BS: How early do you get up?

Subject: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 04:09 AM

I used to stop in my pit as long as possible. Mrs G has always been up with the lark. We are leveling out a bit as we get older but she was still up 2 hours before my 8:30 rise this morning. Weekdays I am usually up just after 6.

Purely out of interest.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 06:20 AM

Depends on how late I go to bed.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 06:22 AM

Phew. For a minute there I thought this was a thread about how long we made foreplay last...😜

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 07:01 AM

from the OP is looks like 2 hours.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 07:02 AM

And Me? Well fourplay meant just that when I was young. In hours that is!

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 07:50 AM

I remember an old round we used to sing at school:

He who would thrive must rise at five
He who hath thriven may lie till seven
He is a thriftless loon who will lie till eleven

I spent my youth as a thriftless loon; which was a bummer as I had school/work to get to. Nowadays, when I have no work to get to as long retired, Sods Law decrees that I generally wake between 0400 and 0500, and find the idea of getting up for a cup of tea more attractive than lying there with revolving depressing thoughts.

Ah well...

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 08:54 AM

I usually wake up between 5 and 6, switch on the radio with a view to getting up in a few minutes and then realise that I went back to sleep and it is now 8:30

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Raggytash
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 08:59 AM

About 1 minute before I have a pee

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 09:47 AM

The subject of this topic is about what the BS section of this site has now been reduced to - thanks to those who know perfectly well who they are, who will not brook, hear or read any other viewpoint other than their own. The BS Section of this forum has not been fit for purpose now for months - please Max put it out of its misery and kil it off and just stick to subjects suitable for discussion above the line.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST,Guess
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 09:57 AM

Dunno about getting up, but it seems the above guest has problems getting it up.

Share the joy eh?

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Raggytash
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 10:03 AM

Numerous threads have been closed or deleted precisely because of comments like the one that "guest" has voiced.

I know Dave and understand he will have started a light hearted thread just for a bit of fun.

Back to the thread any time from 5am through to 11am depending the consumption of Guinness the previous evening.

Personally I prefer early morning I can do far more first thing than I can later in the day.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 10:24 AM

Up between 5 and 6 for a Johnny Cash. Back to bed and leap from between the sheets anytime 7 to 8.
Did I really used to get up and go to work at 6 every weekday and most weekends?

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST,Uncle_DaveO
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 11:06 AM

The alarm function turns the radio on at 7:00

I crawl out of bed and stagger to the kitchen, and come
back with two coffees, with the pills my Beautiful
Wife last night put on the tray for morning consumption.
Back into bed, and listen to NPR until 8:20, when I ACTUALLY
OFFICIALLY get up, ready to drive my Downs son to work if it's
raining, snowing, or below freezing. (If it's clement
weather he walks the mile or so to work.)

That's Monday through Friday. On Saturday and Sunday,
the coffee routine is the same, but I'll stay horizontal
for a while longer.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 12:22 PM

For 40 odd years I got up between 5 and 7 to go to work and punch the time clock in various occupations. After 'retirement' I discovered that my natural schedule is to sleep from 'about' 1-2 AM to about 9-10 AM. Days when some event calls for me to be up at 5-6 AM require effort and forced early sleep, along with an alarm & radio.

I am convinced that TV, the internet and advancing age have altered my sleep patterns permanently.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Musket
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 01:54 PM

I get up most mornings. What's the story? Morning Glory....

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 08:14 PM

I take a diuretic. If early is anytime after midnight, I get up at 1:00 am, 3:30 am and 6:00 am.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Joe_F
Date: 21 Jun 15 - 08:42 PM

Nominally, I go to bed at midnight and get up at 7, when a light over my bed goes on. The amount of time I spend lying awake varies a good deal, as does the amount of my daytime napping.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 04:04 AM

Funny how some nameless idiot will try to have a go at people on even the most harmless of threads. I wonder why their comments are allowed to stay while others have theirs removed for no apparent reason.

Ho Hum.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST,Kampervan
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 04:25 AM

6am is the norm for me,for no particular reason, after that the bed doesn't feel comfortable any more.

