In article ,
Col writes:
I'm usually awake by 5am and in June I can be up and
bouncing off the walls at 4am or even earlier!

I love the quiet of early summer mornings. Several hours of
daylight yet there's noboby around to enjoy it. I guess if
there was it wouldn't be quiet
Watch the sunrise on June 21st? Been there, done that....

Cancel BST is what I say, I don't go to bed all that early,
say 10pm, I don't seem to need much sleeep but in June
it's still pretty light at that time.

Acoording to today's paper there's talk about bringing in Double Summer
Time, so that in summer we would be on GMT+2.
--
John Hall

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Col wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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Yes but it suits. Towns not so nice in that!
And Col - 10pm not early? I haven't been to bed as early as that since I
was a child or ill or drunk! I tend to go to bed late these days, at
about 1.00 a.m, which is also quiet,with few distractions.
Although up at about 8-8.30am (Except early golf day Wed) I do whole
heartedly agree with you and wish I did get up at dawn in the summer and
get out in the country early. In fact once we do (if?) get some decent
weather down here I will make that a late New Year's resolution, I think.

You are a night owl and I'm an early bird, that much is obvious!

Going to bed at 1am, I can't imagine staying up until such an
ungodly hour! Well actually I *can* because I have tried to modify
my sleep patterns to make them more conventional. I've forced myself to
stay up till one in the morning but still ended up waking at 5am.
But I don't get enough sleep that way and I end up feeling horribly
tired the entire dnext ay.
At the end of the day (or night) I have to listen to what my body is
saying as to when I should be asleep. I can't fight it and ultimately
I have to accept that I need go to bed early and get up early.
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I forgot to mention the post lunch or pre-dinner nap ;-)
Dave

Cancel BST is what I say, I don't go to bed all that early,
say 10pm, I don't seem to need much sleeep but in June
it's still pretty light at that time.

Acoording to today's paper there's talk about bringing in
Double Summer
Time, so that in summer we would be on GMT+2.

It'd be more to the point to have double summer time in winter.
Indoor work in the hours of darkness and leisure in the
daylight; now there's a thought!

Anne

On 20/02/2011 19:29, Col wrote:
"Dave wrote in message
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Yes but it suits. Towns not so nice in that!
And Col - 10pm not early? I haven't been to bed as early as that since I
was a child or ill or drunk! I tend to go to bed late these days, at
about 1.00 a.m, which is also quiet,with few distractions.
Although up at about 8-8.30am (Except early golf day Wed) I do whole
heartedly agree with you and wish I did get up at dawn in the summer and
get out in the country early. In fact once we do (if?) get some decent
weather down here I will make that a late New Year's resolution, I think.

You are a night owl and I'm an early bird, that much is obvious!

Going to bed at 1am, I can't imagine staying up until such an
ungodly hour! Well actually I *can* because I have tried to modify
my sleep patterns to make them more conventional. I've forced myself to
stay up till one in the morning but still ended up waking at 5am.
But I don't get enough sleep that way and I end up feeling horribly
tired the entire dnext ay.
At the end of the day (or night) I have to listen to what my body is
saying as to when I should be asleep. I can't fight it and ultimately
I have to accept that I need go to bed early and get up early.


Circadian Rhythm. I like to go to bed at about 1am and get up at about
9am.

We're all different, though we can generally be put into categories of
night owl and early bird, which reminds me that next month the starlings
start chirping at about 6am, and I'll have to get my ear plugs out, that
out of the cupboard and into my ears.

On 20/02/2011 22:26, John Hall wrote:
In ,
writes:
I'm usually awake by 5am and in June I can be up and
bouncing off the walls at 4am or even earlier!

I love the quiet of early summer mornings. Several hours of
daylight yet there's noboby around to enjoy it. I guess if
there was it wouldn't be quiet
Watch the sunrise on June 21st? Been there, done that....

Cancel BST is what I say, I don't go to bed all that early,
say 10pm, I don't seem to need much sleeep but in June
it's still pretty light at that time.

