My mother-in-law and brother-in-law AG had spend the night side-by-side in single beds in my old bedroom in Birmingham. I asked them how they had slept. All had been fine, but they suggested that we redecorate the room.

It actually wasn’t that long since the bedroom had last been decorated, but we agreed that the finish was not up to scratch. We decided to call the decorator to fix the coving, and to sort out the plastic noise reduction structure just beneath the picture rail.