Forget the 5am club; this famous author is up at 3am – even on Sundays
Edinburgh-based Sir Alexander McCall Smith writes in the wee hours, and then goes back to bed and starts the weekends again later, with fried eggs and bacon.
He’s up in the wee hours hard at work writing every morning – including weekends. Other than that, Saturday is busy, but Sunday is for doing nothing – creating “space” to think, have a siesta and hang out with the grandkids, Scotland’s most famous legal scholar and novelist tells Life & Leisure.
Saturday morning is, in my view, probably the nicest time of the week. I’ve always loved Saturday mornings. You feel the release after the week, that you’ve finally finished with it. On Saturday morning I’m also allowed to have eggs and bacon. My normal breakfast every other day is a couple of boiled eggs, but on Saturdays, I have fried eggs and bacon.
Fiona CarruthersTravel editorFiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com
