Complete randomness this morning, after waking up with a song in my head that won’t go away. We watched a film last night and part of the musical soundtrack sounded a little like a couple of bars from a song in Sondheim’s ‘Sweeney Todd’, so guess what? I woke up at 4.45 with the whole song going around and around… Now, those two words will be going around and around in my head to music by Chris De Burgh as they feature in one of his old songs. There’s no escape. Perhaps a walk down the Kali Strata will clear the head…

A head which is currently filling up with information about 19th century dentistry. Don’t ask. It’s also a bit randomised by clues I have left myself. I used to map out my stories but found that too rigid a structure stifled creativity. Now, I often start with a beginning and an end and fill the rest in as I go, so I discover and know as much as my characters as they solve cases. In other words, the mystery is often a surprise for me too. This is currently being proved because I thought I had made and important note, and now I can’t find it, or I didn’t write it down. So, I have given my detectives a clue (which I did note down), but now I can’t find the answer, and as it was an historically correct fact, I need to ensure I get it right. It was to do with a convent school on Fulham Road in the late 1800s, and I am sure it was there but now I can find no reference to it, though there was one on Fulham Palace Road, but the note I made didn’t say the word ‘Palace’ and that one is at the wrong address… Perhaps another walk down the Kali Strata will help clear the mind…

What will help clear it is to get on with some work, which I must go and do before songs and mysteries take over completely. Just to show you how diverse the weather has been of late, the blue skies in the photo were from last week, and this one is from this week.
