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What wakes you up in the morning?

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Cabbie21 Mon 28-Jul-25 06:40:02

Usually it’s needing the loo! Or arthritic pain.
I’m currently away from home on a summer school on a university campus. I’ve been awake a while, but I’m guessing everyone in the building is awake now at 6.30, as the bin lorry has just been. That made enough noise in itself, then the men were shouting as they worked, but what really amused me was an automated voice, in the poshest of accents, announcing
“ Stand clear. Vehicle reversing”.

Pantglas2 Mon 28-Jul-25 06:59:43

Birdies - I love the fact that they like my garden but there are times when I’d prefer the lie in to their dawn chorus…

keepingquiet Mon 28-Jul-25 07:06:43

Usually my bladder- sometimes my cough- sometimes just daylight?

kittylester Mon 28-Jul-25 07:13:36

The broken manhole outside the bedroom window!! Usually about 5 am when cars start coming down the road and it starts to 'click clack'

I regularly report the problem to the council, the local councillor and the MP, as do the neighbours, and we thought that relief was on the way when someone came, took photos and painted a blue cross on it. That was 2 months ago and it's still click clacking.

Ladyleftfieldlover Mon 28-Jul-25 07:16:59

Often my bladder or more recently the blackbirds who are nesting just beyond my window. Their squawking is deafening.

BlueBelle Mon 28-Jul-25 07:23:39

My inbuilt 4am clock, my little brain clock that’s says, ‘hey up wake up it’s around 4 am’

Grandma70s Mon 28-Jul-25 07:34:13

I seem to have an internal alarm clock. I wake between six and seven, almost always. Have never slept late, not even when I was a teenager.

Astitchintime Mon 28-Jul-25 07:39:38

In equal measure………needing the loo, and bird song - particularly a thrush who lives very close by and sits in a neighbouring tree singing the dawn chorus. It is a delight…….and I am grateful that I woke up this morning, many people didn’t 😔

Whitewavemark2 Mon 28-Jul-25 07:40:44

A purr

Flippinheck Mon 28-Jul-25 08:10:37

My bladder and / or my hungry cat.

ViceVersa Mon 28-Jul-25 08:12:40

Grandma70s

I seem to have an internal alarm clock. I wake between six and seven, almost always. Have never slept late, not even when I was a teenager.

Yes, same here, although mine is usually between seven and half past. If I do need to be awake by a particular time, say for an appointment, I will set an alarm on my phone, but I rarely need it.

Magenta8 Mon 28-Jul-25 08:13:53

Bladder, daylight, the need to bring the milk in and cooing pigeons.

harrigran Mon 28-Jul-25 08:17:34

My bladder in the summer months and the heating coming on in the cooler months.
Awoke confused this morning as the boiler is humming and the radiators are clicking, it must be cool outside.

Millie22 Mon 28-Jul-25 08:22:23

The builders in the field near our house. Constant beeping and banging so Sundays are the only lovely quiet morning when it's like it always used to be and I can hear the birds properly.

Maggiemaybe Mon 28-Jul-25 08:58:48

Pigeons, the hum of traffic building up in the distance, cars crunching over the gravel when neighbours are heading for work, the squeaky allotment gate when the first gardeners arrive, cheery dog walkers who could do with keeping their voices down before 7 o’clock.

Redhead56 Mon 28-Jul-25 09:07:22

The noise my DH makes telling Alexa to turn the alarm off every morning. Then in the en-suite continually turning the tap on full blast it drives me mad I have give up complaining now he does not listen!

GrannyGravy13 Mon 28-Jul-25 09:14:35

The seagulls on the field along with the birds in my garden, as I sleep with the window wide open.

Gymstagran Mon 28-Jul-25 09:28:45

My upstairs neighbour as she slams her front door, which is next to my bedroom, when she goes out to work.

jusnoneed Mon 28-Jul-25 09:32:00

I always wake around 5.30 these days. At the moment the first noise is the screech of the gulls that nest on houses across the back of us. Getting worse every year.
The crows are often dancing on the roof too, they like picking off the moss looking for their breakfast.

Mt61 Mon 28-Jul-25 09:33:08

Painful, stiff legs, 6am 😩

merlotgran Mon 28-Jul-25 09:45:15

Needing the loo…or Peggy does.

midgey Mon 28-Jul-25 09:46:00

My dog’s bladder! She wakes most mornings at about 5.30!

Northernsoulnanna Mon 28-Jul-25 09:47:10

We have a flock of geese who fly over everymorning usually about 7am make such a noise.
They fly from lakes by the A1 (5 mins away) to the lakes outside our village
They usually return near the A1 about 6
Its as if they wear watches.
This is followed by the Red Kites they make a sqauking noise. They are circleing all day, love watching them..

sodapop Mon 28-Jul-25 09:48:35

My bladder and my dogs wanting their walk

nanna8 Mon 28-Jul-25 10:03:38

Currawongs, magpies and wattlebirds looking for their breakfast. I don’t feed them everyday because I don’t want them to become too dependant but they let me know when I don’t.