What I really wanted to call Bees in my Bonnet was A book for Bedtime but it seemed too close to the BBC's programme title A Book at Bedtime, which I've enjoyed from time to time. More recently, I've been going to bed an hour before that comes on the air but I can recommend it to anyone as a first step to getting a good night's sleep. Not that the books will put you to sleep, far from it, but it's easier to get over if you follow a routine, and especially if you have something that takes your mind off the day's stress - most important these days when human contact has been put on hold.

The thing I find most disturbing is getting between the sheets and finding a half baked plot running round in my head. Alternative's to what comes next, start to flicker on and off and, in the end, I'm forced to get up, make tea and try one of those number things the cunning people from the East have introduced us to, the ones where the total of the numbers has to add to something. If I keep at ne for a month or more, I can get it wrong.

Anyway, the new Drover story, a romance about cowboy in the Highlands, is going well and should join Bubbles in the Cauldron in a month or so. Mind you, knowing what has happened in the past, that could be two months. The image is a design idea for the cover 

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