Breakfast in bed, yes or no?

Yes, what a lovely treat 🥞

It’s a no from me. I might have a cup of tea very occasionally.
I was bedridden during Covid for over two weeks, although I hardly ate at all, I still cannot abide the idea of crumbs (or drips! I’m messy) getting in my sheets.

No breakfast in bed, not even a biscuit, but for every day for over 40 years my dh brought me a cuppa in bed every morning. When he could no longer manage to carry the tray with cups and saucers on it up the stairs, we resorted to mugs which he could hold in one hand whilst using the other hand on the stair rail! Then, gradually, dementia took over and our morning roles were reversed! Never fancied breakfast in bed as I like to be up for at least an hour before eating!

Occasionally a cuppa in bed…. Breakfast or a midnight snack very very occasionally. The Grandchildren come for a sleepover… both boys get drinks and breakfast in bed courtesy of Grandad 😂🤣😂

Only when poorly.

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.

This breakfast sounds lovely!

I could no more eat or drink in bed than in the bath.
Breakfast is a banana after my first cup of coffee. I might have toast later after walking the dog.
I was brought up with cooked breakfasts and never ate another after leaving home. My own children refused anything in the mornings once past primary school.

We usually have coffee in bed (made by whoever wakes up first) before going down for breakfast. Of course, if you're of the Glenconner class you have someone to sweep the breakfast crumbs off the sheets and wash out the egg stains.

I don't have breakfast in bed but take tea or coffee up with me sometimes. I occasionally take biscuits up as well but sleeping on crumbs afterwards is annoying.

No breakfast in bed for me. Not even when I did have a partner. I think I would find it messy. He used to make me a cup of tea occasionally though.
I'm one of those who likes to get up as soon as I'm awake.
I never did like staying in bed.

Always have a cuppa and a biscuit in bed courtesy of DH and if feeling lazy or shattered then light breakfast in bed an hour later Yom Yom

I tried it once, never again!

I only ever have one pillow, and I can't sit up in bed; I either lie down or not at all, so being propped up would be extremely uncomfortable, and I couldn't imagine a tray across my legs!

I absolutely hated it when I was in the hospital!

I do enjoy a cup of tea in bed on days when DH goes off to golf early.
No, to breakfast in bed, too messy and too uncomfortable.

We had a Goblin teasmaid when we were first married Sago and just like you teabagwoman it was on my side of the bed and Mr. S. was more enamoured with it than I was.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

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?

I am surprised she didn’t have a bad back with all that loafing about

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.

Or how large the appetite was!😁

Yes, please.

Yes to breakfast in bed. It’s oats and then kefir on top. So easy to eat. It arrives after tea and cranberry juice which I swallow with d-mannose. After breakfast I take my medication. Bliss at the age of 84 after the many years of early rising.

I hate even drinking more than a sip of water in bed. My ex used to love making a huge full English breakfast on Sunday mornings, brought upstairs with a pot of coffee, the dog would bring the Sunday Times up from the doormat in all its many sections, and we’d eat and read the paper with the baby crawling around the bed, David Frost on the portable television. Then eventually the baby had a sibling and another, we’d either have three small children in the bed and their crumbs and spilt milk, or they’d be sent downstairs to “leave us in peace” and I hated that.

Since we split up nearly 30 years ago, I’ve never again had a television in my bedroom, nor eaten a meal in my bed, I don’t even like to read in bed, just sleep!

Sago

I’ve just remembered the good old Goblin teasmaid!
Did anyone have one or still got one?

Yes. It’s greatest benefit was when my grandma came to live with us. She couldn’t manage the kettle but it made her a mid morning drink to keep her going till I popped in at lunchtime.

My Dad always brought his 3 "girls" (mum and daughters) a cup of tea in bed every day. Once my sister and I married our husbands took over, its something I really miss now Im on my own --- plus the cheerful 'morning' that went with it.

I get myself tea and toast in bed on Saturdays after I have fed the cats, one of them licks my nose until I comply! This is a treat but take a cup of tea back to bed most days, after I have showered on work days , before I dress and daughter brings me one the two days I don't work. On the weekends I take her one . I have had a more substantial breakfast occasionally in bed in the past but not for a long time.

I've never had breakfast in bed. I never will either. I have to be up and dressed before I even make a cup of tea.

Never ever, I’ve offered frequently, a mug of tea is welcome no more, we often have a cooked breakfast on a Sunday but my wife is an early riser like to get going early - suits me

Yes, Sago, I had one for years. My dh thought it was wonderful but I hated it. Needless to say it was on my side of the bed so I got the benefit of the noise as it came to the boil.