Now you're retired

Padstow13

Waking up around 4am is the time to get up, seize the day and get stuck in before the 'enthusiasm' (ha!) for the necessary housework begins to wane.

It is not the time for a cosy cup of tea in bed and a full English breakfast - also in bed - that my former partner fully expected.

Lazy arse. Note that his status is now "former".

Padstow! Well done for making him the former Mr Padstow. "Expected" is what my Dad did and got it too until circumstances were forced upon him. Mum did it "for a quiet life". She got away from him in the end and no more cuppas, sarnies for him.
Back to the OP - I'm a night owl married to a lark. Seems to work mostly. I get a cuppa in bed but truly I appreciate it rather than expect it.

I wake at sunrise so very early at the moment!!

Well, I wake between 5 and 6am no matter what time I go back to bed. I get up and water the garden, let the dogs out and then back to bed with a coffee and write in my journal, listen to the R4 news. Usually out of bed again between 7.30 and 8.00 am. I have no desire to have a lie in and if I’m tired later I have a nap!

I generally wake at about 7am especially in the summer when it’s light . I put the dog in the garden and take a cup of tea upstairs and watch the news , go through emails , read the times online . Walk the dog and then shower and start my day , unless I’m at the gym/ yoga , then I shower after .
After nearly 50 years of getting up early for work or getting kids to school , it’s lovely to have a leisurely start to the day .

My DH is a bit of a bully in that respect. I spent 40+ years having to get up at the crack of dawn, and now I want to spend my retirement getting up slowly, but he is an early bird and gets cross if I am still not up and dressed by 8:30.

On Thursdays he goes out, so I read a little have a leisurely shower, make a cuppa and potter about a bit. I am not really ready to go out until about 11 ish. Bliss.

I read in school with the little ones from 9, but I get up around 8:35 and I can shower, feed and be in school in 25 minutes because I put everything ready to go the night before.

Leave him to it, have a lie in, too old now to bother

Macaydia

I think i must be from another continent because i cant sleep til after midnight sometimes 4am and i wake between 10am and 1pm though i am sure technically it must actually be 6am, ive just been planted on the wrong continent !

Our daughter is exactly the same.

I think i must be from another continent because i cant sleep til after midnight sometimes 4am and i wake between 10am and 1pm though i am sure technically it must actually be 6am, ive just been planted on the wrong continent !

Waking up around 4am is the time to get up, seize the day and get stuck in before the 'enthusiasm' (ha!) for the necessary housework begins to wane.

It is not the time for a cosy cup of tea in bed and a full English breakfast - also in bed - that my former partner fully expected.

Lazy arse. Note that his status is now "former".

I’ll scroll for another 15 mins and then to sleep, I shall go 😂

Ha ha.
I couldn't do it at 7am!

(*NotSpaghetti*)

Impressed with brain use there 😉

I will not tolerate a regimental awakening of an alarm did it all my life until retirement. However if there is a family thing to do or an appointment for some reason that's different.
I go to bed late and I don't sleep very well I usually get up at around 7ish. I can not sleep in as my DH has a rigid routine that wakes me. I get up make a mug of tea prepare the dogs breakfast. I dress and decide activities for the day and prep food for meals etc. Come to think of it that sounds rather routine!

Unless going to an airport I don’t use the alarm. Generally awake about 8. Enjoy watching the news in bed with a coffee, watching my young neighbours running for the train like I used to do.

Me too. But also doing a puzzle.

Night owls at work still posting 😉

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.

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...

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

As early as possible in hot weather.

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.