Not sure if you know this song. (Don't fear the click-through; it's not the Wiggles). Anyway, there's a bit half-way through when Mr Pip puts the stun gun to the temple of many of music's sacred cows with the phrase 'Just a band.'

These words came to mind at about 2:30 this morning as i lay, with a dressing-gown for a blanket, next to Olivia's bed. Only i'd changed the words to 'Just a phase.' It was my way of convincing myself that Olivia's latest bed-time (and at random points during the night if she wakes) foible is to demand - on fear of catastrophic caterwauling - that we 'stay with me'. Hence me kipping on the floor last night.

And to help me drift to sleep I reeled off a litany in homage to Scroobius Pip. Shadow-boxing the wardrobe. Just a phase. Moses basket by the bed. Just a phase. In the kitchen warming milk at 3 in the morning. Just a phase. Sleeping with a dummy. Just a phase. Making us stay in the room until she's asleep. Just a phase.

After about twenty minutes i sensed that Olivia was sound enough asleep for me to creep back to bed. Sound enough asleep unril i stepped on the floorboard that creaks and heard, 'Where you going Daddy? Lie down'. Seething i vowed to get a luminous marker and draw a route from bed-side to door that safely avoids any creaks.

Twenty minutes later i made a creak-free journey across the room. Just turn the landing light off...'Daddy! Lie down!'

Anyway know where you can get mufflers for light switches?