubling dream about Douglas Carswell complaining about a pontoon bridge. Scary stuff.
It was our 7-year-old daughter, calling from her room next door. I went through to see what the problem was.
“Well, there are three things actually, Daddy.”
I raised an eyebrow in the near darkness.
“Go on.”
“Firstly, I had a bad dream,”
Well, as you’ll just have read above, I knew all about that. I chose not to ask if Douglas was involved in her nightmares as well. I simply didn’t want to know.
“Oh dear, but it’s gone now you’re awake. What else?”
“I need to go to the loo, and also, I’ve been time-travelling.”
At this point, she indicated her clock, which said 3:03.
“Before, it said 3:37. Now it says 3:03. So I’ve been time-travelling.”
Kids, hey? They’re nuts. But it was the middle of the night and I needed to get back to the House of Commons.
I took her to the loo, and then tucked her back into bed at exactly 2:58am.
Sorted.
Hang on a second…
Where it should say “Dougla”s Carswell, it now says “Duncan”, at the first link. Please feel free to delete this.
Arrrrgh. What’s the name of that law? The one that says: whenever you point out an error, you make another?
For “Dougla”s read “Douglas”.
Brian Micklethwait > Oops. Thank you. Now corrected. And there are a number of different names for that law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law 🙂
Interestingly(?), I had just been talking to the vet when writing this. He is called Duncan. File under “How the mind works”.