Unsure about the onset of another late-night ‘bad habit’

Country Living with Francis Farragher

I’m told by people who know about these things that what I’m at is a very bad habit and immediately I’m inclined to think: “Oh no, not another one,” and it’s one I’ve only developed over recent months. Before bedtime, there should be no drinks including alcohol, tea, coffee or even water, to ensure there’s no waking up at some ungodly hour to relieve what could be described as hydrological pressure.

Maybe a few stretches on the gym mat and some lighting reading before the lights are turned out seems to be recommended by all of those very smart people who tell us how to eat, drink, live and sleep properly.

Anyway, back to my recently developed bad habit, which is now occurring on a lot of nights before I go to sleep. Sometimes the consequences of the late-night stimulation can delay the arrival of closing eyelids, but like most bad habits, I’m finding it increasingly difficulty to kick.

True, it doesn’t happen every night and often it can be as a result of going to bed that bit too early but in these times when a half-late hour cannot be whiled away in the company of friends and some light refreshments, what else is there to do only to embrace the scratcher.

The problem started with a glance at an offer of whiz-kid of a 32” television for under €300 and with very few outlets to spend money on these days, in to the bedroom arrived a ‘Walker’ special with pictures as clear as if the screen characters were there in person.

The first postponement of sleep occurred a couple of Monday nights back when I decided that I’d watch the first five minutes of Dr. Cassidy’s Casebook, fully determined that this would be just a brief foray into the gory world of pathology.

Just in case you don’t know – and that’s very unlikely – the three-part series focused on the life (and death) times of pathologist, Marie Cassidy, the petite and glamourous blonde (oops, am I allowed to say that?) Glaswegian pathologist whose image we saw on our television screens, almost every time a suspicious death occurred in Ireland.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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