It's bedtime.

It's already past your bedtime.

I don t believe in bedtime stories, contrived arguments linking economic growth with democracy.

And one of them made reference to a series of books called The One Minute Bedtime Story.

Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, Bedtime Stories .

Nevertheless, the markets evidently regard this as a comforting bedtime story all the more so now that European leaders have averred that Greece will not be pushed out of the eurozone.

And I now find that bedtime stories used to be a box on my to do list, something that I dreaded, because it was so slow and I had to get through it quickly.

I could imagine grandmothers being able to do social plays with their granddaughters, with their friends, and to be able to share all kinds of other activities around the house, like sharing a bedtime story.

And my wake up call came when I started reading bedtime stories to my son, and I found that at the end of day, I would go into his room and I just couldn't slow down you know, I'd be speed reading The Cat In The Hat.

And for me, I guess, the litmus test for whether this would work, and what it would mean, was always going to be bedtime stories, because that's sort of where the journey began. And there too the news is rosy. You know, at the end of the day, I go into my son's room.