Reply to: So, what time do you have to get up??

[V M4N]

Don't think anyone does anywhere back near the speed limit during commuting hours, or at least I don't like to, but when you do see a speeding v'dub with a on it, then that can crap you up when you rely on commuting.

Up at half 6, half an hour to get ready, then in for about quarter to 9. Been doing it for almost two years, but I feel like im an old man already (only 22) becuase the drive is killing me, just waiting for a friend to sort his house out so I can spend 4 nights a week there, otherwise both me and the car are going to give up soon!

[BoredBloke]

I've seen a silver skoda pulling people also. This morning they had cameras on one of the bridges before the end of the toll road on lanes 2 and 3 and one on the outside lane of the M42 where the two meet. As I said, when I spotted it (I was in the middle lane) I was doing 80 ish. They will have got loads today as nobody at all does the speed limit on that road.

[Bagpuss]

"Do you get up that early to avoid paying the £4 for the M6 toll?
I travel down the M40 on Mondays from Cheshire, leave the house 7:30 ish and in the office in Buckinghamtulipshire by 10"

No, I live in Rochdale so it can take 10 mins to get to the M62 and another 30 mins to hit jct 21 of the m6 and that is clogging along. On a Monday, at 5:30 am the m6 is already 3 solid lanes of traffic already grinding along. Then it's the toll road and often make my choice as to the route to take when I see how bad the bottom of the toll road is. Sometimes it is better to do the M1 and the a43 to join back to the M40. I also want to be there by 9, but I'm starting to come round to starting later these days - getting old I guess.

They had speed cameras on the toll road today - I went under one doing about 80 (had slowed down a bit) so I'm expecting another 3 points and a fine.

I saw a undercover police skoda pulling someone on Monday, as I alowed down from 110.

M42 isn't that busy if you hit it 8:30 -9 especially since they opened the hard shoulder as an extra lane

[BoredBloke]

"Do you get up that early to avoid paying the £4 for the M6 toll?
I travel down the M40 on Mondays from Cheshire, leave the house 7:30 ish and in the office in Buckinghamtulipshire by 10"

No, I live in Rochdale so it can take 10 mins to get to the M62 and another 30 mins to hit jct 21 of the m6 and that is clogging along. On a Monday, at 5:30 am the m6 is already 3 solid lanes of traffic already grinding along. Then it's the toll road and often make my choice as to the route to take when I see how bad the bottom of the toll road is. Sometimes it is better to do the M1 and the a43 to join back to the M40. I also want to be there by 9, but I'm starting to come round to starting later these days - getting old I guess.

They had speed cameras on the toll road today - I went under one doing about 80 (had slowed down a bit) so I'm expecting another 3 points and a fine.

[Bagpuss]

07:00 - Up and in the shower
07:20 - In the car
07:40 - In the office

Churchill - In "Oh those Cambridgeshire country lanes" mode!

Yeah the office is a mile down the road!

[Churchill]

07:00 - Up and in the shower
07:20 - In the car
07:40 - In the office

Churchill - In "Oh those Cambridgeshire country lanes" mode!

[Mr Crosby]

7:45

[Bagpuss]

Do you get up that early to avoid paying the £4 for the M6 toll?
I travel down the M40 on Mondays from Cheshire, leave the house 7:30 ish and in the office in Buckinghamtulipshire by 10

[BoredBloke]

For me it depends what day I come down here. If I travel down on a Monday then it is up at 4:30 and driving by 5 to make it here (Uxbridge) by 9. Usually nip into where I stay for a shower to wake up a bit. If I come down on a Tuesday (like today) then I tend to set off 30 mins later as the traffic is a bit easier.

While down here the travel to the site is literally a 10 min drive. Then on a Thursday night I drive home to work Fridays from home. Going back on a Friday is a nightmare and I try to avoid that at all costs.

Done this for pretty much 5 years now at various clients and I'm sick of the sight of the M40 and the M6.

[expat]

Weekly commute:

Up 6 to get to airport and fly to Germany. Arrive office about 2:30 pm.

Up at 6:30 the other 4 days, to do hours during what's left of the week, and leave office at 1:30 pm on Friday.

Hate the commute: Monday morning is
- train to London
- tube or taxi
- heathrow express
- checkin and security
- wait
- flight
so it's not great for long reading slots or for a good kip.

Went from Birmingham instead of Heathrow this week. Think I'll keep that up.

PS Why don't they run a Eurostar (on good track, ha ha) from St Pancras to Frankfurt?

[xoggoth]

About 8.30 to get in at 9ish usually (I don't bother with non essentials like washing or shaving or putting trousers on) but Mondays I have to get up at 5.30 to beat the traffic travelling back to Somewhere In England Town.

[2uk]

I am single plus I plan to relocate closer to the gigs as they arise. Initially i hought this would be a disadvantage - having to rent a different place all the time , but from what i read here , if a "normal" work travel is approx. 1.30 h. then relocating is quite an alternative. Traveling over an hour to work is not feasiblle.

Long travel can be offset by studying on the train. Especially if u get a constant GPRS internet connection on the train....

[lith]

Best was when the customer's site was the other side of the road from where I was staying
Sleep in until early afternoon, phone call.. "hi! sorry not at my desk right now, call you back in 10!" quick shower, dash across the road...longest bit was waiting for the lights to change at the crossing
(in my defence, support role...customer didn't like us onsite much cuz they thought we were 'up to something' so not being there was good for the client...honest.. )

So it's pretty much all day-shift then? Everyone like it like that?

Prob my highest level of productivity was going in late afternoon, 3pmish, finishing off 3amish
Just moved into a shared house then, didn't meet half the people for about a month

[Troll]

Wake up around 7.30 a.m., 8 a.m. sometimes...travel by car 35-45 mins, @work around 9, 9.15 to be honest...Life in UK rocks...

So would your previous schedule be:
Wake up 05:00
05:30 Feed the pigs
06:00 Milk the Cows
06:30 harness horse to carriage
07:00 Giddy-up to work
...just wondering

[Bazza]

-Never smoked
-Drink only on special occasions and even then I stick to one or two glasses of wine (haven't had a hangover since I was a student
- When I eat I do eat helthy stuff, i.e. plenty of veg and protein, but sometimes I forget to eat and it makes me feel really cranky
-I take loads of multi vitamins, I can't function well without them
- I like my rest, but like you I'd like to spend sometime with my kids in the evenings
- Thanks for the advise, but why the sly comments at the end? did you wake up on the wrong side today??

Comments not meant to be sly - my attempt at humour.