If you want a good night’s sleep, apparently all you need to do is paint your bedroom! According to a new survey those with blue painted bedrooms tend to get the best rest – nearly eight hours a night – and wake feeling happy and positive. Green and yellow colours also fare well with those [...]
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A mattress that looks OK, may not actually be OK, that’s the hitch.Latest Blog Posts
Are Parents Failing To Get Their Kids ‘School Ready’?
Today it was announced that the National Association of Head Teachers, with support from the Government, are launching a set of guidelines* for families across Britain following warnings that rising numbers of children aged four upwards are no longer ‘school ready’. Parents will be handed leaflets reminding them to put their kids to bed on [...]

Sleep Myths: Fact or Fiction
If you want to get more sleep, then it’s time to separate the fact from the fiction and bust some of the more common sleep myths. The reality is we are often the biggest culprits of our own sleep deprivation. We find it hard to break bad habits and buy into sleep myths that hinder [...]
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Doubles: The New Singles Club
It’s official! Double beds are the new ‘singles’ among Britain’s solo sleepers. With the news that sales of single beds are down by nine per cent in the past four years while those of doubles are up, The Sleep Council says the Race for Space in bigger beds can only be good news for the [...]
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Feeling Blue…Well It’s Good For Sleep!
May 23, 2013
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Are Parents Failing To Get Their Kids ‘School Ready’?
May 17, 2013
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Sleep Myths: Fact or Fiction
May 8, 2013
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Doubles: The New Singles Club
May 2, 2013
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