What time do you get up in the morning?

Like some here, I’m a lark and DH is an owl. I like my bed and time alone in the morning. Currently I’m waking about 5.30 am but sit around in bed till 9.00ish on some days with my pot of tea and toast. Check the news and watch tv, eventually making DH a cuppa about 9.00. He has to sort his meds and insulin not too late in the morning. We manage very well as he gets to watch tv later in the evening.

Yesterday I was making tea in the kitchen and saw a pair of starlings in the garden collecting nest making materials before most of the world was awake. I’m always amazed at the noise of traffic even at this time in the morning. The morning chorus is so clear at this time and it takes me back to my childhood, listening to the birds singing.

The only downside is going out in the evening. I’m ready for bed by 10.00pm and it can be quite a struggle to keep going. DH on the other hand comes alive 9.00 pm onwards and has no problem in staying awake most of the night. I put some of his owlishness down to many years of shift work.

Nansnet

FarawayGran you are not alone! I'm a 'Night Owl' too! I've never been an early riser, except when I worked, and I had to get up at 6am! I'm more than happy to stay up until the wee small hours, but I don't sleep well, and therefore I hate getting up early! The only problem is that DH is also a 'Night Owl', but he still gets up with the 'Larks', and constantly complains that I'm wasting the day away if I don't get up early! I can see his point, and wish I was one of these people who could get up early, feeling refreshed!

I’m the same. So is my DH, so we sleep late and both wish we were up with the lark. We have fought it, tried to change it. It never works, so we’ve given-in!

One of the beauties of being retired is to go to bed whenever we want, and get up (mostly) whenever we want.
It doesn’t matter what time we do either.
We’re all different thank goodness and no one is right or wrong in their choices.
I appreciate some posters are still working so they don’t have the luxury.
I wake around 6-7 a.m. but am in no hurry to get up and start doing stuff.

I can't believe how rude some of the comments are on here. I'm sorry that some owls feel that larks feel superior; I certainly don't but I'm a natural lark and enjoy the freshness of the morning just as the owls enjoy the evening. Why can't we just enjoy the time we have whether are larks or owls?

Between 8 & 9 at the moment. Once DH is back to work ( next week hopefully) it will probably be nearer 8 every day. I don't buy a paper or watch TV news very often so I like to listen to Radio 4 in bed in the mornings.

I too do not sleep well therefore catch my zzz when can-often between 8 and 10 am!!However, I must say-no wonder those'larks' getbup at sparrow fart-they have been in bed for hours!! I too might be up at six f in bed at nursery hours! There is also life beyond ten pm.

Forced to retire at 70 because of covid,, I feel guilty that I am wasting time in bed, my parents said when I was a teenager, get up and do something you are a long time dead. I used to be out on the house at 7.30. Being by myself I feel I’m losing control, days should be filled but with what? I go to bed at midnight as usual and the iPad plays music before 7 then the radio switches on at 7am for the news. I have to take thyroid medicine so can’t eat for an hour, so lounge in bed till 9 or more. Maybe, when everything opens up I’ll be able to join clubs and travel or even find a part-time job I will be enthusiastic and jump out of bed.

I feel for you as have the same problem! May I also add-no wonder that bunch of old fogies get up at six am when they are all abed by ten!!

Sorry 7am love to get my jobs done and the day is mine.

When we both worked we used to be up early (6.30) now that we retired we usually wake about 7.30 but enjoy a cuppa and a read in bed before we get up around 8.45am showered and having breakfast by 9.30am unless we have any appointments.

5.30am/6.00am and have all my chores/cooking done by 7.30am/8.am. Rest of the day to do lots of things!

I wake around 6am or earlier during the week. Convenient because since we are allowed, I like the 7.15 swim in the heated pool at the gym and I’m home in time to be showered and ready for work on work days. Weekends I may wake up at that time, but DH makes a drink and we stay in bed and read till around 8. We go to bed around 11.30. Some nights I sleep well, others, I’m grateful for my Kindle.

