Two sleep......perchance to dream?

 

 

A busy morning, a spot of lunch and two chaps are settled on couches and casting an eye on the box in the corner of the room, allowing the prospect of forty winks or wags to enter the scene.

Out of the corner of my eye, my companion is already ‘off’ and his renowned hooter is twitching, in search of some remembered scent. His front paws are lightly trembling, their rear companions occasionally flick, as the lad pursues the source of his imagined pong.............

‘Oh it’s you guv.’

‘M’mmm?’

‘I was commenting that it was indeed you, growling from your hooter.’

‘Was I? I find that hard to believe.’

The lad, using a rear leg to lever himself up next to me, gives me one of his looks.

‘I have always found it odd that most folk of the two legged variety, will inevitable deny the absolute truth, that they are capable of making sounds as they sleep.’

‘Really?’

‘Certainly guv, certainly.’

‘M’mmm.’

‘On the other hand, folk of the quadruped variety have no difficulty in believing that such events occur during lamps out.’

‘Lamps out?’

‘Yep, it’s what we call the time of sightless sight.’

‘Sightless sight?’

‘Yessuree!’

‘Bing, just where do you pick up such expressions.’

Again, I get a Bing type look.

‘Aged poop, my vocabulary is merely a reflection of the assortment of words that are received by the remarkable earflaps you see before you……and such.’

Just between you and me, I have yet to quite get the hang of when I’m getting a ‘straight’ answer from the lad, and just when he is, as the expression goes, having my proverbial trousers down!  I sometimes get the uneasy feeling that he actually reads my mind at times, and consequently has his replies all ready to fire straight back at me. In short I’ve just received one of his winks and am now, not surprisingly, completely baffled.

I decide it might be a good idea to….move on.

‘So young fellow-me-lad, what were you dreaming of just now?’

‘Interestingly old poop, I have no idea.  It’s funny how our visions when sleeping, can be so vivid, and yet on a waking we can’t recall them in detail….most of the time.’

‘Quite, quite.’

‘Oh so it’s the same for you guv?’

‘Indeed it is.’

‘Well of course I can quite see why you would forget, lets face it, I often find you standing in the middle of the room, on the stairs or in the hall, wondering what it was you were going to do.’

‘Oh I say, that’s a bit harsh.’

‘But true guv, very true - or cut me tongue out and feed it too the sharks if it bain’t be so Captain!’

Note to self. We must make sure we curb the lads ‘piratical’ T.V. viewing!