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Are you an early bird or a night owl?

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Babs03 Thu 30-Jan-25 20:49:17

I tend to get up fairly early but stay in bed and do wordle and quordle whilst having a cuppa, fact is I can’t just jump out of bed bright eyed and bushy tailed in the morning, I need to take my time. So am not really an early bird and never have been. I much prefer staying up late at night to read or watch something on Netflix.
So what do you prefer, early mornings or late nights?

wibblywobblywobblebottom Sun 02-Feb-25 17:25:45

Night owl, always have been.

suelld Sun 02-Feb-25 17:43:40

Always been a Night Owl, tho until the last child eventually left home was never able to be one. Now I am in a severe swing state with insomnia most nights and today I woke at 5.15 PM,!
Needless to say I live alone.
I will improve but unless I have an appointment almost never awake til c. 11/12 am.
I must be unusual reading of everyone else’s getting up habits!

4xGranny Sun 02-Feb-25 17:45:45

I am definitely a night owl. I find it very difficult to get going in the morning unless there is somewhere important to be.
I stay up late playing word games on my iPad and then read for at leadt an hour in bed.

Sheian57 Sun 02-Feb-25 19:20:01

I usually go to bed around 10, but am a scrabble fiend, so usually do a couple of games before light out around 11. I usually wake around 3 so might listen to podcast or sleep meditation. I wake around 6.30 to 7, read the news, exercise then breakfast. If it's cold, I can be tempted to stay in bed and scrabble

Happygirl79 Sun 02-Feb-25 19:58:19

TerriBull

An early bird, Awake anything between 6 and 7. We have a coffee 7ish, read the news online, chat about that, then I'll get on GN, check emails, Whats App, bank account, Ancestry, Duolingo, French first then German, all that can take anything up to 2 hours, I'm definitely not a night owl, I might have been once, not anymore, I'll be off to bed soon, I like to read for a while until I drop off, but I'm often awake again early hours, damn annoying!

My routine is very similar although I live alone. Wake up at 6.45 each morning. Read newspapers online, check accounts, Doulingo/ French practise for 30 minutes or so as off to Paris in three days time, coffee. Meet a friend and take a 30 minute walk then home for breakfast. Each night I'm in bed by 10 and sleep like a log. I always feel full of energy after a night's sleep and raring to go.

MissAdventure Sun 02-Feb-25 20:27:59

It sounds like you have the perfect balance.

Dempie55 Mon 03-Feb-25 10:20:26

I’ve always been a night owl, hated mornings, even as a child. Now I get into bed around 11:30 pm, read/Wordle for an hour, sleep for 9 hours solid, so wake at 9:30, but then scroll on phone/read emails for an hour. Listen to PopMaster on Greatest Hits Radio at 10:30 and actually leave my bed at 10:45. Don’t do breakfast, have a brunchy thing around noon. I love being retired so much!

Dogmum2 Mon 03-Feb-25 11:34:23

Another night owl here. Married to a lark. I now work evenings which suits me fine. Later this week i have a 5.30/6am start to get to a hospital appt for 8am! eeek

MissAdventure Mon 03-Feb-25 11:37:15

Oh no!
That's almost the middle of the night!

JdotJ Wed 05-Feb-25 14:34:24

Definitely a lark

Babs03 Wed 05-Feb-25 15:56:43

Dogmum2

Another night owl here. Married to a lark. I now work evenings which suits me fine. Later this week i have a 5.30/6am start to get to a hospital appt for 8am! eeek

That is brutal. Whenever I have to get up at stupid o’ clock for anything I can’t eat or drink and will fall asleep in the car/train/bus, then generally feel out of sorts for several hours.