will, for example, be staring at my to-do list, notice that I have a thing I need to do very urgently in the next ten minutes, decide to do it and then bang – someone speaks to me, or I notice an interesting bit of pattern on the wallpaper, or a helicopter flies overhead, and I forget about it immediately, leaving no trace, no ghost of a thought behind. Before I know it it’s six hours later, I’m hopelessly late with the task yet still blissfully ignorant of my failure as it’s completely vanished from my mind.
