Bogies are not really a working alternative to counting sheep in bed.
I can hear the local railway line and it occurred that if I added up the number of gedunkadunk-gedunkadunks as a train crosses a set of points and divided by the number of bogies per carriage it would tell me how long the train was.
The down side is you have to hop 
out of bed a bit sharpish to check your calculations.
I am often snuggled under the duvet when a writing idea strikes. If it’s one idea I stay snuggled and promise to remember it. But ideas are like buses, nothing for ages, then they all turn up in a line. You get one, then several and suddenly it’s rush hour.
Thank heaven for the Nexus 7.
It is said that the internet is strangling face-to-face communication but I spend much more time chatting to neighbours now we’re always taking in each other’s Amazon parcels.
Small world. This year’s Brighton Festival will include a crime festival – Dark & Stormy. Brilliant idea. And the storm on their Twitter page – @DarkStormyFest – is the same as the cover of my first Danny Lancaster crime thriller The Wreck Of The Margherita.
So lightning does strike twice…
And if you’re fed up with the weather, Sunday is Groundhog Day. Let hope Punxsutawney Phil’s had enough of rain.
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Remembering Barbara