pattering in the dark

 In the night, all is dark outside, the steady pattering noise of the rain on the surrounding roofs end s sleep. There is an occasional bumping noise too, it is hard to identify what this may be. After a period of listening to these sounds, both the pattering and the bumping, feel that is is time to react to Nature#s demands and to go downstairs to the toilet. It is all dark, it being night. There is no need to switch on lights, this might disturb the neighbours. It is more pleasant on the eyes to leave the glaring hallway lights off.

Upstairs again remove the mobile 'phone from the jacket where it had been left the night before and connect it with the charger's cable. The device makes a pinging noise and shows the time, which is four in the morning. Read the news for a bit, wonder at the human talent for self harm. That man in the American elections tells his voters how he is going to injure many of  them when he is in power and still they vote for him.Maybe they think that they will be treated as an exception because of the way they voted forgetting that the ballot is a secret.

Back to sleep, the sound of the rain has turned into a background noise. 

Awaken in the light of morning, and make breakfast downstairs in the kitchen. The kitchen is acceptably tidy today.

At breakfast, upstairs again, see that two people have breakfast, and that the horrors in the Middle East have not abated.

And the situation in the Ukraine shows no sign of improvement.

Finish breakfast and start to work on the rest of the day.