an old dream from a month back...

Last night I had many dreams all woven into a rich adventure thriller epic... It starts in the murky depths of a game that I'm playing with friends, which I have been playing for years and years.....

We are travelling through woodlands that are familiar. These we have see grow up around us as kids. All is the same as we remember it, but the plants have been changing places with other plants. The game is hide and seek, and we are playing it while we make this long journey from one place to another.

Now I'm with my Grandfathers tools, I've found them and I need to look after them. They will help me in the game. Soon it will be the last level and these tools are essential to completing it. I'm waiting at a cafe for something to happen, something to change... Years and years go by...

Now its the last level... I know because of the strange air in the place, every moment counts. We are practising our climbing; I'm with a bunch of friends from leeds and we are sharing skills before the really hard work comes. These are my friends from cornerstone housing cooperative. They are telling me about a fruit tree planting that they did in a big field and a poly tunnel that they installed at the back of their land in the woodland. They show me the overhead design and we watch a video all about the design. Now they are showing me this new house that they are going to convert into another housing coop house. Its surrounded by woods and is falling down, but it will b worth it once it is done. They say it is near a good music scene, which makes up for the fact that it is in a bad area of leeds, full of crime and drug addicts. We go and visit the fruit trees that have been planted. A burst pipe is flooding the field, and what were once well planted trees, are now struggling to survive. One tree had fallen down altogether, though it was still alive. Daniele picks it up and begins to replant it. We find the drain pipe. I think it may be a channelled spring but then Christopher tells us its just a bust water mains pipe. Don't drink from it! I get too close and nearly get washed away.

Its the last level: I come back to the new house and practice climbing up first. This is part of the game- we need to get good at climbing. Christopher helps me get up the first bit; its not so bad as I though, despite being dangerous without ropes. I thank him for helping me because when one is nervous its allot harder to climb and so more dangerous. Helping me is making it safer.

Ii become aware of my sun tanned limbs gripping the strange shapes of the wall. I sense that time is running out and I need to hurry up. Friends are following me from behind, and up here on the building we are exposed and can be seen. I'm now on a ledge - I've come to a stop and in order to get to the next bit I have to push button to unlock a safe high up in the wall, to get key to make the ledge become wider so we can walk onwards. I know this because I've played this game many times before. I get the key - alarms are sounding! The flying police know we are here on the ledge! We have to hurry.. We can here their sirens getting closer in the distance. we have not got much time. I jump and grab on to a bit of ledge with my hands, I'm almost in the safe bit, but its so hard, pulling myself up. I feel so exposed hanging here......