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Sun rising too early - AIBU

89 replies

jackdaw141 · 10/07/2020 13:21

AIBU? This has been going on for the last 12 weeks or so. The sun rises so early - this morning it was up at 4.45 ffs.

Spreading its rays against the window, bouncing around off the walls and the ceiling when I am trying to sleep. Is it too much to ask that it stays below the horizon until 8am during weekdays but 9am at the weekend and bank holidays. I get up early and am normally up by 6am, but that's not the point. If I wanted to lie in I couldn't with all that light going on. I admit it is not all year round, but even so day in, day out it's a bit bloody much for months on end.

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Blackberrybunnet · 10/07/2020 16:00

It’s the bloody birds tweeting about at sunrise that gets my goat.

HowFastIsTooFast · 10/07/2020 16:01

YAANBU at all. It's a bloody disgrace.

itchyfinger · 10/07/2020 16:02

Log it with 101, and while you're at it can you mention the lavendar oil baby wipes?

TaxTheRatFarms · 10/07/2020 16:04

[quote jackdaw141]@Smallsteps88 But we do not have any glass in our windows. We just have like openings every now and then. In fact it is more that the house is just open and built of pillars and things.[/quote]
Are you a medieval king? If so, have you tried stuffings the openings with peasants?

Flipflopsaga · 10/07/2020 16:10
Grin
jackdaw141 · 10/07/2020 16:13

@TaxTheRatFarms I make no apologies but I am not going to talk about my status, nor the nature of my home nor my staff on an anonymous internet chat forum. Especially when I have a migraine.

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WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 10/07/2020 16:20

I can't help thinking how different this thread would have gone if the OP had been complaining about the Moon being too dark Hmm

The way I see it, you have two realistic options:

  1. Build yourself a colossal, miles-wide catapult, pull Jupiter down with an extremely-long super-super-super-sized fishing net and then blast it at the Sun, to knock it a bit to the side, where its rays won't shine so intensely on where you are;
  1. Get some blackout curtains from Dunelm or possibly a sleep eye-mask from Poundland.

Entirely up to you to decide: there are pros and cons to both options.

Mycatismadeofstringcheese · 10/07/2020 16:23

Tell the sun that rising in the morning is an invitation, not a summons.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 10/07/2020 16:23

I make no apologies but I am not going to talk about my status, nor the nature of my home nor my staff on an anonymous internet chat forum.

Do you actually want us to be in a position where we can offer you practical, personally-tailored suggestions as to how you can move or turn down the Sun or not? We'll at least need a postcode to ensure accurate information.

Mycatismadeofstringcheese · 10/07/2020 16:23

Or you could just tell it, “This doesn’t work for us”.

Mycatismadeofstringcheese · 10/07/2020 16:25

I know this is really outing, but is your house east facing?

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 10/07/2020 16:26

You don't have a Sun problem - you have a lying-in problem.

soberfabulous · 10/07/2020 16:27

I have black out curtains and wear a sleep mask for precisely this reason!

Sexykitten2005 · 10/07/2020 16:32

I swear a woman in Spain claimed ownership of the sun. IIRC a group of skin cancer sufferers tried to sue her. Find out if she still owns it and send her a cease and desist letter, she’s definitely harassing you with it.

ListeningQuietly · 10/07/2020 16:35

Move your bed to the north wing of the castle and all will be well

LoudPurringPussy · 10/07/2020 16:39

@Smallsteps88

The sun has got has hat on, Hip hip hip hooray! The sun has got his hat on And he’s coming out to play. Grin

Write “FUCK OFF” on your window in lipstick.

Write FUCK OFF on your window in shit. Better still write SHIT on your face with shit. That’ll learn it.
FartingInTheFence · 10/07/2020 16:44

The sun rises so early - this morning it was up at 4.45 ffs

Newsflash!

The sun doesnt rise.

The Earth rotates. Big difference.

AWiseWomanOnceSaidFuckThisShit · 10/07/2020 16:47

Tell him to fuck off. I hear he goes by the name of Ray

bettsbattenburg · 10/07/2020 16:49

YABU, you should embrace the moment and set your alarm for about 4.15am and then you can enjoy the dawn chorus as well.

I am most aggrieved that the birds have moved the start of the dawn chorus from 3.30am to 4.15am as now I'm bored for 45 minutes waiting for them to start. They have also got quieter which I can't remember agreeing to.

MulticolourMophead · 10/07/2020 16:54

Sleep masks work for me.

Coronabegone · 10/07/2020 16:55

Ah just twigged the OPs name...... trip trap!

Crosswithlifeatm · 10/07/2020 17:01

What sun?

maddiemookins16mum · 10/07/2020 17:02

Don’t worry Op, in a few months it will be dark from 4pm until 8am the next morning.

FlamedToACrisp · 10/07/2020 17:07

YABVVU OP, the Sun is simply trying to stop your washing being darked on so spiders don't wipe their willies on it!

jackdaw141 · 10/07/2020 17:10

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

I make no apologies but I am not going to talk about my status, nor the nature of my home nor my staff on an anonymous internet chat forum.

Do you actually want us to be in a position where we can offer you practical, personally-tailored suggestions as to how you can move or turn down the Sun or not? We'll at least need a postcode to ensure accurate information.

Postcode is SP4 7DE
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