Are you a morning person?

I wake up early these days, since the advent of the menopause I'm no longer sleep well, a lot of tossing and turning, so I tend to get up at 6.30ish and make coffee and take my husband one up at 7. I then read for half an hour before I shower. I'd say I'm a morning person although I do need that 2nd coffee and sometimes 30 minutes of yoga to feel fully awake, I'm not great first thing but I like mornings particularly sunny ones like today, we are going off for a walk in Bushy Park once my husband stirs his stumps. Annoyingly I have a habit of falling asleep around 9 pm which is often when I am hoping to watch a programme so I find myself catching up with it on IPlayer or the like. I go to bed at 10.30ish, read for a while and then try and go to sleep.

I am not sure if it is a blessing or a curse but I am an all day long person with a love of the solitude and silence of night.

I have always had to work late at night as a single mother, but all my adult life I have worked and been up at 6am to get the children up, fed, dressed and sorted and to the childminder before going to work. I am rarely asleep before 2am. I can't drop off and have never been one for daytime naps. I am always alert and it's a form of anxiety I suppose. People have always relied on me so now I find it very hard to switch off. OH is snoring away next to me. I have my Kindle and my books ( and Gransnet,) so I pass the sleepless hours quite contentedly. I am sure so little sleep is bad for me but I seem to thrive despite quite a few chronic conditions.
I no longer work so I am often in bed still at 7.30 am, A real treat. OH always brings me up a nice cup of tea before I rise, soon afterwards.

I am a morning person. If possible, I like to accomplish everything I've got to do as early as I can in the day. Sometimes appointments have to be later on but I try to make them early in the morning if I can.

Absolutely a morning person. Wide awake around 6am, off for walkies as soon as it's light. I do around 6 miles and find it much harder work if I go in the afternoon. I like to get all my jobs and exercise done so that I can relax by late afternoon. DH is the opposite - he can sleep for Britain and won't do anything until he's got a deadline. Very frustrating!

Definitely a morning person. If I am not up and about by 6.30, I am not well. If for any other reason I sleep after 7.00am, then that is my definition of a morning lost.

This is regardless of how many times I am up in the night. I never turn the light on if called to the bathroom and can practically do the whole thing without waking up.

Oh dear, no not a morning person. My preference is for a slow and preferably silent start to the day. Once I’ve had two large mugs of tea I may, just may, be prepared to say good morning. It’s not time related, Makes no difference if it’s 6am or 9am. My Dad was the same. My Mum stayed in bed until we had both left the house. Mr C says it’s a shame he doesn’t have that option .

Definately a morning person, I like to be up by 6am on a week day so can I feed the animals and wake up with a couple of coffees and a browse on my iPad before walking the dog and getting to work for 9.
Hubby is a night owl so he stays put in bed until I wake him, I get most annoyed if I over sleep... rarely happens as the dog is my 6am alarm... but it throws my morning out!

I'm a night owl and DH is a lark!

Night owl here,never in bed before 2am ,sometimes much later ,my OH is the same so its fine . We can often be found dancing around the sitting room after midnight or watching several episodes of some obscure TV series .Up around 9.30 or later if we fancy a lie in.Half seven when our GD stays as we take her to school 15 miles away . We had decades of being tied to early starts with our business and its great to have some freedom now .

I've always been a night owl. My mother used to see the light under my bedroom door and tell me to put the book away and go to sleep when she was going to bed.
I'm no different now. I have been known to clean the bathroom at 11:00 pm. I'm often posting on Gn at midnight or after. I'm usually up by 8:30 am though.

Another morning person here. I’m at my best between 6.00 and 6.30 am when I get up make tea and go back to bed till DH wakes at about 8.00. That is my main time on GN, the News, the Tennis and emails. I usually settled down to sleep between 10.00 and 10.30pm. I also have to have a sleep in the day to keep going.

You sound like my bladder twin sodapop ???. Though it's not really funny, is it? I'm so envious of DH, who just gets into bed and sleeps. For hours. And he can go all day, quite literally 7 or 8 hours, without needing to pee.
I long for a night of uninterrupted sleep, but it's a distant memory these days. Although I did have a night a couple of weeks ago when I woke only once, which was quite astonishing for me!

