This is the sort of question I'd ask in a bar if we were having a beer, so be warned - if you don't like the question - don't ask to meet for a beer (actually nobody ever has in over 15 years of going to Thailand) but I digress.

I moved into a new flat in the same block (so no great hardship) when my mother went into a nursing home 2 years ago (she died in January at 95, so not hugely sad). Everyone talks to themselves, it's usually silent, in their heads. But I'm sure there are a few of us who live alone - and that's who the question is directed to. I certainly comment on shit I see on TV, or join in with music I'm listening to.

So, I'm not talking about that internal monologue that everyone has going on (don't they?) but those of us who live alone and actually speak those thoughts, however mundane - now, where did I leave my glasses?