Been listening to Scott Joplin all morning, the cumulative result of a posted link on my wall and a sudden desire to not hear a human voice till noon maybe. I remember this set of picture books I had as a kid about four bears who lived together, one of them was called Ragtime and had a banjo and patchwork trousers. It was a prettily drawn bear in a prettily drawn book, one of those things you keep opening to look at long after you know the story by heart, like Half Magic. Only I can't remember what the books were called now. There was also a tiny square one about a red overalled child befriending a panda with these Chinese-style illustrations, lots of bamboo, and one of folk tales from Rajasthan with ornate looking people and another one of Ukrainian folktales, where did all of these go? I should really go out for a bit. Take a bath take a bus go to Adam's and eat six plates of kebab maybe.