Morning! What's Your Routine?

 Morning routine, what's your morning routine?

Rise at about 0500, shower quickly and shave before dressing and opening up the Day One app on the MacBook.

Free writing for about an hour, about a thousand words. Nothing that's going to be published, but writing to free up the synapses for the rest of the day ahead.

Walk the dog. Get some fresh air and clear your head.

A spot of breakfast, fruit and freshly ground coffee made in a Chemex. Enough coffee for two servings. There's always time for a coffee break with biscuits later in the morning.

Once more, open up the MacBook, sit at the desk looking out over the garden and write.

Not quite

But you might know that's my dream. The reality is 0700 up, walk the dog, shower, breakfast and then I might get 20 to 30 minutes writing and then off to work for eight hours. That's a late shift. If I'm on an early, it's 0630 up, shower, breakfast and out the door.

Not that I'm complaining. I get plenty of annual leave and non-working days when working this weekend. Like I am this week, I am taking some quiet time to write this. However, the dog is at my feet, waiting for his morning walk. 

That is the struggle for an amateur 'professional' writer. Organising time in between everything else in life, finding time to write. I take every advantage where I can write so that you may spot me in the weirdest places, just sat writing, Coffee shops, riverside seats, train carriages, I've tried them all.

What prompted this week's blog? I was reading a blog about this subject, and it linked

 to a site where famous 'celebrities' from authors to retired boxer George Foreman write about their morning routines.

I have been re-watching the Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy, the ITV series from the 1970s. The series and book by John Le Carré are among my all-time favourites. I have also spotted a possible future project. I believe it could be a runner.