Don't you just hate that...

[Motherwoman]

Funny old night, himself got out of bed around 2.30am and realised that the electric trip had gone, so goes down to the fuse box and turns it back on and all fine. Goes back to bed and just before 3am the phone rings, don't get there in time and there's no message and number witheld. Great, now I'm worrying about elderly parents... back to bed and about 3.15am the outdoor security light goes off. We both get out of bed to spot the ruddy feral cat casually wandering about the garden. That's it I'm wide awake now. Downstairs for a cup of tea, watch some rubbish telly (and there really is rubbish telly at 4am!) So far I've cleaned the bathroom and caught up on some work filing, I shall be power napping about 1pm I think
Himself? Oh he went back to sleep...

MW

[Ricard with an H]

(and there really is rubbish telly at 4am!)

MW

Really ? Didn't it used to be naked-rumpy-pumpy, and that sort of thing ?

On a serious note, I know exactly how you feel. When our ridge tiles blew off over the Christmas/New-years break I lost so much sleep at night through worry about the roof that I wandered around in a grumpy daze during the day for four days.

Rather than a power-nap, it takes a solid 12 hour shift in bed for me to catch-up if I get disturbed by my dog barking about the fox or badgers outside.

[old codger]

I sometimes wake up early in the morning but all I think of is I wander if OH is over the Lottie after my eggs..I know he is an early morning worker,they say the early bird catches the worm.

[Primrose]

Oh there,s nothing worse than that unexpected phone call in the middle of the night. We had it with elderly parents too and it really sends your heart racing and makes it impossible to get back to sleep.

We have a phone number that is only digit away from a local cab company,s number and sometimes get misdialled phone calls in the early hours from over imbibed individuals wanting a taxi. One night we got three haranguing phone calls from the same individual who had obviously plugged our wrong number into the memory of his phone demanding to know us when his taxi would turn up. After the third call my husband told him it would take at least 40 minutes. Thankfully at that point he must have given up and called another firm . Or perhaps he,s still there waiting?

[robo]

Its not only 4 a.m. the telly's rubbish its all day and night as well

[oldherbaceous]

Maybe i better not set up a stall selling eggs, now then, sounds as if Codger is on to me.

I'm nearly always awake half the night, although i do have a lot to think about.

[Westi]

OH

Is that thinking about saving the planet, how your going to do in your quantum physics exam, creating a cure for all ills - or whether that fox outfit will really fool OC?

Westi

[peter]

Westi, have you not heard of the "Bedfordshire Bigfoot"?

It is a rare beast, whose principal diet is nesting birds and their eggs. Mostly nocturnal and partly arboreal, some are rumoured to have stowed away in the rigging of the Mayflower, thus giving rise to the more widely known "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch"rof North America. More self-effacing than their American descendants the "Beddies", to give them their local dialect name, still cling on in the area around Whipsnade. Sadly the London Zoological Society regard them as a bit of a pest due to their nighttime raids on the penguin enclosure.
The ZSL are however quite keen to start a Beddie breeding programme and have offered some older locals a substantial reward if they can capture, unharmed, a breeding pair.

Local amateur wildlife expert Mr Oscar Curdedger was quoted as saying, "Theres only one way to trap a Beddie and that's with a shed full of laying hens. They gorge on the eggs, top em off with a tasty bird and then doze off. Gotcha, just lock the shed door and claim the reward, the ZSL'll haul em away."

[Catherine]

I have had fybromyalgia for many years, when stressed I start by waking up at 4am and not going back to sleep then 3am then 2am then not sleeping. So I read, wander, quietly!! round the house trying to do quiet jobs, looking on the internet but never, never going to watch the tv. as that is the only thing that will wake my oh. In the summer I drive very early up to the base of Pendle Hill and try to get up there before the sun comes up.

[oldherbaceous]

Thank you all for the laughs, i thought it was just me that had the vivid imagination.

But on a serious note, i do sympathise with anyone that has a broken nights sleep. I'm am very lucky in the fact it doesn't leave me feeling to rough next day.

I suppose it's the years of practice i've had over the years.

[Motherwoman]

I did power nap to the tail end of Bargain Hunt, don't think I missed much.

Much intriqued by the tale of the Beddies, could my feral cat be one in disguise? Should I lay a trap for sock wearing ones? A breeding pair could cause much interest at London Zoo...

Richard, I didn't notice any rumpy-pumpy on the TV at 4am... do you get different channels?

MW

[Catherine]

[Geoff]

Have you never seen the Welsh version of Shaun the Sheep, MW?

[Ricard with an H]

Richard, I didn't notice any rumpy-pumpy on the TV at 4am... do you get different channels?

MW

I'm going on hearsay/anecdote, please don't think for a minute that I would be interested.

I was thinking about a quote from Kingsley Aimis, (Spelling ?)

"Once I had lost my libido I realised it had been like being chained to an idiot for 50 years".

[peter]

Doesn't have to be early morning tv to involve sheep, or cows even, perhaps the most bizarre news story of January is this.