the dream opened up with a fierce fire in some residential buildings

the fire, image-influenced dream content, was not from a news clip

but from a film the writer watched before going to sleep (life oriented

beings are so easily influenced by disruptive events it's a wonder

there's any happiness at all in the world)

within a second later the scene changed to a conservative cabinet

meeting where the cause of the fire was being discussed

it took a humourous turn when one person started to explain how he

knew from personal experience how difficult it is to clean dustbins

(where the fire began) using cumbersome protective gloves

it then got even funnier...

the cabinet leader, a very attractive version of margaret thatcher, had

been born in an up-market maternity ward in a posh constituency but

it came to light that she had, in fact, been conceived in the working

class town of barnsley

the meeting then became very serious again as a damage-limiting

cover-up story became the main topic of the meeting

the writer was in the process of making up an comically lame excuse

for such a serious breach of etiquette when he woke up