Sometimes, when I sit down to write the Pullyman column, I have a subject in mind.

But on other occasions, the mind just goes blank.

Do you know the feeling when, at 3am you wake up and and the answer is obvious.

It could be the breakthrough to a cure for some terrible disease, the formula for World peace, or it could be a new recipe for pigs head brawn.

What ever it was, at 3am it made absolute sense and was crystal clear. They are what I would call a ’why didn’t I think of that before’ moment.

By 10 o’clock in the morning when I sit at the desk to start writing, I can just about remember what I had for breakfast 10 minutes ago.

What chance do I have of remembering a dream that I had seven hours ago?

Just to digress, it was actually a rather good breakfast.

I never have what could be called a bad breakfast. It’s just that some score more than others on the ’breakfastometer’.

Today’s example was fried egg, bacon, and mushrooms.

What made the difference today, was some fried, sweet, cherry tomatoes, with thick cut soft white bread and spread with a good slathering of goats milk butter. Bliss.

I look forward to every meal, but after my regular forty minute exercises, breakfast is special and, wherever possible, Manx made.

Gelling’s eggs, Andreas Meat Company dry cured bacon and sausages from Steve in Village Meats in Onchan.

Bread from Ramsey Bakery or Noa Bakehouse thick sliced sour dough.

Heaven on a plate.

Anyway, this rambling on about food is all well and good, but it isn’t solving any world problems and, believe me, there sure are enough of them going around.

Every time you listen to the news or open the papers, all you get is world-wide trouble.

Take for example, Russia. President Putin is always stirring things up in the Ukraine, Crimea, and anywhere else in the world he can think of.

The USA, the land of opportunity that seems to painfully drag itself from problem to problem, is led by President Trump, the master of diplomacy who still can’t believe that he was actually elected to do the job.

To give an example of his wisdom, let me remind you of his reaction to a public call for better gun control in the wake of a recent mass shooting at a college.

He said that in his opinion, the answer was not to ban the carrying of guns, but to employ more armed guards.

Day by day, the UK seems to be digging a bigger hole for itself with the Brexit negotiations.

Jobs in industry and finance are are being lost forever. Exports will earn less, and imports will cost more.

The UK is falling apart. Northern Ireland has more political parties than it has people. Scotland wants to be an independent country and Wales wants something else.

Problem after problem.

What we need is a good conspiracy theory to take people’s minds off things. So how about this for an idea?

Do you remember when Princess Diana lost her life in that car crash in Paris, and all the various crackpot theories about what really happened were doing the rounds on social media?

And that other one about the first Moon landing being faked in a disused barn in some remote desert?

Well I was told by someone who knows this bloke who drinks in this pub that is just round the corner from Sandringham police station. He said that he had overheard a conversation between two men who were sitting at the next table.

He is absolutely certain that they were talking about a car crash that was going to be faked by Special Branch stunt drivers on the orders of Prime Minister May.

The idea was to do something to take the public’s attention away from Brexit. It’s true, it was on Twitter.

A decade ago Pullyman - aka Michael Cowin - was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, a condition that affects people in different ways. Michael discovered writing and Island Life is featuring some of his musings. Sometimes topical, sometimes nostalgic, read about life as seen through the eyes of Pullyman.