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As we head into winter and the days get shorter and the mornings get darker, I find I’m often the only one up when I leave the house.
Sometimes I can hear seven-year-old Bart upstairs, crashing about, making himself breakfast, but mostly it’s just me. The alarm goes off at 6am and I try to be out the door by 6.20 to beat the traffic,