‘I watch the sun rise from a hammock in the garden’ – 16 ways to start your day well now the clocks have gone back

From yoga in bed to a bracing dawn walk with a friend, readers share how they brighten up their mornings as the seasons change and winter approaches

Shorter days, colder weather, earlier sunsets: winter is on its way in the northern hemisphere, and the clocks going back has only driven the point home. Guardian readers reveal the small rituals that bring joy to the gloom of waking up in the morning.

I don’t lie in bed and fight the clock. I make a hot milky coffee and take my hammock out to the garden, which is secluded and quiet. I hitch it up and climb into the hammock to watch the stars in the sky as they are slowly extinguished by the dawn. Cindy-Lee Noble, 67, retired gardener, Dorset

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