I have never before had trouble falling asleep at night after a hard day of working, housekeeping, cooking, and if time allowed and my nails were not recently done (by myself), a bout of gardening at the end of the day…
I would simply prepare for a night’s rest by filling my bowl with cheese curls as a snack, getting into bed, giving the duvet a few kicks to adjust it, saying a quick prayer in thankfulness (for my bed), kissing the old man goodnight, taking up my reading glasses and reading myself to sleep – a nightly ritual that suited me just fine, and kept me in dreamland until the next morning.
But lately, I have turned into an insomniac, waking up (normally during load-shedding) at 3am. At first,…
