I’ve been sleeping on the sofa in the living room for the last couple of months so I don’t have to go up and down stairs on my own at night. In some ways I find it easier to sleep on the sofa because it gives me less space to wriggle about on.

There’d been no problems with this arrangement, until last night when I woke up abruptly at least five times as a result of throwing myself off it.

On a positive note I managed to get back to sleep again, more easily than usual, after each interruption.