Any night owls?

I have been on holiday abroad for a week. No sleep issues. My job can be stressful.

Interestingly I slept better before the perimenopause- HRT has made a difference.

Anyone else on sleeping tablets?

Night owl. I just love the peace and quiet at night.

She's a cheeky madam.

In for another shift tonight. Still getting through Runaway on Netflix. Husband has just started snoring next to me

Ooh that flapjack was amazing!! 😋

thank you 🌷

No sleep I'm afraid, was just getting drifty about 5.20 when some twat decided to noisily get in thrift car then idle it beneath my bedroom window for 30 minutes (30 bloidy minutes!!) . He was on his phone. If I'd been clothed I'd have gone down there but I wasn't & im disabled now & have a bout of vertigo, so rushing (ha ha) about doing that would have done me no favours!

then I was wound up & wide awake so my day started! The only good thing was hearing the birds who have been very quiet since it gif very cold. It's like the warmer temperature defrosted tgem !!

anyway, going to save the rest of the thread for tomorrow & TRY to get some skeep

xx

best wishes all!!

I just jacked it in at 6am and started my day. Now paying for it by almost falling asleep before dinner.

At what point do you just cut your losses and wake up? 3am? 4am? 5am? I also don’t want to wake my Cavapoo up as she needs her sleep!

Looks like I have inadvertently discovered a cure for my insomnia - start contributing to a thread where others can't sleep either!

There's a nice big piece of flapjack here for you though @JanuaryJasmine , home-made so calories don't count, obviously.

I hope you (and indeed everyone else here) managed to drift off to sleep eventually. We're retired now but I well remember that feeling of watching the clock going round and getting more and more anxious about not being able to sleep because my alarm clock would be going off at a certain time.

I hope you were able to at least park the thoughts of whatever is worrying you and get some rest 🤗

@HelenaWaiting what a beautiful dog, look at that earnest little face 😍
@Toolatetochangemyname aaargh, the little pink nose and toe beans, too cute! We lost our last little cat last year but I used to love drifting off to sleep listening to him purring.

Right, I'm going to start my day now! Cup of tea first, then feed the dogs and then the birds - there's a lovely little robin that waits in my garden from about 7.30 onwards pip-pip-pipping away.

Hope everyone managed to get a bit of sleep eventually and that your days go well 🤗

I'm still running it

www.mumsnet.com/talk/the-wide-awake-club/5471167-the-happy-place-cafe-is-open-2026?latest=1

Night owl here, not through overthinking, as I can park stuff like that. I have chronic plain with Rheumatoid Arthritis and it always decides I need painkillers at silly o’clock when it wakes me up. This week to top it off, my stomach has been really bad. I had emergency bowel surgery the end of last year and a tonne taken out. That decided this week to cause major stomach pain, so it’s been a perfect storm on my body.

I can’t even drink coffee at the moment, so I’m on Betty’s tea (how posh!! 🤣).

Still, I count my blessings, there are many worse off than me.

Its the happy place cafe :)

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/the-wide-awake-club

It was! I had a different user name then. The only resin I stopped going to the cafe was because everyone was so great to talk to it was making my sleep even words!! 🙇🏻‍♀️

Oh I'd love a piece of flapjack too!

I'm fighting the urge to go & make a hot drink & have a biscuit! Big fud to health issues I do need to fight it! 🙇🏻‍♀️

i envy your snoring DH! I also envy you having him there & your dog! I find both help me sleep!

Lots on my mind which probably isn't helping, health condition is known to cause insomnia & I already had it before (possibly/probably partly the cause of it).

I like the owls too! My friend has had one the past few nights and she's threatening to do uncharitable things to it, she's not enjoying it at all!! (in reality, she wouldn't touch a feather on it and is much more likely to put out some food for it!)

This is me most nights - I have a Cavapoo who is sleeping beautifully at my feet!

I'm awake too. A combination of pain and overthinking keeping me awake. I can't get comfy and my cats are taking up over half the bed.

Very cute and quite dignified 👍
See below for the opposite.. but still cute

I have backwards insomnia. Fall asleep in a snap, wake up at 4/5. Its like my body only wants 5 hours sleep

From time to time l have to get up in the middle of the night for video meetings with the southern hemisphere. I rarely get back off to sleep properly afterwards. I’d come to your cafe OP.

Cavapoo.

This is the latest one I think. https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4363059-Bring-us-your-worries-big-or-small-The-nightshift-will-hold-them-so-you-can-sleep?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=app_share

Am just over the lurgy, it’s horrible- what kind of dog do u have?

Pneumonia following flu. My back is killing me. I keep falling asleep exhausted at 10 and waking up at 2 in the morning. My dog is snoring her head off which is kind of adding insult to injury.