Going to bed becomes a huge production for me. First, put the air conditioner on upstairs while I'm reading, to get the room cooled down - it faces west and despite the lined curtains becomes a furnace. Fall asleep while I'm reading ( under patchwork sheet, pictured) and wake with a start after about 15 minutes (the light is still on). Turn off air conditioner, open door to roof, put fan on low to keep air circulating. Turn off light.
About two hours later wake up when the temperature has dropped and turn the fan off.
Possibly pull doona over me and pull sheety off and throw on the floor. Otherwise wake again in another couple of hours and pull doona on when I feel chilled. By now it is about 5.00 a.m. and hopefully I go back to sleep.
My husband is oblivious to all this, goes along with anything that's happening, can be in the bed, out of it, watching television, asleep, awake. He doesn't care and isn't bothered.
The patchwork sheet, known as sheety, I made when I was a teenager. Over the winter I need to do some serious repair work because some of the hexagons are wearing out completely:
I want to write a little more about sheety and my bits of patchwork tomorrow.
Now I need to make dinner.
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