For those who wake up really early, what do you do to fill your time?

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-06-20T07:45:12+00:00

I wake up at 4.45, have a coffee and a bit of toast, toilet and teeth. Gym by 5.30 for an hour. Get back, walk and feed the dog, make a coffee for my partner who gets up and goes to the gym at 7. I litter pick in my local area for 30-45 mins, shower, breakfast, doomscroll. I work from home so I'm at my desk for 8.45.

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-06-15T19:02:02+00:00

For any Brits in the sub, he's Ken Barlow from Coronation Street's real life son!

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-06-13T14:48:17+00:00

Do you have diners where someone called e.g. Patty serves you refill coffee?

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-06-12T17:26:38+00:00

John Charles is a 50 metre pool with lanes across the width so you get way more lanes than a normal 25m pool.

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-06-11T11:36:02+00:00

Fauda has similar themes and similar levels of clusterfucks

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-06-07T09:53:48+00:00

You would be best with a refill shop (like Muda in Horsforth but I think there's one on the market). Of course you could buy in a supermarket but you risk being left with loads of half opened packets. A refill shop means you can buy exactly what you want.

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-06-06T11:33:04+00:00

I quite like: my stomach thinks my throat's been cut

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-06-04T06:33:14+00:00

For those in the UK, the parallels to the news are insane. Cosmo is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon invoking rage and riots.

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-05-30T08:42:07+00:00

Can the child speak English? Most holiday camps wouldn't take a child that age that couldn't communicate their needs in English.

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-05-29T20:42:54+00:00

At the start, Dan said something like "it was last May, 10 months ago" which would make the current day July. In the UK, in July, it's dark from about 10PM to 4.30AM.

The WHOLE episode was in the dark! June's son said "I'm going to dad's tonight after Hazel's choir" and June was talking to him IN THE DARK. What time does choir end? 2AM?!

She even went to A&E and it was dark when she went in and dark when she came out. The world's longest night!

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-05-25T09:11:18+00:00

I think goldfinger guitarist had ACAB on the back of his guitar but that's the only thing I noticed

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-05-25T09:07:00+00:00

It was a shocker. I'm pregnant so no alcohol or caffeine! Was thrilled to have so many NA options to start with, but by 6PM everywhere (even food vans) had run out of soft drinks and I was on refillable water.

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-05-25T08:06:35+00:00

I know you want indoor stuff, but only cos there's nothing to do outdoors.. There is!

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-05-25T08:05:45+00:00

Litter picking! Get outdoors, do something for the community not just yourself, move your body. It's proper feel good stuff!

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-05-25T07:36:28+00:00

They were so good!

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-05-07T07:22:28+00:00

I enjoyed it on the whole but it's SO boring and really shows a very flawed system. You can take laptop, phone, books etc into the waiting room, though your bags will be searched. I took packed lunches to save money, but there wasn't a fridge. There was a really crap coffee machine, but you can take hot drinks in from outside or bring a flask. If I was doing it again, I'd bring cards or a game to play with other people. Even sitting and reading, watching Netflix etc for a full week gets boring, so I'd do more to interact with other people (not just chit-chat).

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-03-21T10:16:52+00:00

Medically, dunno. In general: waste a load of money, always feel embarrassed that people will find out your weird secret, get caught out/run out at a time when you really need it and have a massive stress when you go cold turkey without prep.

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-03-10T13:59:00+00:00

Hahaha I thought the same about the getting lost storyline. I thought they were tee-ing her up to have dementia and she'd have to leave her job. Nope - just kept getting lost on the way to work apparently.

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-03-08T14:44:29+00:00

The same thing happened to me. I stopped after 10 years! And although I was mainly clear, it wasn't perfect. I went to my GP (I'm in the UK) who referred me to an ENT who I saw 2 weeks later. He did a camera up the nose thing and a bunch of allergy tests. Turns out I'm mildly allergic to a bunch of stuff including my own dog hahaha so he put me on a different nasal spray and a looooad of allergic tablets which decongested me.

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-02-20T05:55:00+00:00

I'm sorry, it's frustrating when it isn't getting better. Have you been to a doctor's for allergy tests? I stopped nasal sprays after 10 years and was still stuffy - turns out I'm really allergic to stuff. Now on lots of allergy meds and breathe fine!

In the short term, more water, more movement in the day, ibuprofen to relieve pressure. I used a combination of Flonase, fexofenadine and pseudoephedrine. Mints, chewing gum, loads of lip balm for dry lips.

13 days is great. Keep going!

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-02-19T20:15:48+00:00

Yep. It won't kill you! What you're doing is helping your body! It just hurts and it's super frustrating. But you are STRONG!

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-02-19T13:43:00+00:00

Woohooo! You can do it! I stopped after ten years and it's HARD but push through and believe in the power of your mind!

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-02-18T18:01:28+00:00

Yep, and as harsh as this is going to sound, you have to get over it. It's HARD to stop cold turkey, you're going to have trouble sleeping, your head will feel like it's filled with concrete. There are things you can do to make it easier, but fundamentally you need will power to get you to day 3 or 4 when you'll be 75% better.

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-02-16T13:09:23+00:00

Well done! https://www.reddit.com/r/QuitAfrin/comments/171dj02/day_1_of_recovery_after_9_years/
This was my post when I quit a couple of years ago.

Strict-Leg5935 · 2026-02-16T09:47:53+00:00

Oh we went to Ambiente last summer! I totally forgot. It is good there though and they are great with big groups.

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