This is my first blog entry in my new blog and it is about sleeping.  This is likely to be a recurring theme on this blog as

                             1.  I like sleeping a lot

                             2.  I am having trouble sleeping.

So any remedies would be gratefully received.  At the moment I am trying listening to audio books in bed – sometimes this works but often it doesn’t.  I think maybe Harry Potter is just too exciting.  I like listening to it though.  It is Stephen Fry reading it which is really good.  Also, although I don’t think J.K.Rowling writes particularly well the key thing, it seems to me, is that she creates a world I enjoy being in.  That makes me want to listen to or read her books because it would be great to actually be in those books.  So even though her use of language is a bit limited at times, and at others sounds like she’s been looking through a thesaurus for long words, I still like the books.

 But they’re not helping me sleep.  I think the next thing to try is having it on really quietly.  Only then I might be listening so intently that I’m even less likely to fall asleep.

 Goodnight.

• 4 large christmas dinners in 4 days
• blubber
• 4 inches of snow at home
• but we are in birmingham
• very cold
• nice presents
• bad tv
• better books
• jose gonzalez
• jonny greenwood
• other people whose initials are jg?
• open fire
• plans for next year
• new job in one week
• hibernating

The only reason that I look at the internet is to see pictures of jumps, so as a Christmas present for you I want to find the 10 best pictures of jumps that there are. I have got some on my hard disk but if you have any you want to suggest then either put them on the book or email them to ben at scruffian dot com.

If you haven’t seen this yet it’s crazy.