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[Chortle Chook]

It has dawned on me that something in my life has got out of control. When I first started work it used to take me a max of 30 mins to get ready to go to work from wake up time. (From leaving the house I then had a 20 min walk to work). Then it took me 1hr, then 2hrs (followed by about one and a half hour's commute). Then for a long while it took me 3 hrs. Now it is taking me 4 hrs and I work from home too so only have to go upstairs to my study. I think walking dogs, cleaning chickens and doing ducky water is getting out of hand (I still do my full amount of work time but it has slithered to the end of the day). Am I alone or is it that the older one gets the longer it takes?

[Olly]

I do seem to be in a bit of a time-warp some days, but no it definitely doesn't take me that long, I'd be getting up at 5.00 am if it did! As I have to commute, I always fill up feeders/drinkers the previous night - then in the morning all I have to do is collect any eggs and check that there are six hens all standing upright, if you know what I mean.

 

I can faff around for ages in the bedroom and lose track of time though.

[sage]

1 and half hours for me

I'm up 6am. Kick hubby out of bed at 6.20 (still kicking 15mins later ), DD is usually wake by that time. I need to have DD downstairs for 6.45 to have any chance of getting her fed and dress for nursery at 7.30. Hubby usually put in an apperance at 7.20 (on a good day) again to be out he house for 7.30. Inbetween I check chickens, make packing up, empty dishwasher and tidy kitchen.

Then 20mins to get to work and a rest.

 

Sage

[Space Chick]

About 45mins to an hour here.... Up, check on chickens, shower, eat my breakfast, feed the cats and off. I usually make our lunches the nights before, but if I don't I tend to make us both a sandwich.

 

However, I don't make an effort with my appearance for work.... No make up and hair just dried and sometimes tied back as long as I look presentable I'm happy, not bothered about looking good for work

[Chortle Chook]

You guys are all might speedy. I think I faff and I'm slow too. I don't have anyone around me getting up and going off to work so when I get up at 6.00am it feels like I'm the only one and time is on my side. It is only when it gets to 8.00 am and I'm still mouching and faffing and doing plenty of 'stand and stare' that I realise it isn't

[Alis girls]

I get up at 6am (7am in hols) takes me 40mins to drink tea and put on slap and uniform, feed kitties and hens , and kids - well I thrust food at them and they make some effort to eat it. Peg washing out or put some in the machine, plan eveining meal and leave between 8.30 and 9 . I do some faffing too - not a morning person so get up early so I dont have to rush (fat chance of that)

[Minnie&Moose]

I get up at 6am (7am in hols) takes me 40mins to drink tea and put on slap and uniform, feed kitties and hens , and kids - well I thrust food at them and they make some effort to eat it. Peg washing out or put some in the machine, plan eveining meal and leave between 8.30 and 9 . I do some faffing too - not a morning person so get up early so I dont have to rush (fat chance of that)

 

This sounds a bit like me - though there's also much shouting at household, cat cuddling (if I don't he sprays in protest), and a frantic cycle ride involved to ensure I'm in work on time Fortunately it doesn't really matter what I look like - as long as I have enough breath to deliver a coherent and audible lecture, that's all that matters

[cyclonetog]

I get woken up at 6.35 with a cuppa.

Go downstairs to make some cerial, and back up to bed to eat it

Back up at 6.45 to clean teeth and have a wash and get dressed.

Downstairs, let chickens into run, grab bags and out the door for 7-7.05.

[The Dogmother]

The time getting myself ready is really only about 40 minutes in all, the rest of the two hours since getting up is spent sorting/walking animals and making sure that Rosie is sorted and ready, sorting laundry, loading the washing machine, pegging out washing......

 

I only live 5 mins walk from the office, so no real journey.

[coppers]

I get up at different times depending on OH's shifts. If I am up very early I go back to bed for a bit after he has left and get back up again at 7. 7 seems a lovely time to get up to me . I then feed dogs and cat, check hens are okay and that they have adequate food and water and look for eggs. I then do similar for the ducks and have to refill their tubtrug with 2 watering cans of water daily. Obviously there is thawing of water necessary in cold weather. I do all of this in my dressing gown! I have an outdoor and an indoor one!

As I am more mature nowadays (age wise not behaviour wise) the two children I have living at home sort themselves out. I sort kitchen and laundry etc and then take about an hour to bath and get ready for work. I live 5 minutes away from the school in which I work but have been known to have to rush up the road to school as I have spent too long watching the blue tits going in and out of the nest box Or I have got carried away doing a little deadheading. Or looking for newts in the pond. Or... I am someone who does a lot of standing and staring it would seem. I didn't write the poem though... If I worked from home I would definitely start very late in the day. xx

[Chortle Chook]

So far from this it seems that the closer people are to work, the longer they take to get ready so now I'm all cheered up and don't feel so odd

[merlina]

when I lived in the city, I could get up at 8.15 and be at work for 9.

