[Michelle just sent this in: these are her exact words. - Lara]

Hi Lara

I've been reading the 0110 diaries and chuckling to myself at the keen imaginations of my new colleagues.  How funny, I thought, that as soon as they start working on this project they all seem to be experiencing these "strange" occurrences.  That's writers for you.  Mad as brushes, the lot of them.

And then.

I recently taped a large piece of paper across my desk to plot out the structure of another project and it's remained there ever since, sitting underneath my laptop, neglected in favour of more pressing deadlines.  Then the other morning, I had a lengthy storylining meeting on Skype - and as we talked I got to doodling on the papered desk.

I'm not trying to be funny, but everything I doodled got mentioned a short while later.  I drew a man holding a massive bunch of helium balloons and someone made a completely unprompted and out of the blue suggestion that involved releasing thousands of balloons.  I doodled a giant black exclamation mark inside quotes and someone brought up a story about a heated argument.  The spider's web prompted a discussion of arachnophobia, the giant drop of water a flooded basement and the teepee a campsite in the Welsh countryside. 

The only thing that never got mentioned was the robotic pig.

It was proper weird. The doodles being mentioned, not the pig.  Though that was pretty weird as well.

I had your gift in my pocket.  Have you cursed us?  Are we now fated to suffer these bizarre goings on? 

Or is my imagination as wired and overactive as the rest of the team?

(P.S. I rang my mum yesterday and instead of ringing it made a sound like someone screaming underwater. Scared the bejezus out of me. That's a true story as well.)

- Michelle Lipton 16th November 2009