What time do you get up in the morning?

Merrywidow

Isn't it lovely - as Cattie says, "an indulgent luxury" and guess what folks its FREE !!

pollypenny

Chalky, what's a 'lapacuddlyghan'? I gather it's a variation on a cardigan, but how and what?

gatita

You have all made me feel so much better! I just love lazing in bed until I feel like getting up. I have always felt 'guilty' about getting up late....throw back to my childhood lol Its SO good to hear other people out there are the same as me

jennifernil

I love my bed! I have never been an early riser, but when working OH was always up at 7am or so, I would linger till 7.45.

Now we have the heating coming on at 8.30 am, so no point in venturing out of bed till 9.30 am. Possibly 9 if we have somewhere to go, but normally at least 10 am.

Sometimes I even have to shove OH out of bed at 10.30 am to make breakfast!

Breakfast has now become his responsibility. Lunch is shared. I do dinner, but he peels the potatoes.

Isn't retirement great!

Unity

lilac_lady - thank you so much for this thread :beer:.
My DH always said he would retired by age 50 and he did, at 49 - unfortunately it was partly to care for me , but there you go. He has always been able to sleep for England - if it was a gold medal event, he'd win every time , except that like Biggles he often needs to be up for the stock-market opening, which he does with good grace and the minimum of complaint .

I, on the other hand have a sleep disorder among other health issues, yet I feel so very guilty for not being up at something reasonable like 8 a.m.:o:o:o I am sure it is something to do with childhood and having to travel a fair distance to school - plus a mother who believed you had to be up, with the curtains open and your hearth swept, especially on a Sunday for mass (I mourn the demise of the rolleyes smilie:().

It has made me feel so much better to read that other people are able to stay in bed and that I'm not the only one to feel guilty about it :T.

oldsam

When you started at 5 am most days of your past working life , Setting the alarm for 3.30 am is now fond memory . Well somebody has to remind the birds when to start the dawn singsong ! But now its 7.30am that 's what I a real bliss !!!

pollypenny

It's you to blame, eh, oldsam?

I am woken very early in the Summer, by those blinking birds shouting their little heads off in the trees outside my window. Like having a noisy class, but I can't tell them to line up quietly.

lilac_lady

I have nights when I waken up and can't get back to sleep (like many of us!) but I get up. make tea and read or catch up on recorded tv till I feel sleepy enough to go back to bed. The joy of knowing that I don't HAVE to get up early is fantastic.

I do have a couple of earlier rises due to my volunteer job and babysitting but that just makes the later starts sweeter.

jamespir

i get up at 730 everymorning

KMK

It is truly one of the joys of retirement when the rain (or snow) is pattering on the windows and you can just turn over and go back to sleep. After 38 years of work and earlyish mornings, it still has not lost its savour. Radio 4 gently wakes me most mornings.

I also appreciate a leisurely breakfast, followed by reading the morning paper. My guilty pleasure is watching "Homes under the Hammer".

I sometimes have an afternoon nap, especially on gloomy winter afternoons. I switch on Afternoon Theatre and the next thing I am waking up as it finishes.

Such simple, delicious pleasures cannot be beaten. Retirement is wonderful!!!

(Just been for a bracing walk on the local beach; so I am not completely idle.)