Sleep well?

I never thought it would happen, but it did. Last night, I hardly slept - for two reasons!

The first was toothache.

I had had difficulty concentrating during the day and in the early evening, had to take some paracetamol to combat the ache. It was when I was eating a packet of crisps that I broke part of an old, dead tooth and this only made the pain worse.

I went for a short walk and in the park area at the end of my street, there is a war-memorial with a statue of an angel.

That was the second reason.

During the night, I lay awake as the dull thud of my toothache hammered its way further into my brain. Eventually, I got out of bed and looked for some tweezers. The only set I could find were old and rusty but they served well. Shining a torch into the bathroom mirror, I manoeuvred the tweezers onto my broken tooth and after 20 minutes or so of prodding & twisting, finally pulled out the broken part of my tooth.

The pain died down and disappeared after a few minutes so I made a cup of tea before going back to bed.

Then I still could not sleep. The statue of the angel played in my mind, lurching around the house and creeping closer and closer...

All I can say is that last night, I had Doctor-Who-induced nightmare. Thank you to the Doctor Who team for that, especially Steven Moffat (writer) for his fantastic imagination.