What time do you get up?

6.45 wake up- it’s automatic. Cup of tea, shower and ready to go -even if it’s not a work day. At weekends I don’t get up then but read or listen to an audiobook.
The best thing is a holiday with a pool somewhere warm, so the early rising can be rewarded with a swim.

After years of getting up at 6.00, I still tend to wake up then. Hubby insists that I stay in bed till 7.00am, as neither of us are great sleepers, and often wake in the early hours - sometimes not getting back to sleep at all. We don't need alarm clocks, unless for some reason, we have to get up extra early!

Guess I could be called a seasonal sleeper. Spring/Summer with the longer daylight hours sees me up and active by six at the latest. In Winter I seem to automatically hibernate and arouse around nine. If the weather is total rubbish, I simply coorie in and stay put with iPad for entertainment. Ain't retirement grand?!!

Lots of early birds around, I love to lie in until about 9am, but this morning got up at 7am!! had to be at my physio at 8:30 and needed to drive there,had a little snooze this afternoon and look forward to my lie in as usual tomorrow.The days here are dark and drab,I dont feel the need to get up early in the winter.I love my bed at this time of year.

How I envy those retired I have to be up at 6 weekdays but although I wake around the same time weekends stay in bed reading or watching tv until around 9

Saggi, WOW !I get up around 7 sort my cat out then out to meet my neighbour at 7.45 until 9 when we go for a walk Monday to Friday.I stay in bed a bit later on Sunday.

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Up by 0620, on the road by 0720, at my desk by 0800 smartly dressed, breakfasted and having left a tidy house. Shame it can sometimes go downhill from there.

I haven't read the whole thread, but guess I'm one of the earliest. Usually up at 5.30am.
Toilet, coffee. and feet up in the recliner for morning prayers.
I go to bed early too - off soon.
At my age I can't cope with activities in the evening, especially in these dark winter days.

Another early bird. I don’t like these dark mornings as I take the dog out at 7.30 and have usually been up a couple of hours at least.
Once it’s dark in the evening I don’t like going out. I don’t feel safe crossing the roads as I can’t see very well and prefer snuggling under a woolly blanket to a social life.

Me too watermeadow.

Biovea Uk sell Melatonin gummies on line. Not sure you can get them anywhere else because melatonin is normally prescription only in the UK. Health stores in the US are awash with melatonin products - sweets, drinks, pills, childrens pills etc to buy over the counter. My son, who lives in America brings them over for me. I use with caution. There is presumably a reason why we cant buy them here and people tend to be more gung ho in the States about medication in general.

7.30 am during the week and 8.00 am at weekends.

Bed at 1am, up 10am, always been like this.

I've been off work for 6 months after having surgery but still got up every morning at 4.45 am . ( but needed an afternoon nap and an early bed ! ) Today , I'm going to start a rehab plan of no afternoon nap and increased activity with fewer tea breaks !

I was always up at 5 and would be working by 5.30 (I worked from home so would still be in my pj's for some time )Now I'm retired I'm still up at 5 as my cat has the same body clock and wants feeding. If husband isn't working I sit at my desk messing around checking on here and FB and sometimes watching YouTube crafting videos. The days he is I'm showered and dressed by 7.30 and ready to go. I take after my dad - he was always up at 4.30 and out with the dog.

I've been on Thryoxine for years and have never taken my tablets before breakfast - now I have others to take too I just take the whole cocktail together.

I wake up/get up at whatever time my OH rings from his NH to say he is being poisoned! Could be any time; but tends to be early.

Usually about 7.15 or 7.30. DH has an internal alarm clock and always gets up around then - even when we're abroad!!! It's most annoying when we're on holiday in a hotel room as he gets up and bimbles about into the bathroom putting lights on etc!!!

When I worked full-time, I had to be up at 3.30am so now I'm not working you'd think I'd still get up early?

Not a chance!

Up at about 9.30am most days (thanks to a nerve damage drug that causes sleepiness) and generally in bed by 10.30pm. As much as I try, I can't nap during the day.

I do miss the peacefulness, stillness and the general beauty of the world at stupid o'clock though!

I seldom go to bed before midnight or 1am, let the dog out when I hear DD leave for work about 7am, and we go back to bed until between 9 and 10am except the day I look after DGS, and the day I work the morning instead of the evening. I can easily sleep until 11am but will then be flustered that there's no time do anything but have breakfast (brunch?) and walk the dog before I have to go to work at 4pm.

I'm a lark. Up between 6.00am and 7.00am, any later and it upsets my whole day. I am in bed between 10.00 - 10.30.

Yesterday it was 3am as I was so excited at my proposed day out to the thermal pools.

Usually, it's around 6am.

0400 today !

I am up and half way through a mug of tea, having eaten 2 brazil nuts and a banana. This is pretty usual for me

Awake at 4.30 today.So wanted a lie in because it's a christmas shopping today with ddil and then a treat of afternoon tea ☺.Think i must be too excited.