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Sallywally1 Sun 28-Jun-26 07:34:15

What time do you get up the morning. I usually get up around 8.00 but it can be a movable feast. My DH is strictly regimental about it and always gets up at 6.30. If he leaves it till 6.45 he has got up ‘late’ and has wasted the day.

tanith Sun 28-Jun-26 07:39:19

Awake anytime between 5 and seven bring a cuppa back to bed and scroll stuff but up at 8 I am hungry for breakfast by then having eaten dinner at 5.30ish the night before.

Sago Sun 28-Jun-26 08:08:06

Anytime between 6.30 and 8.00.
I do love to have a quiet cup of tea in bed though.

jusnoneed Sun 28-Jun-26 08:22:41

Usually between 5.30 and 6am, once I wake up I get up as I don't like lying in bed and wouldn't go back to sleep.

Pittcity Sun 28-Jun-26 08:25:03

I get up around 7am but have been known to sit in PJs drinking tea and looking at GN etc until lunchtime.

Luckygirl3 Sun 28-Jun-26 08:28:28

It's 8.25. Just supping my tea in bed and soaking up my lovely view and the breeze from the fan .. bliss!

Cabbie21 Sun 28-Jun-26 08:57:34

Around 8 am. May be earlier or a bit later, but usually before 8.30. I might be awake much earlier.

M0nica Sun 28-Jun-26 09:20:25

As early as possible, usually just after 6.00am. I am a lark, always have been, always will be. The fact that I am not working any more does not change that.

Marthjolly1 Sun 28-Jun-26 09:38:12

My alarm is set for 8am when I am usually in a deep sleep having been awake for an hour following my 4.30 call to the loo. It takes me a good half hour to rouse myself then it's a good strong black coffee before stretch, shower, dressed and ready to take on the day.

NotSpaghetti Sun 28-Jun-26 09:38:44

Gosh. So many larks!
I'm an owl.
I might occasionally wake at 6.30 but I'd definitely go back to sleep until 8am.
I have no desire to "leap out of bed". Ever!
grin

Dottydots Sun 28-Jun-26 11:14:39

Usually 7.00 am. If I sleep any longer I know I will suffer with a headache.

Elusivebutterfly Sun 28-Jun-26 11:33:50

I usually wake around 8 to 8.30. If I have had a bad night, it might be 10. Last week was around 7 due to the heat.
Too little sleep is a major migraine trigger.

Greyduster Sun 28-Jun-26 11:45:44

Unless I have a bad night, when I can wake between two and three and still be awake at six, I’m showered and ready to go by eight thirty. I will have been awake since 5.30 -600 a.m. drinking coffee and eating my ritual two digestive biscuits while scrolling through Gransnet.

Magenta8 Sun 28-Jun-26 11:46:47

I am sure I am not alone in having to take my GCs to school.
I am up and running before seven on schooldays and by seven thirty at weekends.

NotAGran55 Sun 28-Jun-26 12:16:16

I have never used an alarm since I was a teenager, as I’m awake between 5 and 6 every day, all year round, and occasionally earlier.

Erica23 Sun 28-Jun-26 12:55:12

Lark here. Asleep at 9.30 awake around 4.30 always try and go back to sleep but it never works so up at 5, It’s very annoying especially in winter.

Norah Sun 28-Jun-26 13:09:16

We wake between 5 and 6, out of bed, dress, walk dog.

As early as possible in hot weather.

Fallingstar Sun 28-Jun-26 13:24:07

We get up 7.30/8.00 can’t lie in to save my life and if I do fall asleep again I wake up feeling discombobulated.

Poppyred Sun 28-Jun-26 13:49:22

I’m an owl, so no getting up early for me. Had enough of that over the years. School, college, work, kids and more work! Wake up before 7 usually, then coffee, more coffee and iPad and book until whenever ….Bliss!

Grammaretto Sun 28-Jun-26 17:11:02

Alarm set 7.30 apart from Sunday.
I'm usually awake before the alarm.
I have something on every day so there'll be somewhere I have to be.
I don't like rushing and hate being late.

lovingit Sun 28-Jun-26 23:32:15

If it is very hot Im up and out with the dog at 7 but come winter its very different ,let the dog out for a wee then back to bed with tea and my kindle until 9 or 10. retirement gives you the joy of being able to do what you want.

Wyllow3 Mon 29-Jun-26 00:05:42

Owl.
I hate having to set an alarm.
I'm also one who loves to pop in online to greet the day.

It can be addictive...

Joanofarc99 Mon 29-Jun-26 00:06:56

Around 9...that's only because I've set my alarm for that time. If I don't set it I'd naturally sleep til1 10.

Wyllow3 Mon 29-Jun-26 00:11:15

Night owls at work still posting 😉

NotSpaghetti Mon 29-Jun-26 00:18:57

Me too. But also doing a puzzle.