Things that go bump in the night, has bought some amusement in our household in the past, with dreams, sleep-walking or even sleep-fighting, or even going to the loo.

Once when my Grandmother had come to stay at my parents house. She had a job to find her way around, especially at night because her eyesight wasn’t very good.

In the early hours of the morning my father awoke, when his legs felt as though they had a large weight on them, and he could not move, but when he looked up he saw his mother (my grandmother) sat on the bed on his legs.

“Mother! what are you doing here?” he yelled with surprise.

She turned and looked at him and looking shocked, said “what are you doing here? go back to your room and you can have the bathroom after me”. Luckily he managed to wake her up before she went about her business and showed her the correct way to the bathroom, then to bed afterwards.