blow-up bed

For the previous eight months, I had been living on a blow-up bed in a box room in the home of my enormously generous friends and their baby son.

Kelly - not her real name - sleeps on a blow-up bed in the front room of the two-bedroom Brighton flat she shares with her three children, aged from two to 11.

Then, noisy Nick cedes to nice Nick, embracing his audience-member stooge on a blow-up bed, singing sweetly about childhood innocence that's gone for good.