Thread two for the 3am crew

Oh that was a terrible night. Awake until 3 and then just slept for a couple of hours. Too much on my mind. Luckily a completely empty day in fact empty the next few days.

Am dreading the heat. It will be 31 deg on monday. No joke for DH with severe emphysema and virtually bed bound. I must set up the fans today. I am glad we now have several and one big one which nearly takes off.

I have just seen your post crazyH what very sad news especially for the grandchildren and of course his wife. 💐

I got up at 6.00 am after a reasonable night to make a cuppa. I trundled downstairs to find it was only 5.00 am 😏 This is going to put me out all day.

I think Pam Ayers should write one of her excellent poems about broken sleep for us Oldies.

Back to napping through the night. It’s exhausting.
I’m also back to having a shirt, but discombobulating nap after lunch. It doesn’t help the nights but makes the rest of the day more tolerable…
Another joy of getting older, I fear.

We are away for a few days and a long drive yesterday. But a reasonable night’s sleep …given a different bed, a very warm room. And not terribly good pillows.

That's very sad CrazyH. I'm sorry for your loss, it must be very hard on his wife and your grandchildren.

Yesterday was very hectic, we moved into an apartment in preparation for the new kitchen being installed. DH worked like a trojan, with me helping as much as I could.

So I was in bed at just gone 7.00 and thankfully I slept for a few hours.
4.00 am now and my restless legs are kicking off again. I hope I'm tired enough to ignore them but it's doubtful.

Good morning HelterSkelter. I have woken up far too hot. I’m always cold when I come to bed so snuggle up in the quilt, then wake up dripping!
I have done Wordle and read the headlines. Can I drop off again? Let’s see …

Again another few nights of better less disturbed sleep and now here I am wideawake at 2 am.
Have done Wordle and read a few posts.
Will return to my latest book. Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald. She describes living on a boat on the tidal Thames at Battersea Reach in the 60s and how it suddenly moves and creaks when the tide comes in. I have always wondered how on earth the boats don't tip over when they spend half a day lying on their sides on the muddy river bottom. Most unnerving.

The turn out fir events meetings even voting seems abysmal in England people seem to have gone into a ‘not my business’ mode
Bp very disappointing
Yes I ve been awake my usual 4 am but just been playing sudukos and word games

Thankyou Aldom

Hello CrazyH. I'm sorry to hear your sad news.
My grandchildren lost both paternal grandparents a little while ago. I feel for you and your grandchildren.

No one has posted since Thursday

Well. I haven’t slept a wink - had bad news - my oldest 2 GC’s other grandad passed away yesterday, quite suddenly . A tall strong man, 84. No previous cardiac history. My grandson and he were very close, played golf together.
My grandson is devastated - so is my granddaughter.
I am so sad. He was a kind man . I always called him, if I wanted a lightbulb changed . I don’t know how his wife J will cope. 😢

Thanks, grandMattie, I certainly did need it. Back to four hours last night though.

That’s interesting, doodle. You must have needed it.
Curiously, an article in my paper today suggests that the much advertised, mythical and trumpeted 8 hrs per night “will speed aging”! Apparently, the sweet spot is between 6.5 and 7.3 hours, so I’m not doing so badly.
It’s also interesting that so many of the old shibboleths are found to be wrong. How many more will be shattered?

I got nine (9!!) hours’ sleep last night. I’ve been unwell, and I think it ‘broke’ overnight as I woke up aware that I’d been sweating but felt reasonably rested.

I had a long and vivid dream (not a nightmare, but unsettling) so it wasn’t as therapeutic as it might have been, but I’m sure it’s done a lot of good all the same. I’m wide awake now, but I have no commitments tomorrow so can sleep late if I am able to.

I slept very nicely at the weekend.
Bliss .
But now I've been awake since three.
I had The Cough which I've fixed with an inhaler and some nice hot tea .
It's passed .
But -
I'm streaming with congestion and itching with hay fever .
So now I'm trying some antihistamines.

I'm busy tomorrow and I know that having not slept I'll struggle through the day.

It’s very quiet here, hopefully everyone is sound asleep.
I’m coughing and spluttering, I honestly don’t know where this cold has come from 🙄
It’s dark, cold and silent outside apart from a fox shrieking in the woods behind us.
I had a very successful car search yesterday, I have found my little automatic car, it’s a metallic orange Micra! Very bright and cheerful, lovely to drive around and, even better, nearly a direct swop for my old car. Very pleased with how things have turned out.
Today there’s a zoom painting class this morning, I need to get everything ready, looking forward to it.

I’ve been awake since 11:30. DH has done a lot of gardening today and his hip and knees are giving him jip, so he has been snoring like a grampus. Banished to the spare bedroom at midnight. But I just can’t sleep.

Not too bad a night. Woke twice but went back to sleep easily. Woke properly at 5 .

HelterSkelter1 - my Gran awake at 5 or 6 referred to the dawn as ‘halflight,’ one word, emphasis on the ‘half ‘

Im wide awake and hungry, for Ceylon tea and toast
with bitter orange marmalade.

I had to close the window its cold out there 3 degrees,
now attempting renewed slumbers, bladder allowing.

I’m going through a patch of sleeping a bit better.
I get about 4 hours, then wake up for over an hour. I refuse to be defeated, don’t put the light on, finally go back to sleep very deeply got up to 2 hours.
It’s different to my other usual patterns. Most odd.

I had a busy day yesterday and felt exhausted at about five .
The Cough began .
One of the cafes was still open and I sat in it sipping tea and trying to stop coughing .
The air felt dry and dusty .
Anything seems to trigger it off .
By the time I got home - I felt horrible .
I've slept for several hours and have been awake since four Watching Charade on TV .

I’ve been trying not to pick up my phone when I wake up, but have had another run of bad nights’ sleep. The pattern seems to be that I sleep for around four hours then wake for an hour or so, then, if I can get back to sleep I get another hour, but that’s not a given. My watch records sleep patterns, including restlessness, and if I get the extra hour it’s usually very restless.

I ‘ve had three reasonable nights, but woke up just after 2. I always find something to worry about, however small.
Will roam around GN for a while and then try to sleep. Quiet day tomorrow so no problem .

I am wide awake, think I am over tired. So much on my mind. I will read for a while & see if I can get back to sleep.