Me too Bathsheba sometimes I can go back to sleep other times I have to read for half an hour. Some nights I only need to go a couple of times but occasionally it's half a dozen.

I would be a morning person if only I didn't wake so many times in the night for a call of nature. Drives me crazy. I don't always get back to sleep immediately either, so when I do eventually wake up at around 6.30 (always for yet another visit to the loo), I often just want to crawl back under the duvet for more sleep, especially during the autumn and winter months! On the rare occasions when I'm not disturbed too much in the night, I'm happy to get up at 6.30 and start the day - I love that quiet time before DH gets up and puts the news on (he's a night owl and doesn't usually surface until around 9.00am).

I’m a lark, as my father was, but I haven’t passed on the early gene to any of my offspring.
As soon as I wake I get up, usually 5ish. I have a short nap on most days and go to bed at 9.30ish.
I HATE the twice yearly messing about with the clocks, it takes me weeks to get used to. Is this worse for larks or for owls?

I've always been a larky type, even in my student days. I love the mornings, and enjoy being up and about early in the day. I don't go to bed very early - I find I sleep more soundly if I don't settle down until about 11.30 - but do have the occasional cat-nap in the daytime.

It depends entirely on the day and how I wake up. I've been an all day sloth today, and I seem to have done nothing useful at all. I can be a bit of a whirlwind on a good day though!

Night Owl here!
Probably due to years as a Licensee and all the late nights, never usually got to bed before 1am
When I'm looking after Dgs in the School hols and have to be there for 7.30, I usually fade in the afternoon.
I tell Dgs9 that I'm "resting my eyes", he once told me that while I was "resting my eyes" I was snoring! ????

I've never had a long lie since DC came along. I used to love to sleep when I was young.
I am marginally more energetic in the mornings.
Yesterday I went to the cinema in the evening and promptly fell asleep.
DH was prodding me in the ribs. He said I wasn't the only one slumped.
Tonight I have people coming for a meal so had better get going.

I dont rush to get up but usually get downstairs by 8.20. If I have things I don’t want to do, I am best getting them done first thing. Sometimes I have a lie in, doing puzzles or reading, but it also suits my metabolism to get on with the day. This week however, we have both needed to be up and dressed and out of the kitchen before 8.00am for the decorators, which has been an effort, but I have realised that actually this creates extra hours in the day, if I needed them. I do tend to go on my iPad after breakfast and can easily spend time on it until 10.00 am , then I feel as if half the day has gone.
DH is a night owl. He watches endless programmes on Tv until the early hours. They are nearly all repeats. Even this week of early mornings has not caused him to change his habits. Everyone round here seems to have all their lights out by 10.00pm, so we are really late. I rarely go to bed before 11.30pm. Burning the candle at both ends, as they say.

I am up early then zzzzzzzzzzz in the chair about 4 , unless I manage to get out of the chair and shake myself , bed about 10 but then read till the wee hours . Then one morning I sleep in , catch up and then the circuit starts again

I dunno tbh i get up around 7am but generally don't spring into action until around 11 am. I do what I need to and don't generally collapse in a heap until evening and bed around 11pm.

Usually wake dead on 6, and read or do puzzle until DH surfaces at around 7 Love the early mornings in spring and summer, but it is a bit dark and chilly now. We are always at the shops when they have just opened. Definitely amorning person. Early to bed etc......

I’ve always been a bit of a night owl, married to a lark so a bit of compromising has to take place. For years, we scheduled morning routines around children getting to school, us getting to work etc, we seldom overlapped much at the start of the day which to be honest suited me fine. I think my old boy imagined that, in retirement, we’d sit companionably together over a breakfast cuppa! That’s not happening, I still prefer my own company 1st thing in the morning so we seldom meet properly till I’ve had breakfast on my own! Antisocial moi??

No. When I wake up, be it at five o’clock or eight o’clock, I don’t like anyone to speak to me until I have had my first cup of coffee. In monastic silence. Even the birds aren’t allowed to sing. ?