waking

A good nights sleep becomes relative with two small children, but last night I slept until 4am at which point my body thought that I had had enough sleep! It’s strange the things that can wake us here. The children go through phases of good sleep and bad sleep, we have had 4 weeks of not so good sleep probably due to sick bugs, colds and teeth but once a week we all sleep worse after taking anti-malarial tablets. Then there are all sorts of other noises that wake us in the night: the neighbours dogs (in our garden); the call to prayer from the mosque (4.15am); the local nightclub (sometimes until 6am); the neighbour’s cockerel; the dawn chorus; rain hitting the metal roof (louder than you think); the water coming back on. And it’s beginning to hot up again which also hinders sleep.