In my years of retirement, going to bed and getting up at 10 is a wee bit all over the place. Usually, it’s a case of going to be at around 1030 at night but if something on television is attracting me or there’s some support on it might be later.

Getting up is equally hard to define, sometimes it will be seven in the morning and sometimes as late as 10 o’clock.

Being a retired old man the hours are no longer as important as they used to be.

In my younger years when I was studying as well as having a full-time job as the school principal, I sometimes would go to bed as late as midnight and be up again in the morning by 4 o’clock to study before school and work took over my day.

I remember falling asleep in the location where the power went off at night time by 930 and I was studying. I was studying by candlelight and one night or shall I say early in the morning at about 2 am I knocked over some panels and caught the curtains on fire.

Fortunately, the smoke disturbed my wife who came out and we were able to extinguish the fire before too cold.

That was back then and my sleeping patterns would take probably five or 10,000 words to write about because of the times in which we lived where we were located, what our work was, and what my commitments were otherwise.

These days it is far more simple and far less requiring of stringency