Shower and shave the night before.
5:15 Get up
5:16-5-29 brush teeth, splash face, get changed, spray sure on and question life.
5-30-5-40 walk to work
About 8 mins from getting out of bed to getting in the car.
Shower at 10.30am in gym.
6:30ish Missus gets up, I listen to her getting ready while I snooze
7:00 Alarm
7:00 - 8:35 Coffee, Toast, then morning ablutions, interspersed with procrastination. It's mainly procrastination. This morning it was watching 'This is Peaty' on Youtube.
8:35 - Time to leave. Blunder round the house looking for bike kit and cursing. Usually a missing arm warmer, glove, or bike lock key. Leave the house when I have finally got it together.
25 minutes of nailing myself on the bike.
9:15ish Work.
7.00 first alarm, ignore it
7.15 second alarm, get up, make breakfast, take it back to bed, catch up on news and forums
7.50 sh!t/shower/shave
8.20 make pack lunch, leave for work
8.45 start work
I have a regime.. I de-cloak when I get in the night before, then set out new clean Shirt, get another Suit out, new Tie, clean undies then hang that lot up whilst I shower.. This leads to me getting out of bed the following morning, showering and re-cloaking in 15mins and out thas door like.. 😀
6.50 - alarm goes off
7.05 - rush out of bed
7.06 - wake kids up, tell them we've overslept again and they need to get moving
7.07 - bathroom
7.10 - get dressed
7.11 - help kids to get washed and dressed - usual arguments about not liking any of their clothes, school uniform suddenly being too small, etc
7.35 - load kids into wife's car
7.40 - drive to work
8.20 - arrive at work.
...and relax.
Depends whether Susanna Reid is on Breakfast or not....
6:00 Wake. Read nuclear physics magazines and plan world domination.
6:15 2nd personality wakes. shower while whistling cheery tune
6:30 exit shower and put away magazines ?housemate? has left out [odd]
6:32 toaster/kettle on
6:33 [switch]
6:34 Head down to lair.
6:35 Warm up centrifuge, acid bath and activate drone scouts.
6:38 Observe mortal enemies and work on second fission stage drawings .
7:00 Head back up.
7:01 [Switch]
7:02 eat cold toast [odd], drink cold instant coffee [odd], read grauniad
7:20 notice time and am surprised
7:30 [switch]
7:33 Incognito browsing, switch to secure network, TOR. Brief henchmen via scrambled comms.
8:30 Head back up.
8:31 [Switch]
8:32 look for rest of breakfast, always seem to eat it in a daze.
8:33 notice time, panic. should leave at 8:30
8:40 exit house with wet hair, loo roll stuck to feet and half my lunch
9:05 arrive work, make excuses set the tables out for first customers in organic cafe.
various times during day - puzzled by nods and winks from men in trenchcoats who keep passing the organic cafe.
...i never seem to have enough time to do anything and I always set off alarms in airports. very puzzled.
5:50 yoga
7:00 Alarm, light boxes and Radio 2
7.30 Go downstairs, feed cats, make tea for Wife and I
7.35 Back to bed with tea and cats
8.00 Shower
8.15 Breakfast
8.35 Clean teeth
8.40 Ride bike to work
9.00 Arrive at work
7:35 Drag my ass out of bed, brush teeth & quick wash
7:40 Leave for work
7:50 At work, sit at desk, try and wake up
Even though I'm in work before 8 I don't really wake up until about 10:30.
6.45 get up.
6.50 in shower
7.15 iron shirt
7.30 leave house
7.35 join rat race
8.45-9 arrive at work.
on a good day
6.15 alarm
6.30 out with dog
7.00 on bike
7.30 get to work, shower, hair wash
8.00 at desk
Something like this....
0700 Alarm (radio)
0710 Alarm (buzzer)
0730 Finally vacate bed
0750 On bike
0820 Arrive at office bike shed
0825 Fire up laptop, pick up shower kit/clothes
0830 In shower
0845 At desk (coffee/breakfast consumed at some point)
I'm shocked at the complete absence of slackers posting on here so far.Probably all still in bed 😉
tlr - MemberDepends whether Susanna Reid is on Breakfast or not....
