Sunday isn't a night to plan. It's the one to end properly.

On your own tonight

• Set a timer for twenty minutes and tidy with music on. Not properly, just the surfaces. Then stop, whatever state it's in.

• Bath or shower. Clean pyjamas. Fresh sheets if you've got them.

• Then two nice thing on a tray. A drink, and something to eat,

• then something to read or watch.

• And an end time, decided now.

That last bit is the trick. A night in with a bedtime feels like a treat. Without one it turns into drifting, and you know the difference.

Together tonight

• Same twenty minutes, one room each, music on for both of you.

• Then the two of you,

• one blanket each, no big light.

• And one question before bed: what's the one thing that would make this week easier for you?

Then actually do something about the answer.Not a conversation about the week. A conversation about one thing.

Sleep well, Night Inners