Ever have one of those nights where you just can’t sleep? And then it becomes morning and you might as well get up and deal with all the things you’ve been thinking about?

     Big day today – going to hear back from a job interview, putting an offer in on a house where my husband and I hope to run a business, and got to sign a contract for a book I’ve been commissioned to do on Whitstable –  all of which have meandered through my mind since 3am only to be joined by ‘I wonder what that agent thought of my book’, did my husband clean my slipper (don’t ask), and what can I make for dinner out of chick peas, a tin of tomatoes and three leftover meringues.

     So before I investigate my slipper or invent tomato and chick pea Eton Mess I have emailed the agent for feedback. Failing that, an offer of representation and a recipe book would be good.