I worked in the music business. Office hours started at 10.30am so New York and Los Angeles could be contacted in the evening. Working in a studio was mainly all nighters. Now retired I have gone back to my default setting. I rarely go to bed before 6am and get up about 2.30pm. I prefer the silence of the night, no traffic or children. Has always been thus. Always late for school. I have had chronic insomnia since childhood and would be lying in bed listening to the village clock chime the quarter hours until after 4am. I am a zombie until the afternoon. Obviously if I have an appointment I am up and get there on time. Get it over with, come home and go back to bed.

I don't set an alarm and usually get up any time between 7 am and 9 am although I have known to sleep later if I have been very tired. I agree that "larks" tend to act like they are superior, my sister always is up and dressed by 7am but then she complains that the day is very long! I am a night owl and proud of it!

FlexibleFriend

I get up at 9am as a rule but sometimes it's 10am, it depends on what time I wake up. I go to bed at 11pm. I sleep well.

Glad I found another one like me Love my bed.

I'm not sure why anyone thinks early risers consider themselves superior? A bit baffled by that.
I do get up early, usual berween 6.00/6.30even though l only work 3 days a week. No alarm, but years of getting up and going to work.

I'm up when DGS age 3 decides I should be!
Family are staying with me while their new house is being completed, and the young chap is a VERY early riser.
I usually get a pile of Dinky cars poured onto my pillow around 5am, and a little voice says: "Nanny, get up, you need a nice cup of tea!"
He's right, I definitely need a nice cup of tea, but a couple of hours later would be even nicer!
I dont really mind, because like many other Gransnetters I have chronic pain from arthritis, and I definitely have a better day if I rise early and have my medication and a hot shower.

Don't like going to bed, and don't like getting up. I like the status quo. If I ever see 4am-6am, it will be the end of my day not the beginning!
I tend to sleep reasonably well and my deepest sleep always seems to be in the morning.
I am capable of getting up in the middle of the night if needs be to collect family from airports or stations, and then going straight back to sleep when I get back into bed!
I love not being ruled by the clock!!! I'm in my mid 70s but feel like a teenager!!!!

I still work, so during the week I get up between 6.15 and 6.30. At weekends I usually lie in until 8am. Once I wake I have to get up. No reading playing games for me. During the week I usually go to bed around 10pm and then read for half an hour or so. At the weekends I go whenever I feel like it. Since hitting the menopause over 10 years ago, I rarely sleep more than 5 hours a night.

Also a night owl. For the past five years, or so, I've found it hard to sleep before 1.00am, and I might be up to the toilet twice after that. I'm in my soundest sleep after 5.00, so I'm not up till 9.00 some days unless I'm going somewhere. Like a previous poster, I wake with my stomach turning as a result of stress. Last night, I went to bed at 8.30, because I wasn't feeling well, but still wasn't asleep till 1.00ish, then only slept for a couple of hours. At almost 5.00, I gave in and had a small brandy and coke to ' settle me '. My DH died in December, so I can please myself, to some extent, but I still feel guilty.

It's not that I don't sleep well, I usually get my 7 hours but I'm definitely a night owl. I'm a writer and inspiration generally reveals itself in the late evening/early hours of the morning. So it's bed around 2am and awake around 10am, sometimes later. I'm also a movie addict and find most of the best are shown very late at night.

Whenever I've had enough sleep

Somewhere between 6 and 7.30 depending on what time I went to sleep or if I know something is happening early that I need to be up for. As I sometimes dont go to sleep til around 3.30 the 6 one is sometimes difficult

Its going later and later, I hate the dark yet seem to come awake on evening and into the small hours....most frustrating.. If I go to bed early just sleep longer. Used to be 8 ,then 9 etc now often dinnertime...northern style that is noon

I used to get up at 6 and showered, hair done, breakfasted and left by 7.30 be in the office by 8 (any later and I couldn't get a car space, which, as I needed the car for work, was more than a little annoying...)
When I went back to college 20 years ago, I did the same, to be in college by 8.15 ready for Morning Prayer. Lectures started at 9.

Now, (and particularly this past year) I find it difficult to leap out of bed much before 9am...

But I am an Owl...lights out not much before 11.30 - 12 and often later. So I suppose if I went to bed sooner I would wake earlier and get up earlier?