Breakfast in bed, yes or no?

No never. I like my breakfast in my conservatory, watching headlines, or weather outside.

Looking at the daily activities, early rising and commitments of lots of Grans, some lolling about ought to be de rigeur - at least sometimes. Mine is over breakfast. It’s extremely rare for me not to have a breakfast tray in bed. I love it and am so grateful to the dear someone who regularly provides it.

However, this can never involve anything - like toast - which might include the risk of even a stray crumb or two either on or in the bed! Horror! Each day tea and a bowl of something with oats: banana, pear, melon, chia seeds, dried red currants or blueberries, walnuts and a spoonful of Greek yoghurt. Delicious - to me. In winter, maybe porridge. No crumbs, stains or drama and a daily treat which wakes me up and sets me up for a morning’s activities.

Sometimes we all need little things to remind us we’re actually retired.

My DH is an earlier riser than I am and brings me up a cup of tea every morning and toast on a Sunday.
When the children were growing up he always did their Sunday breakfast downstairs and brought mine up insisting I had a bit of time to myself.
I am very lucky and don't think I would swap him!

Yuck. I loathe breakfast in bed. Quite, quite different to a cuppa and book in bed!
One year, my lovely DCs made it for me on Mothering Sunday, my heart sank. I valiantly ate it, showering them with compliments and gratitude. Mercifully, it was a one off!

Before dh retired and enjoyed his Sunday lie-in, I’d often bring him some toast, coffee and the Sunday papers. It was reciprocation for the fact that he’d often bring me a cup of tea first thing.
I still often get the cup of tea if he’s up first, but we haven’t done any breakfast in bed since we retired, and can (usually) get up whenever we feel like it.

Never. I used to bring mugs of tea upstairs for DW and myself, but now I'm alone it is straight down to breakfast with coffee before showering.

No maybe occasional cuppa in bed. I am not really a breakfast person just have a bowl of chopped up fresh fruit and usually eat it reading Gransnet at my kitchen table

A description of a breakfast tray published in 1939.
". On her tray was a gay flowered breakfast set. Coffee and hot milk were in twin jugs with covered tops. There were three plates with covers on them, a little toast rack, two kinds of jam, about a dozen little balls of butter, sugar brown and white.There were an apple, an orange and a small bunch of grapes, with a gold knife and fork, and a napkin folded by her plate.. Under the first lid was a piece of grilled fish, under the second a fried egg on fried bread among crisp rashers of bacon, under the third little hot rolls of various kinds."
Pomfret Towers. Angela Thirkell.

I just wonder how large the tray was.

No, I don't like breakfast in bed, I like to get up shower get dressed and downstairs.

eazybee

A description of a breakfast tray published in 1939.
". On her tray was a gay flowered breakfast set. Coffee and hot milk were in twin jugs with covered tops. There were three plates with covers on them, a little toast rack, two kinds of jam, about a dozen little balls of butter, sugar brown and white.There were an apple, an orange and a small bunch of grapes, with a gold knife and fork, and a napkin folded by her plate.. Under the first lid was a piece of grilled fish, under the second a fried egg on fried bread among crisp rashers of bacon, under the third little hot rolls of various kinds."
Pomfret Towers. Angela Thirkell.

I just wonder how large the tray was.

and how many people were employed to carry it ?

Luckygirl3

The problem with evn a cup of tea in bed is that I then feel disinclined to get up and loll about for far too long.

I thoroughly enjoy 2 mugs of TIB (not at the same time, natch) and nibble a few soft dried apricots after my second brew. Time passes as it does. I’m not a ‘rusher’ never have been! 🤷‍♀️
Unless of course an appointment to go to and I do my level best not to make one before 10am!
#lazygran
I have been known to make myself a bowl of porridge and take it back …. 😂

Once our DCs had grown up and left home, DH brought me breakfast in bed every Sunday!
A much appreciated treat.

Apparently the late Princess Margaret stayed in bed all morning (hungover mostly I bet after a party the night before!). She’d eat, read the papers (Tatler too I expect), smoke using her cigarette holder and make numerous phone calls. Staff would draw her a bath. She’d then ‘dress for lunch’.

