What time do you get up in the morning?

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.

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.

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 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!

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 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.

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!

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.

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

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!!

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 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.

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 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?

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.

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!

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.

I get up as soon as I wake. Currently any time 6am to 6.45am. Can’t bare to lie stinking’ in bed. I’ve never set an alarm, but have worked 9-5pm for the last 40 years.
You die in bed my MIL always said. She did, which proved her point. Get up everyone, the fun starts here!

Never been an early riser but since covid at the start of the year I struggle to get out of bed before noon. Today, following the vaccination - to which I've had an awful reaction, it was 2pm before I crawled out from beneath the duvet.

kevincharley

Never been an early riser but since covid at the start of the year I struggle to get out of bed before noon. Today, following the vaccination - to which I've had an awful reaction, it was 2pm before I crawled out from beneath the duvet.

Relieved that I am not the only slugabed! Particularly recently as I am more comfortable and in less pain. I can relax and read until lunchtime!

Jeez you lot don’t like your beds do you. I’m 9am unless I’ve got an appointment or suchlike. Bed is a wonderful place. xxx

Polarbear2

Jeez you lot don’t like your beds do you. I’m 9am unless I’ve got an appointment or suchlike. Bed is a wonderful place. xxx

I’m with you . 9 - 10am unless l have to be somewhere. Always try & make appointments for after midday!

I can easily get up very early if I have to, did for years when working, but my natural rhythm is bed about 2 and up at 10. DH is in bed at 9 every night and I really don’t know when he gets up. He often leaves bed at 4 o’clock but I think he sleeps in his recliner. As he often sleeps in front of the tv from about 7ish he’s had a good 8 hours most nights.
My mum had an “I’m up, your up attitude” I never understood. She used to phone me every Wednesday morning about 9am saying “oh, you must be out shopping” she knew I always took a lie-in on Wednesday as I had a 12 hour night shift to do and wouldn’t get back to bed till 10am on Thursday. She did this every week for 12 years.
When she started on my daughter about her sleep pattern I told her “never let anyone assume moral superiority just because they got up before you!”

Bed at 2 am up at 11 am. Always been same apart from when I was working.

Now we have a puppy it's 6.30am! And I'm not a morning person - Aarrrghhhh!