Nowadays, with a move to the country I have to be up at 6

That's only very slightly due to the need to check/feed the chickens

And a lot more to do with:

a) traffic - so many more 'opportunities' to get held up in the rush hour(s)

b) my workplace's 'green transport initiative' which means that to get a parking place you have to be there for 7.45 at the latest. The lack of parking is supposed to make us use public transport or cycle. Somehow I can't imagine cycling 18 miles in all weathers at my age and the only bus through our village goes in the opposite direction!

 

I still wouldn't want to go back to the city though!

[Looney]

On days when I need to wash my hair ( ) I set my alarm for 5.08 am and am ready to leave the house by 6.15 ish....then off to train station, park, get train, get tube, walk and in work for 8.40am - yes, quite a commute!

 

I very rarely actually get woken up by my alarm though as youngest Bogwoppit is usually up by 5am wanting attention!

[Lavenders_Blue]

I work from home, and am embarassed to say I don't find it very easy to get started on time Up at 7am, get dressed, let the hens out (food and water sorted the night before usually), out for a walk with the dog, back around 8am, breakfast for us both, then time stands still for a bit (bit like one of those fantasy/sci fi programmes where people are frozen in time/space but the world carries on around them) by which time it's usually getting on for 9am and I've got about 3 minutes to have a shower, get dressed and start working.

It's not actually that critical that I start on the dot of 9am, but the later I start, the later I finish of course. I also have found that since working from home and timekeeping not being so critical a lot of the time, my timekeeping in general is now pretty appalling, which for someone who has never been noted for punctuality, is pretty shocking. I made it my New Years Resolution this year to be more punctual, and I have failed miserably Must try harder.

[Redwing]

I used to get up at 5am but this summer have managed to get my routine more refined and get up at 5:45 now giving me half an hour to shower and dress and about 45 minutes to check on animals and birds and put washing on or do any odd jobs, it takes me an hour and a half to commute to work so I blast the fan in the car to dry my hair

 

I do most of the smallholding jobs in the evenings, I dont usually sit down properly till 10pm. I dont work Fridays which is a huge advantage so I only really need to keep things ticking over for 4 days of the week but there is always stuff to do!

[The Dogmother]

..... then time stands still for a bit (bit like one of those fantasy/sci fi programmes where people are frozen in time/space but the world carries on around them) by which time it's usually getting on for 9am and I've got about 3 minutes to have a shower, get dressed and start working...........

 

L_B, Rosie does the holding pattern thing too and needs chivvying in the morning; she tends to get up at the latest time possible, rush and then forget stuff I hate being late or having to rush in the morning; my routine goes a bit like this....

 

Up at 6.15am, feed the cats, rabbits and chickens, let the chooks out if it's light. Breakfast then dog walk for about 45 minutes, back home, get Rosie sorted and out of the door at 8am while I am also sorting laundry, washing up or doing a myriad of other household chores. Half an hour-ish to get ready for work... and that's the full works as we have to be smart and well groomed at the weekend it hardly takes any time at all

[Lewis]

I'm def not a morning person so have a shower + get stuff ready the night before so I roll out of bed, into clothes and out the door.

 

Haven't worked much this Summer but was doing 6 days a week last year with an hour + half commute so would get up at 7.37 to be out the door for 8ish.

 

Am the same with early lectures... roll out of bed into clothes, grab my bag + go to the bus stop. Sometimes have an apple or banana on the walk but don't usually have time

[chickencam]

During term time, I am up at 7am, the children leave at 7.40am and DS usually gets up at about 7.30am drags on his clothes on stuffs his breakfast into his mouth and is out of the door by 7.40am, he is very lucky that I make his breakfast

 

I usually then take our breakfast upstairs and OH then gets up at about 8am and if we are both in the office we leave at 8.35am, during this time, I put on washing, feed cats, check hens and generally tidy up.

 

I am not a morning person at all, I much prefer the school holidays when I can get up at about 8am.

[Christian]

I'm up between 3-4am most morning when working. 45 minutes to get up and ready for the 60 mile drive to the airport.

 

Packed lunch/food all arranged the night before, bag is packed, uniform/pants/socks/shoes all out ready!

 

As I am away for a couple of night a week, I have to pack the night before and get organised as I am so bleary eyed first thing that I would forget everything if I didn't.

[Chortle Chook]

Golly, Christian, what time do you go to bed? I'd just die if that was me or do something like leave the house with my uniform skirt tucked into my pants (in my commuting days I did once get to work in my wellies )

[Daphne]

Apparently I used to come home from work with toothpaste still around my mouth Although I choose to believe OH is winding me up, it is true I have found toothpaste on our bedroom curtains before now

[Christian]

Golly, Christian, what time do you go to bed?

 

Early! But usually not early enough I might be up at that time, but usually it is one flight out to somewhere and there by 12ish, so can then have a power nap