Suzanne Harrington: What time is too early to go to bed when you're middle-aged?
Answer honestly now – what time is too early to go to bed? You don’t have to be ill, or have a broken leg, or having a duvet day, or a mental health day or whatever human resources are calling it – you’re just going to bed. There’s no hot lover involved either. Just a cup of tea and a dressing gown. What time should your hour of retirement be red-flagged as a pyjama-clad cry for help?
The answer is never. It is never too early to go to bed, provided you aren’t leaving a brace of small children unattended downstairs with nothing but a phone, an online gambling app and a pizza delivery leaflet to see them through. (This could of course be construed as imparting important life skills, although fussier parents may disagree).
