Leaving the House
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5.57am. I'm awake after a nursing session, so I decide I might as well get up. A few years ago I wouldn't even have considered being up this early unless I had a plane to catch or I was leaving a strange man's flat in a hurry. But recently I have started experimenting with rising even before my children, so that I can try and snatch half an hour of p…