When people use their own knife for the butter at the table instead of decanting the right amount onto their own plate with the butter knife and then continuing with their own knife. If we're out I have to dig my nails into my own thigh and look away taking deep breaths. If they do it at my house they're never invited back...

Having framed photos up of other people's pets.

New show homes are not dressed with furniture anymore so you don't realise until you move in that the rooms are too small for normal sized bed, tables and chairs and you feel like you're one of the borrowers. Womens dresses for fancy nights out have zips at the back that we can't undo, so we have to bring someone home to undress us... The government hopes that this will keep the dwindling birthrate stable. The kids will think the house and furniture are normal size until they grow up and learn the truth.

I rewrite lyrics to songs to fit the environment. There's a song for every situation, especially if you change the words.

I have to admit that i have note books absolutely everywhere. By my bed for nighttime thoughts (lots of ideas come to me before I go to sleep), there is one in my handbag at all times and others scattered around the house for anywhere that I stop moving and may have a thought to write down. I don't have a set writing time of day, sometimes I schedule it, but sometimes i can't wait so I drop what I'm doing and make notes. Sometimes its 30 seconds, sometimes its an hour. My best notes are made when i give myself an uninterupted, lone visit to a library or coffee shop where I wont be disturbed. For structure its all about spider diagrams and arrows linking call backs.

@Tom Short 100%!! Lost good ideas to sleep so many times!!