I don’t need an alarm clock. Instead, I have a three-year-old who is programmed to wake up with the sun. The moment she senses the break of dawn she’s wide awake and full of beans. Then, because she thinks it’s her job to rouse the rest of us, she’s out of bed and running down the corridor with a cheery “It’s morning, time to wake up!”

Unlike my daughter, I am not a morning person. I don’t want to start my day at 5.30am, and despite my efforts to make the best of it I just can’t match her enthusiasm for early mornings.

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