Chris Johns

A pair of insomniacs.

And I have a waking period these days between three o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the morning on average.

I think I'm probably hallucinating most of the time because of lack of sleep.

It doesn't seem to be very much that I can do about it.

Alcohol doesn't work.

Lack of alcohol doesn't work.

Not for sleep anyway.

I've talked about my recent bereavement on this pod before, and I'm not going to do so again, not in the short term anyway.

And just because I was awake at four o'clock in the morning on Monday, early Monday morning, for the sake of something to do, I wrote a piece about grief, something I've spoken about on the pod before.

As I said, I thought maybe people might think it was a bit self-indulgent at this stage, but I have been overwhelmed by the fantastic response from a whole rake of people, some of whom I've heard from before.

many of whom I have not.

I've tried to respond to all of the written comments that I've received where I can.

If I've missed anybody out, I'm sorry.

But a big thank you to everybody.

It is one of the most read pieces already on our Substack site, which has been going for nearly six years now, Jim.

And so I didn't expect that.

I began the post by saying this post is not for everybody because normally we write about business, finance, economics, politics, dry statistics, wet statistics.

We write about all sorts of things.

I've never written a post quite like this before.

I sometimes stray off piste and I'm often told to stay in my lane, but what the heck, it's our substack.