Big can hardly have been asleep for more than about an hour, but she’s just appeared in tears. She timed her arrival nicely to go along with some bloke wandering about on our drive, so Tim shot outside to deal with that (he’d lost his tennis ball apparently, hm, and didn’t take overly kindly to two ppl telling him it would have been polite to ring the bell!)
Anyway, turned out the bad dream was caused by the Scooby Doo that they watched inadvertantly earlier – I hadn’t realised but they were watching a film rather than a standard episode, and it is one that diverges from the standard plot of bad guy in good mask, iyswim. This one has zombies, and both children were a little perturbed by it, but by the time I realised I thought they would be better off watching to the end, given that I was fairly sure it would all work out for the best.
Might have been the wrong decision – wonder if Small is going to wake up screaming too?
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A Scooby film gave Charlie nightmares too when he was Big’s age and he still doesn’t like the cartoons. Then again Dr Who gives him nightmares too so he doesn’t watch that. Weirdly, anything real-life no matter how gory/scary (the news etc) doesn’t give him nightmares but anything fiction-wise on the tv nearly always does.
SB hasn’t slept so well so far tonight – atmsopherics no doubt!
So, was the night disturbed further, or was it ok?
Mine was quiet from about midnight – dunno whether either of them managed to disturb Tim, but I’d doubt it!