Noisy night

I had to put earplugs in to get to sleep last night! No, it wasn't the neighbours having a raucous party (they are much too nice for such shinanigans), but some work being done on the railway line that is very near my house.

It started about 1 am and I don't know what they were going, but it sounded as though it involved a very slow, noisy train going along the track at 0.000001 mph, accompanied by plenty of banging and crashing.I like to think that they were cleaning the rails and that this morning the train drivers are going along thinking to themselves how shiny they look and how smoothly the trains are running. But I'm sure that is just a little story in my head.

Anyway, after about half an hour, the noise didn't seem to be subsiding so I decided that I would have to put earplugs in to get to sleep. I hadn't actually been to sleep by that point anyway, maybe due to the coffee that I had while at my Japanese class, so I was not best pleased when this noise started up. I hate wearing earplugs but they seemed to do the trick. I was a bit worried that I wouldn't wake up for the alarm but in the end I took them out long before the morning so business as usual here this morning. I think I shall be very tired today though :(