Mum says that as a baby I wouldn't go to sleep so she used to let me stay up until she went to bed - at about midnight!!! Mum's a night owl and I am too, even now. I can be buggered all day but will miraculously then be wide awake at 10pm.

I don't remember sleeping in my parents' bed but I'm sure they would have let me if I wanted to because they let their 8-year-old grandson sleep with them when he visits!

I do remember mum reading me stories while I was in bed until I was old enough to read on my own and then I'd do the usual toddle off to bed without a fuss because I knew I could then stay up till all hours with a torch under the blankets.

So for me going to bed did not mean sleep, it meant reading. And that was a very, very difficult habit to break.