Apparently it's all part of the ageing process. I always have Rescue Remedy and 3 Coffea pills on my bedside table which seem to help me get back to sleep during the night. I don't share Mr Bridge's liking for sleeping under canvas, and am writing this from a 4 star hotel just outside Malaga in Spain where I have slept like a log since we arrived last Friday.

However a chap has just started strimming the pool grass area with a strimmer which sounds as if it is driven by a Merlin engine, so anyone who cares to sleep on is out of luck!

Incidentally, there are 150 French here who are being entertained by Butlins like redcoats who are constantly on a disco high. I rocked the boat to the amusement of folks not with the French by demanding that the music was turned down - which I am very good at!!