Acoording to today's paper there's talk about bringing in Double Summer
Time, so that in summer we would be on GMT+2.

That's very bad news, with the thought of chavy kids outside until
midnight or maybe even 1am !

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 at 13:49:07, Col wrote
in uk.sci.weather :

Not pointless if you are an extreme morning person like me.

Me2.

I'm usually awake by 5am and in June I can be up and
bouncing off the walls at 4am or even earlier!

My bedroom faces NE, so not only do I get early light, I also get early
roasting in hot summer weather.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On Feb 20, 1:49*pm, "Col" wrote:
Nick wrote:
On Feb 20, 11:37 am, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Unbelieveably dark day here. It's hard to tell if it's still dawn or
dusk has come early. The drizzle isn't helping the dreary outlook
either. It's just relentless here. Surely there must be some sun
this week? Dave,
S.Essex

Your easterlies are my southwesterlies and vice versa according to
reports on here it seems ! ;-) So probably better for you this week,
but hopefully not too bad here as the pressure is fairly high.

Cloudy (mostly) but not dull today - indeed it seemed to get light
very early, though the mornings are drawing out fast now. Indeed, by
the end of this week we're already into "pointless" (pre-7am) morning
daylight - maybe the clocks should go forward on the first, not the
last, Sunday in March...

Not pointless if you are an extreme morning person like me.

Therein lies the difference I guess - I'm not an extreme evening
person (usually in bed by midnight) but I find the early mornings not
easy - I cannot make myself eat before about 8am for example. On the
other hand I do appreciate the hour we're in now being sunny rather
than this godawful gloomfest we've got today...

I'm usually awake by 5am and in June I can be up and
bouncing off the walls at 4am or even earlier!

I'm often awake early in the summer but it's the unfeasibly-early
sunrise which causes it ! :-)
I love the quiet of early summer mornings. Several hours of
daylight yet there's noboby around to enjoy it. I guess if
there was it wouldn't be quiet
Watch the sunrise on June 21st? Been there, done that....

Cancel BST is what I say, I don't go to bed all that early,
say 10pm, I don't seem to need much sleeep but in June
it's still pretty light at that time.

Would be ok in June, but imagine how the character of say April and
September would change if sunset came an hour earlier! An April with
it starting to go dark by 7pm would feel completely different, and not
in a good way...

Nick

On Monday 21 Feb 2011 08:51, Nick scribbled:

I'm often awake early in the summer but it's the unfeasibly-early
sunrise which causes it ! :-)

I'm often awake early at any time of the year but that's more to do with
advancing years and unfeasibly early calls of nature. :-(

--
Graham Davis, Bracknell
It was raining cats and dogs and I fell in a poodle. [Chic
Murray(1919-1985)]

On Sunday 20 Feb 2011 22:27, Dave Cornwell scribbled:

I forgot to mention the post lunch or pre-dinner nap ;-)

Or, if one was from a different class or geographical background, post-
dinner or pre-supper nap. ;-)

--
Graham Davis, Bracknell
It was raining cats and dogs and I fell in a poodle. [Chic
Murray(1919-1985)]

On 20/02/2011 17:17, Will Hand wrote:

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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Unbelieveably dark day here. It's hard to tell if it's still dawn or
dusk has come early. The drizzle isn't helping the dreary outlook
either. It's just relentless here. Surely there must be some sun this
week?
Dave,
S.Essex


Dave you should try living on Dartmoor?

Dense fog today all day (50 metres) in Haytor.
Everywhere is sopping wet, even vertical surfaces.
It is not unusual and you have to get used to it up here, at any time of
year!

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)

Fog is not too bad to take phtographs with a flash, as the water
droplets acts like microscopic reflectors, so I don't need to power up
the flash that much.

Better than the cold like yesterday with temp only at 4c. I was taking
photos around Walsall, with two cameras a medium format and a 35mm
format. My 35mm camera with it's all electronics finally had enough
after 2 hours with the battery drained. Though my old mechnical medium
format camera was still working well. And they call it progress !

Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
175m asl