I'm never going up in one of those - ever

Now this is a bit weird.

Especially if you believe in soothsayers.

Thursday night at the famous southstander.com curry neet I had arranged to meet everyone in a pub close to the restaurant, but as soon as I walked in the pub I was dragged to one side by Carolyn, that well known soothsayer of the group, to be informed that she had dreamt of me the previous night.

I threw up my hands in horror and told her that I didn't want to know about her sordid fantasies and that dreams rarely come true you know, but she insisted that just for a change it wasn't one of her "normal" dreams about various and assorted male friends and TV stars, but one in which I was involved a light aircraft crash with her.

Apparently we were trapped in the wreckage of the crash on the edge of a cliff, with her on the side that was dangling over the cliff and my substantial weight on the opposite side being the only thing that was preventing the whole thing from toppling over the edge - she was shouting at me to stay still and not move.

So, and in her words, I ever-so heroically managed to manouvre myself into a position by the door where I could jump clear, and then very slowly reached over towards her...

...where I grabbed my hand luggage from under her seat and leapt clear from the wreckage.

I agreed with her that it sounded like the sort of thing I would do in real life and we had a good laugh about it - weird, but you should hear about some of her other dreams...

So,

We made our way over the road to the restaurant where the rest of the crowd was waiting for us and the first thing that happened when I walked in the door was that Paul, the owner of the excellent southstander .com, grabbed me and told me that he had something awful to tell me.

He had been talking to his brother on the phone that night and explained that we were having my birthday curry neet when his brother gasped and told Paul that he had dreamt about me the previous night - in his dream I had been involved in a light aircraft crash but in his dream I had died, but he reassured me that everyone at the airport was really upset at the news of my demise - which was nice.

So, plane crash dreams.

According to the dream moods dictionary being involved in a plane accident can mean the following ...

"....suggests that you have set overly high and unrealistic goals for yourself. Your goals may be too high and are impossible to realize. You are in danger of having it come crashing down. Alternatively, your lack of confidence, self-defeating attitude and self-doubt toward the goals you have set for yourself is represented by the crashing airplane; you do not believe in your ability to attain those goals. Loss of power and uncertainty in achieving your goals are also signified..."

"...your dream seems to describe a positive transformation that has occurred in your waking life. You had previously been suffering from self-doubt or a lack of self-confidence as is suggested by the imagery of the crashing airplane. Since the airplane, managed to ascend and crashed away from you, it signifies that you have turned a bad situation from becoming far more worse."

... to which I can only say "bollocks", it really means, don't ever agree to elope on a light aircraft with one of your friends wife for it will surely end in tears and you will be the villian. Its a metaphor for my life, anytime I have a good idea some bastard will come along to make sure it ends in tears.

Heyho.
Fifty tomorrow.
No-one talking to me in the house yet.
Don't know why but at least they're not nagging me.
Every cloud has a silver lining.

Wonder if Leeds/Bradford airport willl hire me a Cessna ?