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do you get enough dleep

dannyandshazdannyandshaz Posts: 36
in The potting shed
I was just thinking of how many people get enough sleep to do actual gardening,
Ive recieved replies and pm mail from three people at early hours today,
give us your secret how you spend so much of the day on the pc frpm 08am through to 03am and yet your on a gardening forum we're most people talk/live and really do do gardening? And need to sleep to be able to garden.

Good gardening to those who garden.
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    It's easy, when you've retired there's lots of things you can do in a day.
    I pop in and out to the garden, when I'm in having a cuppa I catch up here and elsewhere, then a bit more gardening, some cooking, visiting friends and vice versa etc etc and on rare occasions I do a bit of housework too.
    I'm tucked-up in bed before 11pm and up when I wake up anytime between 7-8am

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    I work part time and am often awake in the early hours even after a day in the garden sometimes the mind is active even though the old bones are tired! I don’t come on the forum though as then I would never get back to sleep. I think there is an “ are you awake?” thread for the real insomniacs. 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I never get enough dleep. In face, I'm sure I've never had any.
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I haven't had a ton of dleep recently I'll admit. Frees up much more time for other things such as yawning, drinking coffee and being grumpy though.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hampshire_HogHampshire_Hog Posts: 1,089
    I sleep when I need it sometimes a few hours occasionally six or seven.

    From my early twenty's until I took retired a few years ago I was flying all over the world so my body clock was forever moving some weeks it was nothing to fly from UK to the US and then on to the far east then back to the UK after so long you learn to take sleep when you can.

    "You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Hostafan1 said:
    I never get enough dleep. In face, I'm sure I've never had any.
    Would that be an Indian or Arabic word?  Must google that one.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Is dleep a euphemism for something.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Not for the faint-hearted or easily appalled





    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Thanks for the link Dove, you can see that Punkdoc is very clever, he knows these things, being a doctor and all 😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited May 2019
    @Dovefromabove, surely that LOL should be a ROFL?

    I worked shifts for 28 years so my body clock doesn't keep good time.  I never had trouble sleeping when I was working, but I always had trouble waking up.  Now I am retired, I often take ages to fall asleep.  I find a glass of whisky at bedtime helps, as does singing the Whiffenpoof song over and over in my head.  Or Dylan's "Simple twist of fate".
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