Not much time to post tonight, as I spent my non-working hours at a BBC Writers’ Workshop (I know), but I have to note – before it slips my mind – that I was far from the only person there scribbling in a Moleskine notebook.

I’ve written before about how I like to use a slightly swanky notebook and pen when I’m writing – sympathetic magic, perhaps – and it was interesting to see how I’m not alone in this.

Whether this kind of faith in (or reliance on) little trinkets of writer-ness is in any way justified, I wouldn’t want to say, but it’s pretty clear that I’m not the only person to have splashed out a bit of cash on stationery in the hope that maybe it can’t hurt…