I woke in the night with the opening couplet of a poem in my head. To not wake anybody else, I went to the shower room, placed a towelling cover on the the toilet lid for comfort, and sat thinking.
I fetched a pen and notebook and wrote out the poem. I planned to type it the next morning.
I knew from previous experience that typing on a laptop at night could lead to me sitting up all night. Advertisements and news flashes are a distraction. So a simple old-fashioned notebook and pen in the bathroom is a good idea.
The next day I stuck a label on it, labelling it poems in black broad felt tip pen. My next addition will be a piece of elastic or a custom made pen holder. When I am asked what I want for xmas, I shall say pen holders. Buy a dozen, wholesale, at a reduced price. Than I can have one on each of many many notebooks, the diary, the poem notebook, and so on.
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