I've had a couple of wakeful nights; I don't think there's any particular reason. They just come along from time to time. It doesn't bother me, especially now I've retired from schoolteachingand don'thaveto summon up the energy to lead samba bands, cart loads of equipment around and keep teach up to 40 children at a time. Now I just listen to audiobooks or the radio through my cosy phones and drift in and out of sleep...
Radio 4 World service, provided they are covering something that I find fairly tedious - politics or cricket comes to mind - is best... my current audiobooks are too interesting!
It's much easier to manage the headphones now I have wireless ones. I used to get into a real tangle when they had to be plugged in with a length of wire!
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The news has been full of the pope's funeral. I feel for my Roman Catholic friends who will be grieving for the loss of someone they genuinely loved, on much the same level as when the Queen died.
(I won't mention Trump's rather bright blue uit, sticking out like a beacon among the other world leaders... After he made such a meal of Zelensky and the subject of dressing respectfully too)
(Oh, did I just mention Trump's suit? Sorry, it slipped out by accident)
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Music
The slow movement of Bach's Italian Concerto.
Grandson is in Reception Class at a Catholic School. The following conversation happened one afternoon this week
ReplyDeleteMummy, there was a man at my school who was 88 and he died
The Pope?
Yeah, that guy.
Apparently some older children from his school were interviewed about it on Newsround.
Goodness, grandson might have been on TV!
DeleteI too have to find something boring to listen to if I cannot sleep, good Audible books are fatal, I stay awake engrossed. Lovely music again thank you. Regards Sue h
ReplyDeleteHave you found 'the Boring talks' or similarly named, can't quite remember, podcasts on bbcsounds? They work brilliantly well for me!
ReplyDeleteThe right sort of boring material works wonders when delivered in a pleasant voice.
ReplyDeleteThat must explain part of why I slept through so many maths lectures at university...
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