For the first time ever!

[maximan]

I logged onto TLF at 6.04 this morning and was alone.Yes alone not a member guest or bot was logged on.
Is this true or is a gremlin at work.

[eepee]

I don't quite understand your post.

What "6.04 this morning " ???

I have never heard of such a time.

Regards,
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[UncleEbenezer]

It's not so much that you never knew they existed. It's just that they've morphed.

At 20, 6.04 a.m. is a late night.
At 50, 6.04 a.m. is morning.

I'm sometimes around at that kind of time (e.g. yesterday), but I haven't seen it tell me I'm alone.

[Rhyd6]

I suffer from insomnia, the only other person I had conversations with in the wee small hours was Basket Bob, alas he no longer posts so I'm left all on my lonesome.

R6

[jfgw]

As you get older, you tend to discover strange times in the morning that you never knew existed.

Toilet visit number six.

(Ok, I'm not that old!)

Julian F. G. W.

[tjh290633]

Why is it that I wake up as is getting light, well before 5am, yet on Saturday, when I need to be up at 5.30am, the alarm will wake me up? I need to leave home by 06.45 to get to Bristol by 09.30, collect a friend and then be in Monmouth by 10.45. with luck I have time for a cuppa in Bristol.

TJH

[bungeejumper]

Why is it that I wake up as is getting light, well before 5am, yet on Saturday, when I need to be up at 5.30am, the alarm will wake me up?

It's a conspiracy. The pigeons who normally coo-coo you into early morning consciousness (or in my case, the starlings clogging around in the box eaves) have all agreed to let you oversleep. Who says nature doesn't have a sense of humour?

I need to leave home by 06.45 to get to Bristol by 09.30, collect a friend and then be in Monmouth by 10.45. with luck I have time for a cuppa in Bristol.

Helpful hint: if you haven't been to Bristol lately, add an extra 30-45 mins to what you'd normally allow. It's a sod getting into the city down the reduced-speed M32 in the mornings - I gave up trying to get into Brissel between 9 and 10 am some years ago. And it doesn't help that most of the centre and inner suburbs are a 20 mph zone and much of the parking is residents-only. If your destination is even vaguely to the west of the centre, consider going in the other way, via the M5 and Filton. You have not been charged for this information.

BJ

[Slarti]

Toilet visit number six.

(Ok, I'm not that old!)

That used to be me, until I got diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and given a CPAP machine.

Now it is very unusual for me to get up in the night, unless I've had a lot of beer.

And I no longer disturb the rest of the street with my snoring

Slarti

[stewamax]

a CPAP machine

At first glance I read it as a mechanical and somewhat violent remedy for constipation

[UncleEbenezer]

a CPAP machine

At first glance I read it as a mechanical and somewhat violent remedy for constipation

For those who suffer from sleep crapnoea?

[tjh290633]

@BJ, thanks for the comments, but my friend lives in BS9, about 10 minutes from the M5 and Cribbs Causeway, so I go that way. Also easier for heading to the old Severn Bridge.

TJH

[bungeejumper]

@BJ, thanks for the comments, but my friend lives in BS9, about 10 minutes from the M5 and Cribbs Causeway, so I go that way. Also easier for heading to the old Severn Bridge.

Indeed so, I congratulate your friend on his/her good judgement. Driving in Brissel is a pain in the posterior, which will become even more so (for some) when they introduce the total ban on diesels. Not that I own such a beast any more, you understand. Yes, the short hop to Monmouth is another bonus for you. Not a bad road at all once you've left Newport M4 safely behind you.

Sorry about the digression. Good luck with the morning call. Nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong. I take it you've checked the batteries in your alarm?

BJ

[tjh290633]

@BJ, thanks for the comments, but my friend lives in BS9, about 10 minutes from the M5 and Cribbs Causeway, so I go that way. Also easier for heading to the old Severn Bridge.

Indeed so, I congratulate your friend on his/her good judgement. Driving in Brissel is a pain in the posterior, which will become even more so (for some) when they introduce the total ban on diesels. Not that I own such a beast any more, you understand. Yes, the short hop to Monmouth is another bonus for you. Not a bad road at all once you've left Newport M4 safely behind you.

Sorry about the digression. Good luck with the morning call. Nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong. I take it you've checked the batteries in your alarm?

BJ

New batteries fitted the other day, thank you. Also we shall go up the Wye Valley, as our destination is east of the Wye and we avoid the traffic at the A4136 junction. That's the way we used to go to school in the 1940s.

Thanks for the comments.

TJH

[brightncheerful]

At 20, 6.04 a.m. is a late night.
At 50, 6.04 a.m. is morning.

In my early 20s, (circa 1969) the latest I could go to bed so as to be awake and up again by 0730 was 0400. Now i'm much older, and still in need of at least 8 hours sleep, I find the latest is about 0200.

[brightncheerful]

I suffer from insomnia…. R6

Have you tried sleeping? I gather it's an ancient folk remedy, with no known side-effects - unless you don't wake up again.

Whenever I can't get to sleep, which is rare, i know it must've been something I ate. In my mind i run through the possibilities and as soon as I've identified the culprit likely I'll start sweating for a few minutes before dropping off into a deep slumber.

I always remember that sleep is reciprocal: not only about going to sleep but also whether sleep wants me to go to it.

[orangepekoe]

Also we shall go up the Wye Valley, as our destination is east of the Wye and we avoid the traffic at the A4136 junction.

TJH

The southern bit of the Wye Valley A466 from St Arvans to Tintern is currently closed for several weeks, if that's the route you mean.
https://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/2019/0 ... o-tintern/

I'm not a local but was over that way visiting relatives last week.

[tjh290633]

Also we shall go up the Wye Valley, as our destination is east of the Wye and we avoid the traffic at the A4136 junction.

TJH

The southern bit of the Wye Valley A466 from St Arvans to Tintern is currently closed for several weeks, if that's the route you mean.
https://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/2019/0 ... o-tintern/

I'm not a local but was over that way visiting relatives last week.

That means that either we have to go over Tidenham Chase or via Trelleck. I shall take Google Maps advice.

Thanks for pointing that out.

TJH

[AleisterCrowley]

Not many around at the moment. 2 registered and visible users including me

[tjh290633]

It turned out that the old Severn Bridge was closed, as was the M49 cut off to Avonmouth. Travel via Newport by A449 and M4 was therefore unavoidable. 45 minutes going to Monmouth, 105 minutes coming back, at a snails pace on the motorway. In fact my fuel was getting too low to get me home, so I filled up at Tesco Bradley Stoke to be sure. Fortunately the journey home from Bristol was easy, punctuated by a coffee stop at Reading services.

TJH

[UncleEbenezer]

Never paid attention to it before, but it's currently reporting me as all alone here.

[edit] Or it was. Now it's me and 25 guests.
[edit again] 37 guests
[last time] 59 guests. And always well under a minute between these edits!