New bed

Posted on December 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bed, divan, double, History, Humour, king-size, old bed, Sleeping, Time, tired out, Worn out4 Comments

Blimey! I’ve just had a new bed delivered. My old one way about Xx years old (too embarrassed to mention it’s actual age). What a palaver! Moving furniture and boxes out the way. Making sure there were no trip hazards in the way. Emptying divan drawers of stuff that could have come out of the ark, were those cushions from the 1980s? Then because I’ve gone from a king-size to a double do I need to get new sheets and a duvet? do I need new or will the old ones do? Will it be too soft or too hard? A friend of mine has given it me and she lives miles away so I didn’t get a chance to try it out. All I can say is that it looked comfy as the men carried it upstairs, but I’m too tired to get up there and try it out!

It depends

Posted on July 10, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Aches, Bed, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1995, Health, Insomnia, Pain, Rest, Sleeping, Tired, wakeLeave a comment

What time do you go to bed and wake up currently?

I’m not sure when I’m going to bed if I’ll be able to sleep. So therefore I don’t know what time I will wake up! I’ll try and get to bed at the same time each night but then anxiety or pain or other health issues can keep me awake.

Basically I try and sleep on my sides or back, but then find I need to turn over, before having to move again. Never really getting comfortable. I also generally wake up once or twice during the night, which means that I often don’t get back to sleep again.

After a restless night I may sometimes stay asleep till lunchtime. It’s a good thing that I’m not working in a nine to five job!

No room on the bed

Posted on April 29, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bed, Black and white cat, Cat, Limerick, no room, Poem, Poetry, Sleeping, Tired, Tuxedo cat4 Comments

No room on the bed for me

The cats were sleeping you see!

When I tried to seek

Some room to count sheep

The cats wouldn’t move or flee!

I’ve just done a limerick for Esther Chiltons weekly challenge, and it inspired me to write another one about the cats I found on the bed last night.

No room for me

Posted on April 20, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Bed, Black and white cat, Cat, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sleeping, snuggle, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

Oi cats! Let me in…

It’s MY Bed!

I want to sleep

Don’t stare impassively

Shift your paws please!

This beds for me…

There’s space on the other side

Enough for ten cats

And their toys!

So shift over

No don’t run away

Just snuggle down

And let me snooze.

Phone alarm

Posted on March 19, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged alarm, Awake, Bed, Cat, cats claws, Morning, Music, Phone, Sleeping, tinkly, TiredLeave a comment

Somewhere downstairs my sisters phone alarm is going off. She must still be asleep, but the high pitched tinkling music woke me up and my cats too! I am quite a light sleeper and I have good hearing which doesn’t help. Then on this grey and tinkly morning one of my cats has decided to tunnel down the bed next to me and stick her claws in my knees in order to get a bit of love. Chin and belly rub over she leaps back out of bed. Now I’m awake so I decided to let you know. Perhaps your phone will tinkle or beep and wake you up? X Morning X

Cats

Posted on March 9, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bed, Black and white cat, Cat, Humour, Life, Poem, Poetry, Shape, Sleep, Space, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Three cats on the bed

Like a Venn diagram

Each in a space

Far enough away

Not to menace

Or chase.

It’s fine for them

Keeping warm

But what shape

Do I have to make

To sleep in the space

That’s left?

On our bed

Posted on November 22, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Asleep, Bed, Black and white cat, Cat, Duvet, Feet, neat, Poem, Poetry, Tuxedo cat6 Comments

You lie on the bed, quite sweet

But you take up half the space

And though you look so neat

I still can’t find a place

To put my feet!

Look who’s on the bed

Posted on November 20, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bed, Black and white cat, Cat, Duvet, Paws, Purring, Sleep, Tired, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

A night visitor, all prowl worn out, purring gently, wants love. Left me no room while I was out. Now do I move him or let him stay? Gentle purring makes that decision easy.

My bed

Posted on June 17, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bed, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1970, Money, older person, older things, oldest thing, regular use, savingsLeave a comment

What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?

We bought our bed when my grandma died using a small bequest from her. That was a year after we moved into this house, and that was BEFORE we got married, so it’s over 25 years old.

It’s saggy, I have a folded up sheet on the bit where a spring is sticking out, and the divan drawers collapsed years ago. It’s a big bed and I don’t think it will ever go back down the stairs as we have had to have an extra handrail put on them as we have got older.

Half the time the fitted sheets don’t fit (it’s hard to find king size sheets round here). Tracey Emin would love our bed. It’s surrounded by books and book cases. The bedroom is too small, but we sleep in it because it’s away from the main road at the front of the house which is too noisy in the morning (we live opposite a noisy factory).

Most nights are uncomfortable, the bed is supported by an old A2 drawing board under part of it and the base is collapsing from old age. We can’t afford a new one. I think we should save money specially to buy one, but then we need new carpets and my curtains are being eaten by moths. But that’s life, we have clothes and food. You just have to manage. I have a lot of older things, but not in regular use.

My hubby, by the way, regularly rides an eighty year old tourer road bike. X

Time management!

Posted on May 16, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Afternoon, alarm, Anxiety, Bed, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1937, Insomnia, Life, Morning, prompts, Social media2 Comments

What’s one small improvement you can make in your life?

I need to start going to bed earlier. I’m always up late and it’s not good, then I get insomnia and I get up late. It’s a real dilemma to face. Not working also means I don’t have a routine to follow, and recent events have made me worse. I need to get out in the sunshine and boost my vitamin D but it’s easier to sit and feel anxious.

How do I do one thing to get me going again? Perhaps I should set my alarm every morning? Yes I could sleep through it, but at least it might give me the incentive to do things. Normally by the time I get up its after noon….

Why? Social media to some extent, and a constant need to watch the news. I’m caught in that dopamine trap of wanting to keep checking my phone, and yet I want to break away from it. I don’t read click bait but I do look at sites about politics a lot. I’m well informed. But why? it just ups the anxiety levels..

STOP!

Mallaband-Brown

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