where am i?

I have trouble waking up on winter mornings.

Summer I’m OK, I leave the curtains open. I wake up no problem. The sun shining into my bedroom.

Winter’s a different matter. I find it very hard to get out of bed. Perhaps it’s that I’m too tight to have the heating on for long. Anything over 20 DegC is outrageous opulence.

My niece just started selling for Avon. I looked through the catalogue. There was an alarm clock with a light. The light brightens slowly over 20 minutes to simulate a sunrise.

no no, not the cyottees!

I thought I’d give it a go and bought one. I set my clock radio to come on 10 minutes into the lighting sequence.

Two weeks on, I find I’m not waking up consistently. The light sometimes wakes me, but I can’t rely on it. The alarm with the light is not particularly harsh.

And I have to pick the thing up to find the off switch.

During the 20 minutes between the light coming on and it reaching full brightness I have been having the strangest dreams. Not that I can remember any now. And when I do wake up I am very confused.

On Sunday I overslept by two hours. It’s been years since I overslept without going to bed late.

So I have got my old alarm clock out again. It is really harsh and I have never slept through it. But I also have the lamp beside my bed.

I’m disorientated when I wake up, but the strange dreams are kind o’ fun.

ohhhh yeah

For me October is a personal landmark. My birthday marks the end of the summer and the start of a new year. The mornings are crisp and bright and full of possibilities. Who needs a New Year in the dead of winter?

One of the nicer aspects of October in southern England, is that the sun rises shortly after I do. Living on the eighth floor I get amazing views. I like to watch the sunrise whilst drinking my early morning of coffee.

This morning’s display was exceptional.

6:39 am