I used Rod Stewart’s cure for insomnia — it worked
I’ve always been lively minded and it’s never been easy to sleep through the night, but it got worse in my late forties and early fifties. It was perhaps linked to the menopause, but also through going over in my mind the many responsibilities I had as a head teacher.
The worst thing is when you wake up and think: “I’ve got to get back to sleep because I’ve got to get up in two to three hours.” A few years ago I heard Rod Stewart describe how he often wasn’t able to sleep in the middle of the night and he would, in his mind’s eye, go through each of his rooms and look