– Blogging
– Coffee
– Books
– More books
– Staring into space
– Researching obscure historical details
– Lunch
– Corinne Bailey Rae
– Email
– Deciding which book to write today
– Deciding everything I’ve written this morning is crap
– Deciding everything I’ve written this morning is so brilliant I may as well stop and have a coffee to celebrate
– Web surfing
– Chooks
– The Secrets of World War 2 on the History Channel
– Gallipoli on the History Channel
– Poring over the History Channel programme
– Dishwashing (but only in emergencies)
– Trying not to eat chocolate

This morning I have had the blinding realisation that it might be better to actually write something, instead of getting so carried away with complicated research matters that I forget where I started and where I meant to be.
And so I am. This is my lunch break. Honest.