So here's a question

If I hear weird noises in the house at night, I get out of bed, grab the big metal stick I use to pull the loft ladder down, and go stalking downstairs ready to defend me and the cats. The thing is, there's never been any other person trying to get into the house. There have been other cats, a frog, a fox and the odd bird, but nothing that would need me to take a stick to it.

Am I just completely paranoid, or is this something other people do as well? Tell me, dear flist, are you just as nutty at night?