What time do you get up?

Have a shower, kettle on, so can be in time for Jeremy Vine.

After 30+ yrs of being up and on the go at 6.30am I found it very hard to lie in bed later it has taken a good few years to turn over and go back to sleep.
I still wake about 5am for a loo visit and mr.glamma will make me a as he is up and about with the dogs.
After channel surfing for half an hour I go back to sleep for a couple more hours getting up around 9am most mornings.

I usually watch the BBC Breakfast TV programme and then get up (9:15). By then I have had my breakfast and a cup of tea and caught up with emails, FB and GN. Our bedroom is next to the kitchen so it's easy to bring tea and porridge back to bed.

I usually get up around 6ish, breakfast around 7........bedtime is normally 12.30 but I read in bed til 2ish

Feeling a bit grotty today so when DH brought my tea at about 8.15 he said 'stay in bed, have a read'.
But I couldn't; it feels very indulgent to read during the day. However, I am on GN so that's daft, isn't it?

I’m in bed till 11/11.30 most days!
Then potter about doing nothing much all day, then watch television in evening.
Still on iPad most nights by 1.30ish.
Tried many many times to move that back by 3/4 hours, but it never sticks.
Plus up minimum 3 times needing bathroom.
I’m permanently exhausted. ?‍♀️

8.30 ish- later at weekends. I like to wake up about 7-7.30 & listen to Radio 4 for news. I don't buy a paper or watch TV news very often .
Weekends we get up about 9 unless we have had a late night. I used to get up really early to walk dog before I went to work- now I love a lie in. I have a tea making machine by the bed so we can have a cuppa ( which my son thinks is hysterical as he believes I am the only person left who has one of these!)
It is so nice to just please yourself in retirement

I’ve got into some “bad” habits. Staying up far too late and sleeping/reading most of the morning..

We used to enjoy early morning lie-ins, but now my husband has to sleep downstairs. I wake up about 5.30, read papers online, do the quick crossword. Then go down at 7 to give him a pill, share a cuppa, and turn on his radio, then I sneak back up to bed for an hour or so chatting to any family members on Skype, perhaps do a grocery order, play a few games, then finally get up around 8.30.
And then the day starts!

I usually wake up about 7.30 when the neighbour opposite drives off to work. Always need the loo and as that means going downstairs it doesn't seem worth going back to bed so make a cup of tea and sit in the living room on my tablet, working through several games I have with daily challenges (suduko, jigsaws, marjong, solitaire etc) and checking facebook.

I'm usually awake anytime between 3.30 am and 5am but don't get out of bed u til about 7, go down and take tablets with glass of milk then back to bed, listen to radio, browse iPad and catnap until 9 ish.
Any longer and I too feel guilty, even though I'm retired and have no dog to walk.

When I worked I averaged 4 hours a night sleep. Then I developed Rheumatoid Arthritis and switched straight to 12 hours sleep. Then the meds kicked in and controlled the RA to a degree. Now, if I'm in a lot of pain I can still sleep the clock round, but as a rule I average between 6 and 8 hours a night, but often doze once I'm awake, sometimes not getting up until 10 or 11. But I do stay up latish, often not sleeping until about 1.00 am.

I wake up about 6am, sometimes get up then, sometimes 6.30ish. Like to get my breakfast quietly on my own, listening to Classic FM, reading the weekend supplements, they last all week, check my banking, e mails, look at Gransnet. Preferably all before DH gets up 7.30ish.
Cannot imagine staying in bed until 9 o’clock unless I were ill, in fact DH would know something was wrong if I didn’t want to get up. Seems a waste of a day really. But I am definitely a lark, no desire to be out at night or late to bed.
Each to his or her own, when you’re retired, it’s up to you.

It varies. If I’m wide awake I spring out of bed and put the kettle on. If I’m tired I end up sleeping until I’ve had enough. Bliss! No guilty feelings from me, whatever I do.

I try to be up, washed and dressed before ten at the latest and mostly manage it. Today, after a tiring few days, I'm running late - still in my pyjamas I'm afraid. That will be put right shortly.

After working full time for almost 50 years and having to rise by 6 30 latest its a real luxury to rise at 9 a m now I'm retired! In fact it's bliss in this cold winter weather to be tucked up warm in my bedroom while the commuters are travelling out there to work.

Wake up at 6am (years of early mornings) but absolutely love having a cup of tea and reading the paper until eight. Feels like such luxury!

Graygirl
Just noticed that you’ve posted before me.
I too take thyroid tablets by my bed, as my doctor told me
to take them first thing and then leave some time before
taking blood pressure tablets.

I wake up between 5.30 & 6.00, occasionally a little later but never after 7.30, years of farming and nursing have programmed me forever ?
I'm definitely a lark and am in bed by 9pm then read for an hour. I don't sleep well because of my breathlessness and I wish I could catnap- I find it impossible to sleep unless in bed and it's dark outside.

I'd feel guilty staying in bed - completely illogical as I am retired!

It depends on whether I have to go out or not, usually around 8.15. My husband gets up at 7.30 and feeds the cats (they like breakfast to be on time!) then we have a cup of tea in bed and read the paper until around 8.15.

I’m another one who takes Piriton at night to help them sleep.
Hetty58 I’ll look into the Melatonin gummies thanks for
mentioning them??

Like to stay up late last night 12.45 up at 9ish just going to get dressed, like to have coffee and food before getting dressed . Only thing is take thyroid meds keep them beside bed so when I wake for a couple of minutes when neighbours to to work take them

Our alarm is usually set for 10am, earlier if we have something planned that morning. We are retired and we’re night owls (always have been really). We also have dogs, but that is their routine too (night owl dogs)!

I am usually up about 8 am. The dogs get their last walk at 9 or slightly later so really need out by 9 am. I don't like dark mornings but at this time of year in the north of Scotland it is still not very light at 8 am.

I dont feel so bad now but surprised how many of you wake early.I thought 8 was early!