My kind of woman! Apart from the hangover and the cigarette …

Can you even imagine being waited on to that extent? I’m sure she’d have rung for coffee from her bed too.

How the other half live eh?

Coffee in bed always, OH kindly brings me a cup. Breakfast no! I like to be showered and dressed, I'm a late breakfaster anyway. On the couple of occasions I've had toast brought when maybe I was ill, somehow there'd be a crumb or two left behind.

Sometimes we all need little things to remind us we’re actually retired and ‘loved’ too GrandmaFrench. 💕

When I was about 17 a friend and I did a summer holiday as chambermaids in a posh hotel. We had to carry huge trays with breakfast in bed for some guests.

It might be scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, kippers, poached eggs on toast, toast racks, fresh juice, cereals, milk jug, cutlery, heavy crockery, tea pot etc. I was very petite then and carrying that lot was really difficult along long corridors.

Babs03

Primrose53

I am nursing what I believe is a sprained ankle. It is terribly painful. I limped downstairs at 7.45 and checked on my husband who sleeps there due to a severe stroke.

He didn’t want a cup of tea so I made myself one and brought it back to bed and it is bliss up here! The sun is pouring in double aspect windows and I am propped up on a V cushion. If only someone would bring me some toast! No chance of that now.

I sympathise. Have got a dental abscess but have had to soldier on due to DH also having had a stroke. I do get my own cuppa in the morning and see if DH wants one but usually is just me. Am afraid brekkie in bed is just not going to happen. But anyway just think of the crumbs and butter stains.

Hope you feel better soon. 🤞
Yesterday I kept wondering what we would do if this ankle pain became permanent. How would we cope with both of us out of action.

I have been taking paracetamol every 4 hours and have just strapped my ankle up which has helped. When I get dressed I will dig out some ankle boots to support it even more. Resting it in bed overnight has also helped.

Nope - I don't think I've ever had breakfast in bed. Though I've never been married or otherwise partnered-up.

Guess I could always make it and carry it back to bed myself - but I keep my bedroom at a lower temperature than the rest of my house (as it was always always cold when my mother was bringing me up!!). So now I'm in charge - it's always heated - but at that lower temperature - as I learnt to put as much bedding as I could find on my bed to combat her cold temperatures.

It's only a little bungalow I live in anyway these days - so it's only feet from my kitchen to my study (the 2nd bedroom) and so I carry it through to my study and catch up on the news on my computer whilst I'm having it. I know...I know....I should head into my dining table/chairs in the sitting room and eat it "mindfully" - as at least I do have a bit of "greenery" I can look at whilst eating meals there.....one day....

Oh Primrose and Babs 🌺🌸 these are for you. x

A cup of tea every morning but not food.

Primrose53

When I was about 17 a friend and I did a summer holiday as chambermaids in a posh hotel. We had to carry huge trays with breakfast in bed for some guests.

It might be scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, kippers, poached eggs on toast, toast racks, fresh juice, cereals, milk jug, cutlery, heavy crockery, tea pot etc. I was very petite then and carrying that lot was really difficult along long corridors.

When I was 16 I had a summer holiday job as 'au pair' to two young girls whose parents ran a large hotel.
Every morning I would have to take their mother breakfast in bed. I didn't have to prepare it, of course, the chefs did that.

Ps Primrose have you had an X-ray?
Do they do them locally or could you get someone to take you while someone sits with your DH? Do you have a Befriending Group in your area? They would help.

Babs03 hope that clears up soon.

Breakfast in bed is overrated anyway!

Can't imagine having grilled fish in my bedroom especially kippers!!! Maybe Pomfret Towers was very draughy and blew the smell away.

Coffees or a large mug of tea lovely in the very early morning. But I make it myself. In the summer I sometimes sit on the back step, but wintertime in bed.

No.

First mug of coffee in the kitchen, before walking. All others at the table.

Often take a milky coffee and toast back to bed with me to enjoy at leisure. Late DH often fetched me tea and toast in bed before he became ill.