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Don't be surprised if you bump into a naked sleepwalker.

A surge in naked sleepwalking among guests has led one of the country's largest budget hotel groups to re-train staff to handle late-night nudity.

Travelodge, which runs more than 300 business hotels in Britain, says sleepwalking rose seven-fold in the past year, and 95 percent of the somnambulants are scantily clad men.

"We have seen an increased number of cases over the years so it is important that our staff know how to help sleepwalking when it arises," Leigh McCarron, the chain's sleep director, said in a statement.

One tip in the company's newly released "sleepwalkers guide" tells staff to keep towels handy at the front desk in case a customer's dignity needs preserving.

Two of our neighbors have, I believe, very large Eastern White Pines growing in their back yards, each at the border of where their property meets ours. As any east coast homeowner might tell you, this is the time of year to grumble about these trees if they're at maturity, because they drop a LOT of needles, and if you don't get the needles cleaned up, they will create a cover that will kill your grass.

Which is what I'll be working to avoid this afternoon.

We're very slow to television shows anymore. We didn't discover "Scrubs" until this summer, and of course it is both funny as anything and now in its last season. Thank goodness for syndication.

If this would be a good shirt idea from the National Asparagus Council?

Because those pet names are not popular today.

I see where Mamie Van Doren is getting into the wine biz. Boutique wine business, I guess it is. I'd buy a bottle if I could afford it, but I'm sure there are plenty of folks that are used to paying that amount for wine. Good luck, Mamie!

(btw, there are lots of songs out there with the word "wine" in the title...)