[Rupert the bear]

I know I'm getting on a bit, old and crumbly ! but recently due to the "alarm clock " waking me from by bed at 03:55 hrs and the insistence it conveys I have been getting up earlier than normal .
Therefore by mid afternoon I am flagging a bit and find I'm in need of 40 winks ( 2 hours ) , in years past this wouldn't have bothered me I was able to work through until late in the day.
Is this the new norm do you think ? Any of you old'uns have the same desire for a siesta post lunch ?

[Fleecewife]

Well of course     Just go with the flow (er, is that an appropriate phrase?)  Sleeping is how your body and brain repair themselves and as we get increasingly decrepit, we need a bit more repair.  Just give in to it    I bet you work far harder during the day than most folk your age.

[Rupert the bear]

Well of course     Just go with the flow (er, is that an appropriate phrase?)  Sleeping is how your body and brain repair themselves and as we get increasingly decrepit, we need a bit more repair.  Just give in to it    I bet you work far harder during the day than most folk your age.

I should have made it a little clearer , Mr alarm clock is black with two legs and yellow beak !!!
We smallholders all work harder than the unlucky folk .

[Womble]

Do you find your alarm clock still wakes you?   I find I'm now immune to it, even though we now have a really big one with a huge multicoloured tail :-)

[Fleecewife]

Well of course     Just go with the flow (er, is that an appropriate phrase?)  Sleeping is how your body and brain repair themselves and as we get increasingly decrepit, we need a bit more repair.  Just give in to it    I bet you work far harder during the day than most folk your age.

I should have made it a little clearer , Mr alarm clock is black with two legs and yellow beak !!!
We smallholders all work harder than the unlucky folk .

Ah, there was me thinking it was the small hours call of the lesser tinkle!

[Rupert the bear]

Do you find your alarm clock still wakes you?   I find I'm now immune to it, even though we now have a really big one with a huge multicoloured tail :-)

Immune, with him about 2 feet away on the window ledge, it’s him that’s immune to the waving, threats and
bribes of food.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the dawn chorus ,from a distance. At least at night his is in the tree for his “natter”
with his mates and that’s quite soporific

[SallyintNorth]

20, 40 or 80 winks in the afternoon when time and work allows is part of the daily routine for a lot of older farmers and smallholders I think.  If go to bed early enough I don't always need the nap but with your rising time I think most of us would need a power snooze at the very least!

[chrismahon]

It's perfectly normal here, especially in the heat. Standard 2 hour lunch breaks (1200 -1400) mean you can eat and then sleep before going back to work. For me 40 minutes is enough with the longer days and I only have two meals, so nothing at lunchtime. Problem is we have to be quiet in that period, so no mowing or strimming, because our neighbours are asleep and are likely to complain if woken.

[landroverroy]

"I should have made it a little clearer , Mr alarm clock is black with two legs and yellow beak !!!
We smallholders all work harder than the unlucky folk ."



Possibly you need to take charge of the situation RTB.   Can you not put out his food the night before and make it a self service buffet rather than waiter service?

[Rupert the bear]

"I should have made it a little clearer , Mr alarm clock is black with two legs and yellow beak !!!
We smallholders all work harder than the unlucky folk ."



Possibly you need to take charge of the situation RTB.   Can you not put out his food the night before and make it a self service buffet rather than waiter service?

I have placed the bird food location about 50 yards away , there is always feed for the morning , something available midday ish and the pre bed time snacks, its always worked well for everyone else. for the last 30 odd years*.except this lad and his territorial predecessors.

*It was after our first couple of years here when we had Mother in Law staying on holiday  in her campervan, she remarked on the early bird, I told her although a nice awakening just early .
At that time MiL ran a theatrical guest house and had a wide range of contacts , one evening the phone rang, she passed it to me and on the line was Pete Budd of the Wurzles and what did he sing ?  Blackbird.