Afternoon nap

I never sleep during the day, but often nod off on the sofa at about 9-15pm! As a matter of routine I always set SKY to record whatever I'm watching, so if I fall asleep, I can see the end of the programme when I wake up!

Just love an afternoon nap. In the winter or colder days I take a hot water bottle to bed for my aches and pains, curl up under the duvet and sleep. On warm sunny days I just lie on top of the bed, window open book in hand and can fall asleep within minutes. Bliss.

I loved my afternoon nap during my 'gap year' between retiring and becoming a 'granny nanny' - now it's a distant memory and as I get up at 5.30 7 days a week, I could happily nap at any point ?
When I occasionally manage a weekend back home I find it hard to do anything except nap ?
(Even worse, this morning I got up at 4.30 accidentally - so tired I read the clock wrongly ?

Beau I take my hat off to you. Don’t know how you manage it, I certainly couldn’t. I would love to be able to nap during the day but no matter how tired I feel I don’t seem to be able to fall asleep. I’ll try listening to a meditation on UTube and see if that works.

Didn't Margaret Thatcher swear by the 20minute "power nap". Not that any of us are anything like MT in any other way of course!

Oh you lucky things. I can't nap! My husband can say I'm having a nap and 5 seconds later he's asleep. Not fair!

I had a 3pm 'appointment' at Waitrose but at the self service checkout, realised that I didn't remember the sequence of the pin with my new card (new bank)
Long story short, I had to leave shopping, walk home and back and home again, only a few hundred yards but, after putting shopping away, I showered and changed into sleepwear. Sunny bedroom, yogurt and book beckoned...I woke up at 02.40...hence typing a comment at this ungodly hour.
Still, retirement has lots of advantages.

You needed a rest after all that GabriellaG.

Often have a nap on the bed for about three quarters of an hour, great, feel much better for it.

I really try and avoid a doze in the afternoon, as unless it’s very short, (around 15 minutes) I feel dreadful. Sometimes though, I just go.....

I've just had 30 mins, feel so much better. It doesn't seem to affect my sleeping at night. We had been out to lunch, and when I came to, felt the urge to bake muffins. Lemon and poppyseed are in the oven right now. I will take some to my new-ish neighbour and some to another kind neighbour who gave us a length of green screening mesh for the garden. Maybe I will keep two and we can have them later.

My dh always has an afternoon nap. I can’t always makes me feel sick.

We lived with my maternal grandparents until I was three after which my mother and I sometimes went over to stay with them in the school holidays. I vaguely remember afternoon 'lie-downs' by my mother and grandmother, probably from about 1.30 (after washing up) to about 3pm. In her later years (she died in her early 60s), unless I was taking my mother out for a run in the car, she would go for a lie-down.

We blamed our conservatory. Have lunch, sit down on sofas with coffee and wake half an hour later to cold coffee. We thought things would change when we had a solid roof put on, but no, that darned room is still sending us both to sleep. It can’t be our age - can it?

I usually have a doze after lunch as opposed to a nap. I have to sit up in armchair for this as if I lie down I go fast asleep for a couple of hours , feel dreadful for the rest of the day and can't sleep at night.

I haven't mastered the art of a power nap.
I usually sleep for hours, wake up dribbling and not knowing where I am.

? Miss A

I love a nap during the day. If I lay on the sofa I only nap for an hour or so, but if I go to lie on the bed, I usually end up getting in it, then I would probably sleep until the next day if my hubby doesn’t wake me up. I either have great trouble sleeping or I ‘marathon’ sleep. During those types of sleep you could put a bomb under me and I would not hear it!

5.30 every morning Beau!!
What time you retire?

It's because I need to see to my 2 cats before DGS wakes up between 6 and 6.30 - I also empty DD dishwasher before they wake up. When I move into my granny annexe soon I hope to have a lie in until 6 some days as I have a cat flap built into the patio doors ?
Weekends tbh I did not expect to still be on nanny duty at 6am but DD and SIL are tired after their working week so I feel I have to step in - I won't pretend I'm not permanently exhausted ?

Go to bed around 10 but sometimes up in the night with the baby too, especially lately.

I'm left quite speechless. I'm afraid I couldn't do all that. You must be a very young very considerate granny. I hope you get a holiday Beau.

I can’t deliberately nap in the afternoon, though, like others, I have fallen asleep on my recliner in the warm conservatory. Throughout my early childhood, my father’s habit was to have a Sunday afternoon nap. He would go up shortly after lunch and get up for tea. I rather resented this as I thought he should be spending his time running round with me, but then I didn’t appreciate the fact that older fathers needed to conserve their energies for working! We have a friend who would visit us and almost invariably fell asleep after lunch. We were always happy to let him, but his wife was very embarrassed by it.

Hello Beau. Feel free to tell me to mind my own business, but you do that seven days a week. Is that not too much?

Annep, he does go to nursery 2 days per week now but I still have to be 'on duty' early mornings to get him dressed etc. on those days. I think that's how I ended up doing so much at weekends - they think I have 2 days off but in reality I do everything else that needs doing in those 2 days he's at nursery. Yes it is too much really but it's now a catch 22 situation for reasons I can't really go into. ?