Except,of course, if I need to be up for something special,in which case my bed suddenly becomes the comfortable place in the world and I'd give anything to sleep in.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 04:46 AM

He who would thrive must rise at five
He who hath thriven may lie till seven
He is a thriftless loon who will lie till eleven


Is it only me but the rhyme scheme seems odd. Internal rhymes line 1 & 2
but on line three one would expect it to finish with "until noon". If it is a kiddies' rhyme that is what I would expect.

Or is the wrongciter (sic) in me just being too neat and tidy?

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 04:47 AM

Hi

I have always been an early riser. As a young boy I did a paper round.I used to have to be at the shop for 05.30 every day, including Saturdays and Sundays.

I was in The Royal Air Force and in training met with loads of guys that struggled to get up early ( about 05.00). For me no problem.

Now that I am in my "senior years" I tend to stay in bed until 07.00. But in summer tend to rise around 06.00.

The real difference for me is the time we go to bed. I was always a night owl, staying up until 01.0 or 02.0.

Now we retire around 10.30pm but I tend to read for about an hour before I drop off.

Most older people have less sleep but I am the opposite.

In the Winter I also tend to have a short "nap" after lunch. I must be catching up on my lost sleep as a "youth".....lol

Cheers

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 06:09 AM

I expect a 'noon' version will probably co-exist, Mr Red. But clearly the compiler of our school songbook preferred a version that rhymed '7' & '11'. Perhaps he just preferred ♩♫ to ♩. ?

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Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Mooh
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 10:01 AM

5:30 the alarm goes off, though one of the dogs can beat it by a minute or two. Fifteen minutes later I'm at the gym. Sometimes I'm up through the night for a bathroom visit, missing a critical body part and all that goes with it.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Will Fly
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 11:13 AM

When I was working I rose every morning at 6.30 - no alarm, just a natural internal clock. (When we had the dog, it started at 6am...).

That routine lasted for 30+ years or so. I thought that, when I retired, I'd be unable to break the habit. Bugger me, on the first day of my retirement, I woke quite happily at 9! And between 8 and 9 has been the pattern for the last 6 years.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 11:58 AM

Wake at 7, tea and the paper and up at 8 usually. That doesn't count all the times in the night my old man's bladder gets me up- at least I always go straight back to sleep!
Doctor: "How are your bowels?"
"I have a regular movement every morning at 8"
"That's good"
"Nor really, I don't get up till 9".
Boom Boom

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 12:57 PM

Will [see just above] obviously has one of those 'built-in alarms'. When I was a young pre-retirement workingman, I never needed an alarm clock. I had the knock of just saying to myself as I lay down: 7 o'clock or 9 o'clock, depending on the next morning's being a working day or weekend or whatever, and would invariably wake at the time I had said to myself. I wonder if this ability has a name, or if any work has been done on this phenomenon?

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Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Raggytash
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 01:18 PM

Like you MGM I have not used an alarm clock for over 40 yars. Come to that I haven't worn a watch for over 35 years.

I would look at a clock before I went to bed and tell myself I had to be up at 5.30 or whenever and would duly wake up in plenty of time.

As to not using a watch I am seldom more than 15 minutes out if asked the time.

Being retired time is not my master, come to think of It, it never has been.

I keep naval time in my daily arrangements, if I arrange to meet at 3 I will be there at 5 to, and do use a clock occasionally to ensure this, other than that time does not figure in my world.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Will Fly
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 03:20 PM

Spot on Michael and Raggy - just what I used to do. Say to myself what time I needed to wake in the morning - and then I just did.

As for not wearing a watch... well, I have to confess my collection now numbers over 60!

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST, ^*^
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 05:09 PM

Early, now that the hot weather is here. It's the only way to do yard work and avoid heat stroke.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST,Lin
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 07:49 PM

To the Previous Guest's post:

I am quite the opposite. Now the very hot weather is here where I live, I STILL sleep in to about 10:15 or 10:30AM.

