It started off at Barnfield Stables where I used to ride as a kid. In the dream I got in one saturday and found out that Amy Winehouse had brought in two new liveries. They were both black and about 15hh. One was totally mental and wouldnt let anyone in it's stable. The other one was pretty highly strung but manageable. I decided I wanted to take this one for a ride across London.
Everyone tried to dissuade me. I ignored them and set off on a slightly sketchy ride accross town. Then, like a cut to the future in the film. I suddenly found myself being led into a prison cell.
It looked alot like rochester prison (the only prison I have been in apart from Alcatraz) and I was sharing a cell with a young lad (possibly someone from primary school) although we did have our own tiny cell bedrooms. I walked into my small cell / bed with a heavy heart. I had been sentenced for 6 months - I knew I hadn't done it and I was pissed off. I walked up to the window in my cell thinking - this is the only thing I am going to see for the next six months - how awful. It was a bundle of barbed wire and a bit of rough land and sky. I looked for a while though and then I realised that the window was actually a bit like a door. I fiddled around with the edge of the bars for a while ane eventually the door opened! I felt myself tense up awaiting an alarm sounding but none did and I walked out into the afternoon sun falling on a thin strip of enclosed land.
My cell had a garden! The strip was very narrow, the same size as my bed, but long. As I walked along I got to near the bottom and on my left a view of a beautiful paddock like the one at the front of Forde Abbey in Dorset opened up. Inside I could see a couple of horses and I breathed a sigh of relief. Six months wouldn't be so bad!
