What wakes you up in the morning?

Arthritic pain in my back for me or being too warm.....

My puppy! It's like having a young baby again. Her bladder wakes her up between 5.30 and 6.30 whereupon she becomes full of beans whilst I look like death warmed up.

Well it used to be the birds earlier in the year as we have lots here but they don’t seem to be doing such a dawn chorus at the moment. Do you think it’s the changing weather patterns ? The summer seems to be getting earlier every year and August feels like September ?

The light.

I wake up to the sunlight flooding in and make myself a cuppa but I'm up and down all night to the loo so it's just another wakening for me.

BlueBelle

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

Me too. Rarely bladder.
It doesn’t half annoy me to be awake so very early!

My cat sitting on my chest asking for breakfast at stupid O’Clock. Here’s a picture of the culprit sleeping on me during the night

My alarm clock

A large tail, thumping against my bedroom door.
This is my 3rd Airedale, but a Rescue this time. And she’s so happy.
How can I not love the sound of that happiness, against the door?

This morning it was a gentle hug from MrJ, back from three days away.
But it could be the blasted pigeons, light creeping round the blackout blind, need for the toilet or our deaf neighbour calling his dog.

Pain. Continuous unrelenting pain. Started 54 years ago when pregnancy started to twist my spine out of shape. But hey ho such is life, just got to get on with it.

Like most of you, my need to wee is more reliable than anything else!

either my bladder or the blasted white pigeons [doves?] who nest in the ivy outside my bedroom window or the planes taking off from bournemouth airport - they start taking off around 7.00 and fly right over my house.

My bladder or stoma bag

Ginger Maine Coon cat, 6 kg, between 4 and 5 a.m.
Order of tortures:
Hefty dab from hefty paw
Wet nose and prickle head-top whiskers in face
Scalp lacerated by his claws-enough already!

A feeling of utter panic usually as I wonder if my husband has made it through the night after a stroke and three bleeds on the brain.

Usually pain from my back if I turn over badly when asleep but yesterday it was a 5am shriek as I had horrible cramp. No chance to go back to sleep but at least I got up early and was able to go to beloved Saltburn

Its definitely my back having got into an awkward position again and the minute I think of that my bladder reminds me of itself so then I'm awake and scrolling the BBC news.

I remember someone on GN saying that pigeons cooing said ‘My toe hurts Betty’ I think of that every time I hear them.

Either pain or Mr C’s early morning bathroom trip. It gives me an hour at least to sit in bed reading GN then the paper. A calm, relaxed space for me.

fgt a gentle hug when needed. I know those worry mornings, and evenings.

The birds, and occasionally a cat, calling outside my bedroom window.

Two pigeons cooing on the telegraph poles outside the bungalow or DH going to the loo.

Oops Gio not Gino. I'm getting my Italian men mixed up.

Either the need for the loo or one of the cats walking on me or head butting me for breakfast

butterandjam

whyDelilahwhy

a Rich Italian

I was thinking " wooo hoo sexy guy" then realised.. no, she doesn't mean that kind of Rich Italian. Phew.

ha ha, sometimes, I have two !!