Wakey Wakey?!

That was an interesting peep at early morning Blogland - all you merry band of comment writing, blog addicts cover the whole spectrum. Imagine everyone in a sleep clinic, wired up to record their first reaction on awakening! The scientists would have a field day analysing the results, I'm sure.

I started life as a definite 'lark' - up, up and away as soon as the old eyelids lifted, inbuilt clock primed the night before to wake me at specified time, so I could turn off alarm clock before it rang! It was only a back up, that clock, and in all my school and college years, I can only remember it beating me a couple of times.

Marriage brought a new set of factors into the equation. Hubby was an 'owl', to my 'lark'. With him, came an alarm clock loud and clangy enough to wake the neighbourhood. This would have been enough to cope with, but he liked to set it half and hour before he intended to get up... In his book, this constituted a 'lie in'. In my book, it constituted torture! As a result, for many years, I set my 'inner alarm' to wake me up before his. Could almost have called it enforced larkdom, but I was happy with it!

Now I'm retired and sole guardian of an electric clock/radio/alarm, I'm only too happy to have it in an'Off' position for most of the time. Thank you for all the variations you wrote about in your replies - I now feel twice as lucky! Retirement does have its advantages...

Solution?

'Come on, get up!' , the sunshine says,
'It's time to start the day!'
'Slow down, why rush?' the rain cloud drips.
'Why don't you go way?'

From North to South, from East to West
the daylight wakes us all;
but 'larks' and 'owls' have different views,
some rush while others crawl

to start their day, take up their lives,
as Earth goes spinning round.
Day and night, night and day,
it turns without a sound;

it's just our gears grind in our ears
as 'sleep' moves on to 'wake'.
If only we'd an inbuilt switch -
what difference that would make!

No sluggish, early morning head,
no wakeful, night-time blues,
a simple, on/off sleeping switch
would enable us to choose!