To stay up or not to stay up

I won't stay up but may put the telly on if I wake in the night. I'm English, in England but there will be changes for all of us if the Scots take that leap in the dark. When DH was often at sea I would watch general election results through the night. I was 'up for Portillo' that night. DS1 as a big teenager watched with me one time with lots of tea and chocolate biscuits and enjoyed seeing history made. (He has gone on to do a history Masters degree.)

I'll very definitely be fast asleep - barring insomnia.

The earliest I have heard that we will have a real idea is 5 a.m. It has varied from channel to channel. I don't think I will stay up - although I don't go to bed early.

Must say I would normally stay up. But daughter is visiting from the UK this week-end, arriving late pm here, and I want to be in good form for her. I guess I'll get up at the crack of dawn to come down and watch results (NO TV upstairs, by choice)- and then sneak back into bed.

I will sleep through it. I normally stay up for things like this but DH isn't well and I know he won't go to bed without me.

Surely the result won't be clear until late on Friday?

That is what I heard Ana - and that is only if there is no call for a recount!

I shall be going off to bed as normal and will catch up with the outcome when I put the tv on to a news channel.

Katek I am a Scot living in London. I fear that the duvet may be over your head for months if not years, irrespective of which way the vote goes.

I have a plumber coming early tomorrow so I will need my sleep to be up and ready for him.

I'll be setting the alarm for 4am. I want to see the results as they come in.

A bit like Rip Van Winkle, but not so long.
I wonder if you will recognise the world when you come out from under your duvet.

I am a resident Scot but I will be going to bed and may well pull the duvet over my head for the next week! I am soooo fed up with it all and just want it to be over.

We're always up early but it will be a good excuse to stick the telly on and take a large mug of tea back to bed - after letting the dogs out and feeding the chickens.

If I'm in luck DH will make me a bacon sandwich

I do not normally go to bed until 1 a.m. anyway.
I will do that and switch the TV on in my bedroom, just in case I fall asleep. My bed is more comfortable than the settee.

I can never be a***d to stay up for any election what is the point you can do nothing about the outcome. My parents did this for years when I was at home.
I find all the so called developing news about any election totally boring. They are not now about the issues at stake for the individual parties, but all the navel gazing that the pundits seem to indulge in seem to be about the process of the elections not the issues.

In these Scottish elections there seem to have been a lot of "well we are going to win" which seems to me to imply, "so why not be on the winning side."
This makes me very annoyed. I would never vote for any political party just because that might put me on the winning side.

Oh I might do whitewave I don't sleep well and often have the World Service on. I'm English but hope whatever happens it's the best result for Scotland.
Will be glad when it's over though.

I think I heard it would be Friday afternoon before we know for sure. Yes, it will be a historic vote [in the history books!] but I will still be going to bed at a decent hour.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Surely the result won't be clear until late on Friday?

Yes, kitty, I agree that we'll need our strength for the inevitable round of post mortems.

Better an early night and set the alarm for 6.30 if you need it. I don't imagine we will know much earlier as it is total numbers not councils as with General Elections and constituencies. Plus it is bound to be close. [oo-er] emoticon

My staying up all night won't make any difference to the result! If I wake up during the night I'll switch the radio on and see how things are going and no doubt fall asleep again.

No. I'll go to bed as usual and find out how it went when I get up. I never stay up for general elections either, it is too late to influence anything.

My family in USA are going to follow it all day.
I know it is an historic occasion, so why do I feel so sad?
On the other hand I know Granny23 will be happy for a yes vote, so whatever the result is all I can reiterate is please let us all pull together.

No! It won't make any difference and we''ll need all our strength for the days after!