Need to factor in an additional 5 minutes if so? 😉
It's funny how much it can vary with the weather. If it's bright and sunny outside, everything seems to happen faster; if it's grey and overcast, everything's in slow-mo.
7:30 Alarm
7.40 on bike
8:00 Start work
Wake up about 9ish
Grab a coffee
Start work
Usually have a shower at some point
03:45 Alarm goes off
03:50 Drag ass out of bed
03:52 Jump in shower
04:05 Get dressed
04:10 Have breakfast
04:20 Leave for work
04:30 Arrive work car park
04:45 Go through Security checks
05:00 Start work
[i]Shower and shave the night before.[/i]
Yuk, I couldn't go to work without having a shower in the morning.
06:00 Alarm
06:02ish Shave
06:15 On bike
07:30 Arrive at work; quick shower
07:45 Desk
03:00 1st alarm goes off, press snooze
03:15 2nd alarm goes off, press snooze
03:30 3rd alarm goes off, Get up
wash reluctantly, get dressed, make coffee
03:45 check ebay and pistonheads and ebay
04:00 in the car and off down the m11
04:35 arrive at work
04:45 check singletrack for sale
15:15 leave work
15:45 get home
15:50 fall asleep in armchair
kinhell gotta go i should have left work 2 mins ago 🙂
I work nightshift now so it varies. Used to be down to a fine art when I started at 6.45 though. Alarm was 5:52, needed to be on train station by 6:09. There was about 30 seconds spare for things going wrong. Amazingly in 3 years it only went wrong 4 or 5 times.
No-one has mentioned a "clash of clans" attack.. surely everyone has to fit one of these in before work?
No-one has mentioned a "clash of clans" attack
I thought this may have been a euphemism for something I and the missus rarely do.
6.20: My alarm clock goes off - the alarm consists of the neighbour's daughter arriving to park her car outside parents house so I get woken by shouts of "back a bit! turn yer wheel! well done luv!"
The daughter is 37. She's needed the same instructions every weekday for the 6 years I've lived in that house. 🙄
6.30: Get up, have breakfast
6.50: Put on whatever bike kit the weather dictates
7.00: Pack work clothes, lunch etc into rucksack
7.10: Ride to work
8.15 ish: Arrive at work, shower, change
8.40: Office.
Up, showered, dressed, teeth brushed and out the door in 20 minutes.
7.50 Alarm
8.00 Other alarm
8.10 Alarm that I actually pay attention to
8.11 Minimum possible morning cleaning stuff
8.30 Make breakfast and lunch
8:45 get on bike
8:50 get off bike
8:51 get to office, change
9:00am go on STW.
What time do all you early risers get to bed?
c30 minutes. Maybe 35 if I have breakfast at home.
Mrs North, Mme North and I are all terrible in the mornings. For me and Mme North, this is explained by being nightowls. For Mrs North, she can go to bed early, have 12 hours sleep and still feel ropey in the morning.
Alarm went off 7am this morn , was on bike at 7.10am and at work at 7.20am to clock on at 7.30am bollocks to spending life on trains or in cars or fackin shaving!
Quite intersting reading! pottering /efficient schools of thought. Definitely more towards the efficient myseld.
6.50 alarm
6.55 up
7.00 cup of tea and cereal
7.10 brush teeth, maybe a poo
7.15 kiss kids/ wife goodbye
7.18 on bike
7.35 at work - get changed
7.45 coffee, work begins.
Unless I'm doing a 1pm-10pm shift. Then it's..
Get up whenever. Waste the morning faffing about. Get on bike for work 1240. Arrive 1250. Clock in at 1
Mon - wed
6am up dress walk dog.
6:30 breakast coffee
6:45 shower dress
7:00 leave
7:45 arrive at work.
Thurs and fri similar but dont walk dog.
630-645 wake up
Put kettle on and radio
Shower
Dress haphazardly
Play guitar or read for 30 mins
Get to work by whatever method I feel like
Arrive at work no later than 840.
Import and price and sort stuff out till 1730
Other stuff.
3.00am - 7:30am: Get woken up by toddler(s) wanting to get up. CBEEBIES on
8:00am: Feed toddlers breakfast, throw dog out for a wee
8:30am: Panic that it has got that late and rush out the house to get to work!
