Narcoleptic

Miranda, who is narcoleptic and forgot to take her medication, was out cold for nearly 40 minutes after the plucky little girl called 911.

A tour guide, who claimed to have been a former Israeli colonel, whisked us about while he discoursed on chickpeas, the Six-Day War and, for the Christians among us, Jesus' difficult end. But the trip was pleasant in a narcoleptic, summery kind of way.

The loneliness of this new life, he said, is mitigated by Jacques, who spent most of the interview beached in a narcoleptic reverie at my feet, snoring and farting.

The debate started at 11.30am, nudging out of port with a characteristically narcoleptic speech from Lord Campbell of Alloway (Con).