The Retirement Thread

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classic33

Leg End Member
Seeing a corncrake is quite a feat ! I well remember during a touring trip of the Western Isles repeatedly stopping at clumps of vegetation from which one was calling loudly but never did we ever see one.
Almost in the center of the field, but I'd an elevated position on private land, Same person owned the hayfield, the rest had to stand at the roadside.
 

Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
We** saw a nightingale when in France. We could hear it clearly it the thick bushes. We slowly searched and eventually we saw it.
**'we' being MrsD........I, sadly, didn't see it:sad:
 

Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
Well this is very late for me. I am normally asleep for 2100 having had several hours during the day. No idea what has happened but I have not slept today.
Will be interesting to see what state I am in the morning:wacko:
Anyway......I wish you all a good nights sleep.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Well this is very late for me [~22:40]. I am normally asleep for 2100 having had several hours during the day.
You seem to normally wake up at about 06:30? That would be 9.5 hours sleep plus those 'several', so you must actually be sleeping about 12 hours a day? That sounds like an awful lot of sleep! :eek:

I reckon if I added up all the time I sleep scattered through the day it would be 5-8 hours depending on what I have been doing.

I haven't gone to bed at 21:00 since I was 11 years old, apart from when I have been desperately ill.

When I used to do my cycling holidays in Spain, I had more sleep than usual because I was getting tired from doing lots of riding a lot (averaging roughly 100 (often hilly/mountainous) km a day for 2 weeks) at higher speeds than I normally did. Even then though, I think it was only about 8 hours a night.

It is strange how different people's needs are... I think I would feel pretty rough if I tried to sleep more than 8 or 9 hours a day.

Anyway, I suppose it will be Wednesday morning by the time that you read this. I hope that you DID manage to eventually get a good sleep.
 

rustybolts

pedalling tediously
Location
Ireland
Lovely mild morning , Christmas 24 days countdown , have a lovely day folks !
 

Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
You seem to normally wake up at about 06:30? That would be 9.5 hours sleep plus those 'several', so you must actually be sleeping about 12 hours a day? That sounds like an awful lot of sleep! :eek:

I reckon if I added up all the time I sleep scattered through the day it would be 5-8 hours depending on what I have been doing.

I haven't gone to bed at 21:00 since I was 11 years old, apart from when I have been desperately ill.

When I used to do my cycling holidays in Spain, I had more sleep than usual because I was getting tired from doing lots of riding a lot (averaging roughly 100 (often hilly/mountainous) km a day for 2 weeks) at higher speeds than I normally did. Even then though, I think it was only about 8 hours a night.

It is strange how different people's needs are... I think I would feel pretty rough if I tried to sleep more than 8 or 9 hours a day.

Anyway, I suppose it will be Wednesday morning by the time that you read this. I hope that you DID manage to eventually get a good sleep.
Woke at 0500. Lay awake till 0600 and got up.
I have always slept well but Covid has left me (both of us) with terrible fatigue.
Some days I am up for maybe 2 hours then back in bed for 3 hours.......and I sleep, heavily. Not nice but I can't fight it.
 

Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
I have risen!

Won't be about much, if at all, today. Down to my chums on the Isle of Grain for lunch, onwards to the Kent downs in the afternoon, and then into Hythe for business in the evening. Then home tomoz.
I thought no one lived on the isle of Grain as its all marsh land.
Never been there, its just something I recall reading.
Supposed to be a paradise for bird watchers though.
 
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