Sleep TIGHT

I never knew that 40-something-year-old women snore until I went on a tramping trip with seven girlfriends. After the lights went out in the DOC hut, five of my seven friends began snoring. I reached for my ear plugs to block out the cacophony of sounds coming from the mattresses lined up in the hut.

As a child, I heard my grandmother snore from her bedroom down the hallway when I stayed in her small flat. Once my mother hit her 60s, she too started to occasionally snore. However, I ignorantly believed that snorers were most commonly like my father: overweight, elderly men.

It’s a stereotype that makes Frances Anderson nod. Frances is a petite woman who spent much of her life snoring. The Hamilton-based entrepeneur didn’t know she snored until she was 13 and at boarding school. She groans, recalling the shame of being moved to a bed down