Ben and I thought we’d like to share the noises of Parliament Square at night with you, our beloved supporters.
The first night we were here, our sleep was very disturbed. I kept wondering whether a car would veer off the road and run into the tents and kill us. That has never happened, fortunately. After a couple of nights, we got used to the constant noise of the traffic plus Big Ben ringing out every 15 minutes! Only revving motorbikes, car horns and sirens wake us up now.
We have been going to bed at 10pm most evenings, sometimes at 9pm because we are so tired, probably from all the talking and planning and also from being outside all day. We wake up at 7.45am in time to get dressed to pray at 8am each morning, but even though we get over 9 hours sleep, I want to go back to sleep when I wake up! It never seems enough.
Anyway, enjoy this video of night-time at Parliament Square:
Night At Parliament Square from Asylum Stories on Vimeo.
It’s even better in High Definition!
10:58 pm on October 9th, 2008
You poor things! I didn’t realise you were quite so close to the traffic!