This was the event that made the snorebond snoring clinic in Bodmin sit up and take notice. Luis Fairman the technical director of snorebond.com relates the odd incident.

Homemade anti-snoring device!'Yes, snoring was Peter’s problem and we solved it in our usual way but it was his own homemade machine that made us laugh and believe me we thought we had seen it all in the past 30 years! Peter had somehow come to the conclusion that a midnight smoke would be a good way to cure snoring and had invented a machine that would light a cigarette in his sleep automatically for him'.

Peter's long suffering wife Susan takes up the story;

'He is always coming up with these stupid inventions, I thought that when he nearly strangled the cat with his automatic cat flap it was bad enough, but this took the biscuit. I was sleeping peacefully when an enormous snore woke me like a shot and not only was I confronted with the noise of an express train, but a smoking duvet! Luckily I had a jug of water next to my bed and tipped it over him but even that didn’t wake him!'

Luis from snorebond says that Peter’s invention is now in their museum of snoring artefacts in Bodmin.

'There is not a lot new in anti snoring devices' says Luis. 'We have now developed a new device that is as small and as light as possible and combined with clinically proven techniques which you can view on our website snorebond.com, you should be able to cure your snoring problem without having to resort to something as extreme as this. We have heard quite a few stories over the past 30 years but this has been by far the best!'