The really odd thing about the past couple of years is that I am having political dreams.

My wife is an expert on interpreting dreams………she has several books on the meaning of dreams. Admittedly she has not actually read any of them. But tellinga dream to my wife is a depressing experience………..because seemingly dreaming of anything at all is “oh thats very bad”.

But last nights dream was a bit weird. I was invited to a SDLP Conference in an hotel……of which Id never heard………..in a place I didnt know. I looked this place up on the internet and there was five villages with the same name. I phoned SDLP Headquarters and they told me that the hotel was just outside Warrenpoint in County Down.

Obviously I cannot discuss anything I heard at a SDLP Conference…..even if it was just a dream. But I can tell you that the Chair of SDLP was Kenneth Kendall, the ex-BBC Newsreader from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

I am not sure how I can explain the dream. But I did have a cheese toastie before I went to bed.