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LANDLORD’S LOUD ALARM WAKES TENANT UP @ 4AM, BUT UPSET WHEN TENANT GETS UP CAUSE “NOISY”

I [F 40] rent a room in a lovely home from my landlady [F 52]. She is fantastic but there is one ongoing issue. I now actually get up and out of bed in the morning instead of laying about.

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My landlady gets up early to prepare for her day. Her alarm goes off at 4am. She then wakes up slowly, comes out at 4.30 – 5am, does her prayers, meditation with music, stretches and a walk before bathing and work. All of these thing generate intermittent noise.

As her loud alarm goes off at 4am, it wakes me up. That suits me, I’m happy to start my day. When I have gotten out of bed and headed to cook myself breakfast,

she’s said that this bothers her as she doesn’t like to smell food in the morning as it disturbs her meditation etc, so has asked I don’t cook till 7am.

I have begrudgingly agreed to this. Firstly because she is a lovely person and true friend, secondly i am understanding because she has mentioned similar things before such as she doesn’t like me cooking after 8.30pm as the smell wakes her up, even if its just toast.

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Otherwise smells don’t bother her, infact when she cooks there is a beautiful cacophony of smells as she makes a lot of Indian food. None the less, I am trying to be supportive despite waking up starving.

The reason i wake up so hungry is because I have started taking my health really seriously, and don’t usually eat in the evening, I have managed to loose 17.5 kg in the past 6 months and plan to continue on my health journey.

This morning as usual the alarm went of at 4am, I spent a short while allowing myself to wake up and then went downstairs to prepare my food for the day so that I can cook at 7am sharp.

I really was trying to be quiet, and, for instance, i didn’t put the plates I’d used yesterday in the dishwasher until I had actually heard my land lady up and moving about.

Just before 5am my landlady came out, she said she’s already spoken about this in the past. I was confused, I said I hadn’t cooked anything and created smells, I had just sliced and diced in preparation etc.

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She explained; me moving around disturbs her peace as this is her spiritual time, she did say it really nicely but I was getting upset none the less.

Long story short, she feels I should sit quietly until around 7am so as not to disturb her, unless she is out for a walk in which case it obviously does matter.

I firmly explained that the reason I am up in the first place is is HER alarm loudly goes off at 4am followed by intermittent noise until she leaves for work.

That gets me up, hence me wanting to start my day. If by some miracle I wake up any earlier than her alarm I sit quietly and read a book etc.

For additional information, not only do I pay rent, I pay a lot in rent for the area, this also gives me full use of the house.

So, in other words, despite her getting me up i must sit quietly so as not to disturb her peace?

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