The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

nursemaggie

The answer to that is. Some books are a slow amble through the story and others are very fast paced. Stick to the former for bedtimes and keep the fast paced ones for long journeys and and long waits in hospitals.

monnagran

karcher wrote: »

That'll be me then

Thanks grandma247. I hadn't thought of it no. I used to write a lot but haven't recently. I could give it a try. Reading used to help too (a book as opposed to the internet) but I often found I couldn't put it down and kept reading one more page, one more chapter etc and still be reading at 5am :eek::rotfl:

That's the reason I gave up reading in bed. Once I'd got started there was no stopping me until I'd finished the book and dawn was breaking. These days I nearly always wake up once in the night and have found that a cryptic crossword or sudoku is the best thing to get me yawning again.

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mardatha

I just read the last page first and that sorts that out

Floss

I've been trying to stop looking at my phone after 9pm, and also not watching TV in the evenings, I find that helps along with listening to music or the radio. When DH's away I often put the radio on very low when I can't sleep, the gentle sound is relaxing. If I wake up, I tend to try & think about everything i want to do on the allotment and decorating plans for our home

Softstuff

I find i sleep better and think less when exhausted. A good round of digging or sawing, a bit of DIY or a walk round a shopping Centre (which is somehow for me equally exhausting,).

If I do ever get insomnia it tends to be cause by over thinking things, a problem which I've yet to find a decent solution to. Heck I suffer from that in the day also.

silvasava

I have the radio on low too otherwise my mind just churns and I can't get to sleep. It acts as 'wnite noise' The other thing that helps are CD's of waves or something that you find soothing.

Floss

silvasava wrote: »

I have the radio on low too otherwise my mind just churns and I can't get to sleep. It acts as 'wnite noise' The other thing that helps are CD's of waves or something that you find soothing.

DH listens to Pink Floyd's "Echoes" when he's away from home with work so he can sleep. Softstuff is right too, physical tiredness helps too!

nursemaggie

Yes Echoes works for me too Softstuff. It's a very relaxing album.

A day round a shopping centres bu99ers me for three days. The worse is The Christie Hospital plus three hours round the charity shops near by and then I end up carrying all my shopping through the town centre and round the Ar*dale Centre down to the station and I am done for a days. Someone will usually carry my shopping out of the station at Bolton and I grab a taxi home. I can't face the long walk up the hill the other end if I catch the bus. Anyway the are only running every hour by the time I get home.

I can guarantee I will sleep for 10 to 12 hours after that. That is why I make a dinner the day before that just needs warming up, so I don't have to cook when I get home.

Got a scan on Friday so I have a curry in the freezer all ready. If I go shopping I will have to do that before the scan as it is not till nearly 4pm. Will not have to buy anything big. Don't want to turn up at the CT department looking like a bag lady. I have turned up at the clinic with 4 plants and a big bag of knitting yarn.

Jazee

I'm another one who has the radio on really low when trying to get to sleep to drown out the tinnitus noises. I like to get 8 hours a night, although was wide awake at 4.45 this morning, overthinking things I can do nothing about.

ivyleaf

I used to play a Melanie album on the cassette player to go to sleep by <reminisces fondly> This was in the early Seventies, mind you!

How's your ankle Jazee?

Quiet on here atm. Is everyone hunkering down in (or ready for) the bad weather?