Getting up early

Family holidays by Lois

I really like getting up early, to be out and about as the sun lifts above the horizon, when there is that particular moment of calm before the day properly begins….Yes, honestly, I love it… the only trouble is I most often am engulfed by sleep and even if I wake early I’m sucked back into dreams.

On holiday it’s so different; I set my alarm and wake and I am awake and without much difficulty get up. I go to the window and look out on the new day, fine or dreary, it doesn’t matter, I’m on holiday! I go and make a cup of tea and on a family holiday I’m usually soon joined by my cousin, either Simon or Will depending on which family I’m away with! Cup of tea, gentle natter, then maybe reading, maybe writing, maybe just emptying the dish-washer and getting the breakfast table ready.

Up in Yorkshire, nearly three hundred miles further north, it is light when I wake, for some reason at just past four. The sky is bright behind the curtains and when I peep out the sea is flat and calm and silver, just waiting for the sun to rise. I actually d go back to bed, four is a little toooo early, but at six I’m up and with my first cup of tea – and it is warm enough to sit outside!

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  2. LFFL
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    I’m an early bird EVERY day. I think it’s because I’m so used to getting up really early for work during the week. So even on my days off, I naturally get up early too. I like it because I can get so much accomplished in the mornings. And shopping too before everyone else in the world gets up and starts crowding the stores.

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    1. Lois
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      I used to be up before 6 every morning when I worked, for years and years and years, and like you, when I wasn’t at work I would still get up early… but somehow now I no longer have a job but am at home writing I just don’t wake up!! It is so annoying!
      Glad you enjoy your early mornings!!

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