Now you're retired

Alison333

'Now you're retired' Why the assumption that Grans must be retired? I'm aged 70+ and run my own business.

I can't believe I'm the only Gran on here who hasn't retired?

👋 still working here.

Alison333

'Now you're retired' Why the assumption that Grans must be retired? I'm aged 70+ and run my own business.

I can't believe I'm the only Gran on here who hasn't retired?

No you're not the only one who hasn't retired 👋

We take it in turns to get up at 6.30 as we have a dog. I'm usually out the house by 7.45 to swim any week day.

Sallywally 1 I have one of those too , it’s a nightmare! We have started swimming 3 times a week but we have to go at 7 am so means getting up at 6 😡 he feels he is losing a lot of the day if he is up after 6.30 , god help us! But I look at the other side I would rather that than not have that every morning

I go to bed at 10 pm and read until between 11.30 and midnight. I usually pop to the loo around 5 am and doze until around 8 am. I like to be showered, dressed and downstairs by 8.30 am. OH has his own room. He goes to bed after 11 pm and is up and down throughout the night. He snores, has restless legs syndrome and needs the loo frequently. He is usually downstairs by 10.30 am.

The only time I eat in bed is if I’m unwell. For my 60th, younger son bought me one of those special trays with collapsible legs.

Doesnt matter what time I go to bed or fall asleep I still wake for the loo around 2-3am. By the time I have fed my hungry cat & got back to bed it can be anywhere up to 6.30 before my brain shuts off again. Of course then sense tells me get up & start the day but oh no sleep grabs me & I wake again around 8.30-9am wishing I did not have to get up but feeling guilty if I do not get up. By then anyway Cookie has decided he is starving as he has no wet food down & biscuit is not breakfast! So I do as he tells me ( he is boss ) & start the day with his breakfast! I’ve forgotten what it was like to sleep all night! My Nan used to have similar problems & said it was one of the ‘pleasures’ of getting old but that it beat the alternative 😂

I’m an owl. So 9am to 10am. Even later if I want to and no going anywhere. Don’t go to bed/sleep till 2/3am.

I wake hopefully around 7, (sometimes earlier) make myself a cuppa and take it back to bed, DH is very restless during the night and
likes to lie in, so unless we have an appointment we usually get up around 8.30-9.00. I like to scroll FB on my phone and send a WhatsApp to our DD and DGS, saying good morning.

First there was a rustle,
A floating in the blue,
The curly, flying, magic dot,
Came darting into view!
So raise a glass of grammar,
Let all your shouting cease,
The errant little squiggly mark
Has brought the world sweet peace.

Around 8.30

Sallywally1

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.

Blimey, your DH sounds like mine, except mine is up by about 5; reckons I "waste half the day" by sleeping in til 8 but as I point out to him, I am not then falling asleep during the day/early evening whereas he does - frequently
I have been retired just over 2 months and no regrets

'Now you're retired' Why the assumption that Grans must be retired? I'm aged 70+ and run my own business.

I can't believe I'm the only Gran on here who hasn't retired?

I wish I needed an alarm to wake me as I have an inbuilt one, unfortunately.
My brain usually pings into action between five and six am.
I absolutely do not want to wake that early, but have no choice.

I lay there for goodness knows how long before realising that’s it’s no good, I may as well get up and have a cup of tea and take it back to bed.
Usually around eight am.

NotSpaghetti

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!

Glad it’s not just me 🤭 I’ve never been a lark - definitely an owl and I’m enjoying being able to get up whenever I like now I’m retired

We have morning green tea around 6.30, scour the BBC news, read a book for an hour and get up at 8am on most days.

I'm more of an owl than a lark. I'm semi retired but usually set my alarm for 7.45. Generally wake up just before the alarm goes off but not always.

In current hot weather I'm finding it difficult to sleep- On Saturday night could not sleep at all- so I read for a bit then got stuck into a Netflix series and didn't sleep at all throughout the night or yesterday until dropping off last night around 11pm. Slept through till 7.45 😴😊

I haven’t retired and have to wait until I am 67 in five years.

I’m seasonal, I get up early in the summer, to get the housework done so I can get outside or on with other things. In the winter I get up, let the dog out and feed him, then have my first coffee in bed.

Newly retired just get up when I wake up.

When I first retired I was still getting up early to walk my dogs. They looked at me sideways sometimes waking them for walks. After 6 months or so if I woke around 7am I'd make a coffee and go back to bed u til the dogs wanted out. Now there's just me and new DH and sometimes we don't wake until after 9am, then have coffee in bed, discuss our plans for the day and actually get up around 10/10.30 am. Once up we usually go for a walk and enjoy another coffee and sometimes brunch out. Retirement is the best job I've ever had 😊

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.