It is hard for me to sleep during the night as the weather is still so warm. I toss & turn all night, so by the time I finally fall asleep, maybe 4 or 5 AM, I need to sleep in.

Don't like to run the AC all night as the bill will be so high to run it day & night but I do sometimes use a small fan nearby.
But I am not a morning person anyway. Seems like the majority of people posting here, get up between 5 am to 7 AM.
In a way, I am surprised there are not more people who sleep in past 7:00 AM.

Glad I don't have to hear anyone getting up early here accept maybe my cat jumping into the window ledge but I go back to sleep.
I have always been a night person and never a morning person anyway.
Can never get up at 6 or 7:00 AM. Way too early for me! :-))
If I get up at 9:30AM (once in awhile) that is early for me!


The only people that I know who sleep in late are musicians.
So...I keep musician's hours even though I am not a musician.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST, ^*^
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 09:36 PM

I didn't say I *like* getting up early, but it is necessary in order to stay on top of yard work. After a day at the office the yard is too hot.

Sleeping in a hot climate is a science. The AC is set to go on if it reaches 80^o overnight, and each bedroom has a ceiling fan. I run mine on low speed. Sleeping wearing a t-shirt with just a sheet is comfortable, usually after a shower in the evening to avoid feeling sticky-sweaty.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST,.gargoyyle
Date: 22 Jun 15 - 10:40 PM

Wow...this is precisely why the lower kingdom was created.

I thrive with ten hours a day/night.

Naps ellude me.

However, working the "hippity hoppity" means the ten hours are not always contiguous.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

I am happy with Matt 3:24....but blackout drapes and ear plugs are a blessing.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Janie
Date: 23 Jun 15 - 01:19 AM

5:00 am during the work week and usually on weekends, but on weekends will often see my morning clients, load the dishwasher, pay bills, do a little housework or yardwork, then sleep the rest of the weekend away, day and night, other chores be damned.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Raggytash
Date: 23 Jun 15 - 05:07 AM

What is "yardwork" I presume it is what we in the UK call gardening. Am I correct?

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: maeve
Date: 23 Jun 15 - 05:58 AM

Correct, Raggytash- mowing the lawn, clearing weeds, planting, harvesting, adding to or using compost, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Raggytash
Date: 23 Jun 15 - 06:21 AM

Here in the UK there is a rule (unwritten) that you do not mow the lawn, trim hedges, power wash etc with mechanical tools in order that the neighbours can have some peace first things. I think it MAY be a written rule for contractors.

My neighbour would occasionally use things like angle grinders in his shed at ungodly hours e.g 6am, that made me not a very happy bunny as I didn't surface in that job until 7.30 ... ish

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Janie
Date: 23 Jun 15 - 06:34 AM

I'm not usually done with Saturday clients until 11:00am, Raggytash, and agree that it would be very inconsiderate of the neighbors to be out doing noisy work early in the morning on a weekend.

When it is fun, I call it gardening. When it isn't, I call it yardwork:>)

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Weasel
Date: 23 Jun 15 - 07:07 PM

I usually get up between 9.00am and 10.00am, but I often don't go to bed until 3.00am.

I find I work best late at night or in the early hours between 11.00 and 03.00

I feel strangely relieved to be admitting this.

Weasel

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: GUEST, ^*^
Date: 24 Jun 15 - 12:34 AM

Leaping to presumptions there?

"Yard work" means yard chores that involve hard work. Mowing. But it didn't start here until 8am, despite the fact that it could have started at 7am. Because of the neighbors.

Subject: RE: BS: How early do you get up?
From: Mr Red
Date: 24 Jun 15 - 05:59 AM

In the UK we seem to have road work that is suddenly done overnight. I actually saw some workers 8p-11 last night. It was on a busy commuter route 1 mile from the motorway junction. I think they actually get more work done that way. And there are a lot of potholes still awaiting!

Those that blame Thatcher include an American pundit speaking during her reign. Her foretold the situation and warned it would happen. He quoted Californian experience re Reagan.

History repeats itself, it has to, nobody is listening.