just had a couple days off posdting - catching up on the latest novel (writing, not reading) so been suffering from a lack of sleep - takes me at least 1 1/2 hours to write my 900 words a night - often it is 2 or three hours. Strangelyu it doesn't seem to relax me but actually hypes me so that I can't sleep well - welkl the novel-writing and stress at work, something is disrupting my sleep - twice in the last few nightsa I have been jerked awake by violence in my dream. It makes it really difficult to get back to sleep if you've just been splattered awake by the image of some monster biting out your stomach.in one gulp.. urgggh - shuddering even now as I remember it.
Anyhow - happier things - you may not have noticed that I was gone but hopefuylly you forgot-me-not. That's a little corny I know and it didn't really work as thge link to the flower of the day - the forget-me-not.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forget-me-not Aparantly the genus name (myosotis) is greek for mouse ear because the leaf is said to look like a mouse ear. Not to me it doesn't - although it is a while since I've seen a mouse ear that isn't crushed beneath the bar of a mouse trap. We get a lot of mice in our hgouse over the winter - not least beacause everywoman and their dogs leave the back door wide open half the time. The same people who complain about the house being cold (and it is) will still open every sodding window in the house and leave the door wide open during the day. It's obvious that they aren't payiong the heating bills.
The fresh air is good for you, they say (why is it always women that seem to want to do this - open all the windows - I refer my lord to the previous point about paying the heating bills. Don't get me wrong - I don't mind opening the windows wide once or twice a year to change the air in the rooms but every single day! It's not necessary - ort at least close them again before it starts to get dark.)
Where was I... I forget-me-not. - the one growing in our garden is positively, definitely , probably, possibly, maybe, could be Myosotis arvensis... the field forget me not - most flower in spring but this was spiking up the garden in early September. it is another of those flowers which is often passed over - a powdery blue which is easy to miss unless they are in drifts and reinforce each other - or unless you have a good close look. And i would highly recommend having a close look at this wee beauty - especially when it has the yellow eye in the middle. 