2:00pm - 5:00pm: Get home, have a shower, feed boys etc
12.00am: Bed and wonder why I am so knackered!
0500 - Alarm
0510 - shit, have a ciggie
0520- breakfast
0530 - get dressed, take locks off bike
0550- Have another cig, put bike gear and warm bike
0600- set off
0630 - Arrive, another ciggie, brew up, make some more toast
0700 - Handover (work)
1430/1500 - Get the frig out of work before i'm pestered into doing something else at work.
Up at 5:30, shave, teeth, coffee, out the house by about 5:50.
Get to work about 6:50, poo, shower, change and that. At my desk usually by about 7:15.
if I can't sleep I'll get up at 5:00 and take the dog out first but she hates going out for early walks.
A lot of ironing the shirt in the morning people. Also a lot of 20 minute people, impressive levels of efficiency in the latter.
05:45am - Alarm
05:50am - Up, breakfast, lycra
06:20am - On bike
08:30am - Arrive at work
08:45am - Sat at desk
6am: alarm goes off
1. Press snooze
2. Get smacked across face by large angry and hungry cat
3. Push cats off bed
4. Get up
5. Fall over cats
6. Go to toilet. With attendant cats
7. Try to go down stairs without getting legged up by cats
8. Open Fridge
9. Pull cats out of fridge
10. Feed the sodding cats
11. Make coffee.
12. Return to bed with coffee, finally in peace.
13. Drink enough coffee to come round sufficiently to be safe behind the wheel of a car (generally around 1 pint extra strong).
14. Clean teeth, get dressed, sort out face and hair.
15. Give up on face and hair
16. 7:30am - approx - set off to work
Arrive at work at about 8:10am.
6:30 Alarm
Iron Shirt
wash and teefs
dress - out of door at 6:45
Work at 7:02-06 depending on traffic
6.30 Alarm hit snooze until somewhere between 7-7.20 😳
Wash / shave / cycling kit on
Downstairs, Protien shake, bike out of shed,
Cycle to work, 5 miles anywhere between 15-20 minutes depending on lights, chosen bike and tired legs
Get to work at some point between 7.50 and 8.15, PC on, Coffee, emails etc
Shower when it becomes free at work and dress for the day (Normally before 9 )
Interspersed with this can be (Select randomly from list below)
Cuddles with Mrs Dom
Being woken by No1 child
Putting No1 on the loo for a wee
Getting No1 half dressed
Breakfast for no1
Milk for No2
Dog out for walk
Feed Dog etc etc
I should go to bed earlier and I`d be better in the mornings, but whatever I do, it takes me an hour to come round.
[i]5. Fall over cats
6. Go to toilet. With attendant cats[/i]
you don't go to the toilet with the cats watching do you?
because that ain't right.
I'm surprised how few people have a poo of a morning.
Is there an 'only on the company's time even if it causes problems over a bank holiday weekend' policy in place or are you too polite to mention it?
6.00 Alarm
6.01 Bathroom, the 3 S's
6.15 Get cycling kit on
6.20 Make drinks for me and wife, put washing machine on, packed lunches for me and/or the rest of the household, empty dishwasher, open up guinea pig hutch
6.35 Put packed lunch and rolled up shirt into pannier
6.40 Go upstairs to brush teeth and find wife still in shower having rolled over and gone back to sleep
6.45 Brush teeth, put on shoes and helmet, pick up pannier and keys, touch door handle.....get stopped by one or both of the kids coming downstairs wanting food and/or drink and/or kiss goodbye
6.55 Finally get on bike and head for work
7.45ish Arrive at desk. Log on. Stretch, drink glass of water, unpack pannier, tell admin my car space is free, check emails and work trays
8.15 Boss reminds me I'm still in cycling kit
I get up sometime between 7 and 8 always in work at 8.55 to start at 9am, the later I get up the less likely I am to be late as less chance of me getting distracted, when I need to get the kids to nursery on a Monday and Thursday the same shock and awe works with them, up, dressed, in the car, if I give them time to settle it's like herding cats! I wonder where they get that from?
