Is it too early to put the t.v. on?

Only watch the odd CBeebies during the day. I sit down with a cup of coffee and turn it on for the GC. Trouble is I then find I'm the only one watching The Tweenies and they're all playing out in the garden

Does anyone time their day by what's on TV? DS often asks "Can we have dinner now that Pointless is finished!

CbA to watch during the day. Have to have it on at 6pm for the news.

Our TV goes on at 1.15pm for Home and Away, followed by Neighbours, then it goes off. At 6.30pm I record Eggheads to watch with a cuppa later on. Apart from Eastenders, I hardly watch anything else, there`s rarely anything that I fancy. It annoys me when hubby has the TV on all night in his bedroom, just for the sake of having it on. Things change very slightly at the weekend, then the TV only goes on in the daytime if hubby wants sporting events on.
I don`t feel guilty about reading in the mornings, when I get my breakfast ready, I then get comfy on the settee with my book for at least half an hour, lovely.

Not snobbery on my part I just love the peace and quiet. The TV is on most evenings and over the weekends when OH watches his football.
If I want to see what's happening in the world I watch Sky News headlines on my iPad and then switch off. Need to use this iPad less though.

I am an absolute tele addict.

I don't concentrate if I listen to the radio and I don't like being unable to see a persons expression for example if a debate is going on, as on here you can easily misjudge what a person actually means.

I enjoy the 24 hour news coverage and watching parliament is an eye opener at times. It can be very interesting to hear and see what is happening first hand and in real time as things move so fast some days.

To be fair health issues give me the time to be sat on my backside. I would prefer to be out and about but the tele is a good source of amusement and of course a little bit of company in an odd way.

I probably do watch too much.

I wasn't suggesting it is snobbery. Just referring to previous posts.

Since retiring, I find that I still wake up early but am not compelled to get up! I now watch catch up on the I Player. Such luxury! X

Not snobbery jingl. I just know that if it goes on I shall just sit and look at it and I reckon I do enough of that during the evening

Is it snobbery? Or just not wanting the box to take over the day?

I like to watch--Who Do You Think You Are.. Never The Twain..and Long Lost Family..

And I love Comedy, it is a very powerful thing to help change your mood for the better.

Well said Mishap!!

I have lunch with Bargain Hunt and when the repeats of the Pallisers were on, I either watched in the afternoon or recorded them if I couldn't.

Another evenings only here too. The only time it goes on during the day is either during the winter when the weather is too bad for even me to go out or when I am laid up. The Beijing Olympics were wonderful to watch when my leg was attached to a machine for 6 weeks after I broke it.
Have to admit watching the whole day when Le Tour started in Yorkshire.

We put the kitchen and bedroom TVs on at 6 am. I usually remember to turn the bedroom one off as I leave the room or I can go upstairs to get changed/put washing away etc and end up watching Bargain Hunt or some such for ages. I turn the kitchen one off as soon as Breakfast finishes and listen to Radio 2 or 5Live. If something has happened that warrants having the lunchtime news on then we would put it on while we have lunch. It quite often will stay on then.

I always watch Pointless and whatever is on in the afternoon if I'm ironing!

I tend to wake up at between 3am and 4am and the tv goes on straight away, I toddle into the kitchen to make tea or coffee and then plonk down to watch something I've recorded or I might even brave the news (it does tend to be slightly better at that hour). Not a lot else you can do at that time without waking the neighbours up!

Sometimes the daytime programmes are more interesting and informative than the evening ones. Like Marelli I believe it all goes back to parental conditioning. My mother whom I admired very much was very happy to sit down with an interesting book or chat to friends in the mornings. In later life she enjoyed TV in the mornings especially if sport was involved Housework can wait, she said. She never had a routine but it all got done in the end.

I don't watch TV till 6 as well!(unless it's raining!)

Mishap is right, there is a sort of snobbery regarding tv, what you watch and also what time you watch.Throw caution to the winds and watch what you want when you want. We deserve it! Women feel guilty about everything.

My rule is no wine until 6 pm just poured one!

There is so much snobbery about TV - you watch it when you want to! It is your life - enjoy what you enjoy and be proud of it!

I have several friends with no TV at all and they think they are superior - I do not agree - they are missing out on entertainment and learning.

I have occasionally watched a Midsommer Murder on a winter's afternoon but usually the TV is off all day. OH is at work so it's nice and peaceful. I am trying to wean myself off my iPad though. I love this site and a couple of others but I spend far too much time on the iPad. I used to read a lot, would like to get back to it.

Like shysal, I feel guilty if I sit in an easy chair and read/knit or watch tv during the morning. However, this self-imposed rule doesn't seem to apply to Facebook or Gransnet!
I think it's my mum's fault, because she never 'sat down' ("Oh, I've never sat down all day!") until the afternoon, when she'd then curl up on her chair and have what she used to call her '5 minutes'. That was her nap.

Same here., Used to feel guilty if I had the TV on during the day. Finally relented last winter, - miserable, rainy, floods etc, so now allow myself
to put it on in the afternoons if I want. Still can't watch it in the morning though. The guilt would kill all the enjoyment!

I feel guilty if I sit in an easy chair, read or watch TV during the day. Nobody gave me that rule, it's just the way I feel. Thank goodness my inner boss allows me to come onto GN as often as I please, as long as I am sitting on a hard chair at the table!