Ooh, comfy

I'm a dreadful fidget - keeping still for too long just doesn't seem to agree with me. Remaining motionless just isn't a comfortable experience. Like so many other of our ingrained personality traits, it's easy to remain unaware of until someone points it out to you. For me, that happened at a night out at the theatre with several friends from work. At the end of night I was told that sitting next to me akin to residing next the average 4 year child, such was my fidgeting. I was slightly embarrassed at the time, but the comments rang true regardless.

Even whilst trying to sleep, I'm in near constant motion. A turn here, a toss there, it all adds up. It's one of the reasons why I chose a futon as my mattress. For many years now I've been assailed with the wobbles as a consequence of lying on spring mattresses. They sound wonderful in theory - after all, how could all those springs fail to be anything other than comfortable? But, what the literature doesn't say is that that the slightest motion will result in an undulating wave, spreading throughout the mattress. In short, I turn myself over and then bounce up and down for a while. Again, it sounds great in the theory, but in practice it's less than ideal as you're trying to while yourself off to sleep.

But a futon - ah, that's a different case altogether. No springs here. , I can twist and shift as much as I like with nary a side effect. It's absolutely wonderful.

I like my flat.