The Shipping Forecast

If you've never heard the shipping forecast as delivered on BBC Radio 4, then I suggest you go here and listen to one. The sound of the shipping forecast on the radio at 12:45 in the morning is generally what lulls me to sleep when I've been tossing and turning for a few hours. Most people smile and nod when I say this. I'm sure there are technical terms to describe the lyrical but nonsensical string of sounds and why this is so soothing, but I don't have to. Anyone who has heard it, gets it.

And today? When I suddenly got up the nerve to send my new intrigue a message to let him know I was thinking about him and that I liked the direction things were going in? I got it all wrong. I couldn't articulate anything. But he got it.

As such, I think I'll go with the fanciful pseudonym Odin for him. Odin was a character in Norse mythology credited with discovering the runes which gave him insight (along with a host of other adventures).