Wordle is a morning activity, along with reading online newspapers and some Instagram scrolling. Tea followed by coffee. Blog writing. Being creative.

My definition of  morning is actually any time after midnight and is entirely dependent on how well I am sleeping. Younger me would have done a fresh Wordle after a night out. But I rarely see midnight at the end of the day, unless my book at bedtime is  very addictive. Fresh Wordles are released at midnight.

Screens are considered poor companions before sleep or indeed in between sleeps. But my sleep patterns were formed by years of  24 hour shifts that involved overnight working on screens between grabbed patches of sleep. Long before all other humans became so fixated on screens.

Contrary to all sensible advice regarding insomnia, screens help to put me back to sleep. I am very aware that I am an amateur insomniac, trained to be one, rather than a sufferer of the real condition.

Another foolproof method would be to have a quick swim in the sea or to walk in city streets, neither of those are particularly safe for a lone woman.

Night swimming in the sea would never be for me because I am a competent but not confident swimmer. I would not walk the streets of my current city, alone after dark.

Walking at night in a city became a habit when I lived in London. The first time,because I was young, and the night was a new and exciting world after growing up in rural Essex. The second time because I worked in two very safe parts of London. Marylebone and The City.

I think I am by nature a nocturnal person who has been reframed or indeed retrained as someone who goes to bed at 10.

So Wordle is my after-midnight* excitement these days. My younger self would be appalled.

• Wordle at nearly 8 this morning. Sign of a good night’s sleep. Healthy but not creative or particularly interesting.