The Bedtime Edit
The hour that decides the night.
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The evening starts in the bath, so the edit does too.
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One zip, one garment, no decisions. The whole argument for a footie is that it removes a step from a tired evening.
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For the age when a footie becomes an insult. Two pieces, so they can do it themselves and take twice as long.
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The thing that has to be found before anyone sleeps. Worth choosing carefully, because you are choosing it for years.
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And the spare. Every parent who has lost one at a service station has learned this the hard way.
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Heavy enough to feel like a proper blanket, which is most of what makes a bed feel like a bed.
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The one that stays on the cot and gets photographed. There is no shame in owning a blanket for the look of it.
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A real human shushing sound rather than a synthesised one, which is a smaller difference on paper than it is at 2am.
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Sound and a night light in one object, for the stage when the dark itself becomes the problem.
