Life as a father of a one year old, as many of you will understand, is a tiring thing. You never get enough sleep and you always sleep lightly so you can keep an ear out for any cries in the night. I have to admit to thinking I am handling this well. Well not today and tiredness caught up to me.

My wife and I get up between 6am and 6:30am during the week to start the days work – getting baby ready for the creche and hopefully missing the morning rush-hour. My wife dropped my off at the local train station at 07:30 and I could the one hour train journey to Dun Laoghaire where my client is based. Around two thirds of the way I must dropped off for a second and I did not wake up until I had missed my intended stop and had carried on for an extra 20 minutes. I remember waking up and being startled at looking out the window to be greeted by unusual and excellent views over Bray head from Dalkey.

To cut a long story short I was an hour late for work.

I must get more sleep.