I woke myself up early!

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I hate alarm clocks (it doesn’t feel at all natural to wake with a jump every day) but my partner is dependent on one, he will just sleep until mid-afternoon unless something wakes him. So we have compromised with a clock-radio, which is tuned to Radio 3 so that we get some soothing classical music to wake up to. And it starts very very quietly and gradually gets louder (although only over a short interval of a minute or so). And 99% of the time I wake up of my own accord just before it starts anyway. This morning I woke up to what I thought was the Radio presenter talking about the planet Saturn being easily visible at the moment. I nudged my partner in the usual way – but by the time he woke up all was quiet. He looked at the clock and it was only 6 am, an hour too early! I thought I must have dreamt it. My partner did say that sometimes he had heard the radio do odd things by itself, so with the advantage of digital radio I was able to ‘listen again’ to Radio 3 just before 6 am, but no, there was no-one talking about the solar system. So I really must have dreamt it and woken myself up unnecessarily. Luckily my partner is pretty good at going back to sleep but I’m not, so I’m feeling far too sleepy now as I only went to bed at 12:45 am anyway! All rights reserved. © Text copyright Fleur 2025. Image from Pixabay.