Good Morning Thursday

Himself is in the shower, clothes in the washer. He brought back steak from the butcher counter. OMG such a huge fat steak! Must be 4” thick! Truly enough to feed 4 people, not kidding. It was only €12 so it’s not the cost.

I will cut it into quarters now and freeze 2 pieces in the ice box in our fridge.
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Well either that or put it on a low light now for Friday night.... did he think I could eat half a cow’s bottom?

Don’t answer that.

Good morning Mick & all from sunny Nottingham.
Working from home now for the past few weeks & done my 2 days for this week.
Washing & baking today, out in the garden later.
Thinking of you Gillybob hope you have a better day today.
Good luck in your new job Scentia
Have a good day everyone

Good Morning to everyone.
Scentia Good Luck with your new job today!
I’ve decided to have a lazy day today and watch as much daytime TV as I want. It’s the first time in a week but I just feel like some easy watching. This morning has a section on dying your own hair with Michael Douglas (the TV hairstylist, not the actor) and in about 2 weeks I’m going to need to “home dye”. I think dust sheets around the bathroom may be nessesary.
How are others managing their hair? It seems superficial in a time of national emergency, but it really does affect how you feel about yourself to look after ourselves and be reasonably “well groomed”.

Good morning everyone,
This is the first time I have posted, I love the ‘Good Morning’ thread , hearing what everyone is planning for the day, I hope it’s ok to join in.
My post is late this morning as woke at 5am and read for a bit then made the mistake of going back to sleep and woke at 9.00! Although there is no reason to get up early due to lockdown. Sunny day here( Warwickshire) hoping to make the most of the weather by going out for a walk after putting washing on line. Hoping ( like all of us) that the lockdown will ease soon, have a brand new first granddaughter born during lockdown that we have not been able to hold yet, although we have viewed at a distance through the kitchen window! Thank you everyone on here for your posts, it feels like joining friends , kind regards to all xx

Ooh forgot to say Take Care All, and Clap hard tonight (or bang a saucepan) for our NHS and Carers. X

Welcome Folkestone78. Enjoy GN. ?

Good Morning All x
Not the full sun that we've had on previous mornings but still sunny and bright. I'm expecting too much now !

I don't quite know what I'll get up to today though I noticed some weeds poking through the red-brick flooring at the front so I'll get my trusty gadget to sort those out. It's a thin-bladed thing that gets between the cracks and cuts the weeds.

Hoovered again yesterday to see if there was any sign of the elusive mouse, but was a bit wary of opening the door to the linen cupboard as the cat was sitting outside it. Gingerly, I opened it but no sign as I left the hoover running to scare it.
I don't want to imagine it being dead anywhere either !

Spoke to D yesterday, on the phone of course and all are well in the household. She was thrilled at having got rid of all her garden, builders and household rubbish in a skip that she'd ordered but the price of it ! £250 ! Blimey they've gone up. She wasn't bothered though as she's got a bit more garden. It's going to be a while before I see the handy-work

While D is furloughed she's taking advantage of all the jobs she hasn't got around to while at work so she said she's not going to waste a minute. Even setting the children homework, although one of them has toothache and she tried to get a dentist, but couldn't, neither private, NHS or the hospital----no help whatsoever. Everything's stopped !!

Thoughts to those who might be wobbling and struggling or are just cheesed-off. Stay safe and well and take advantage of the good weather. xx

Hi Folkstone78 it’s lovely to welcome newbies to the gang!
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Welcome to this lovely Good Morning thread Folkstone and huge congratulations on your new baby granddaughter. I bet you can’t wait for a cuddle

Not being able to get an emergency dentist for a child is shocking and disgraceful EllanVannin . Surely there must be some provision ? Especially for a child .

gilly nice to see you posting again. Take care. I think of you and your family often x

Welcome Folkestone to you and your grand daughter- bet you can’t wait for that first cuddle!

Where’s Marydoll this morning, hope she’s ok. She normally opens up The School with a brain teaser and we all pile in with a load of drivel! I quite like being a snotty kid on her thread as I was a bit of a goody twoshoes in real life!

Gillybob my D did everything but stand on her head, honestly.
Nobody wanted to know. The child is ten and he was in so much pain. She's been giving him Calpol every few hours and tried all kinds of things, even clove oil but he doesn't like the taste of it.
I told her to phone the GP and ask for a prescription for antibiotics if all else fails.

D even rang places out of our area. This is why there must be dozens of people suffering at home with all kinds of pain but either won't get it sorted because of the virus or are refused.
Why should everything come to a halt like this, it's insane ?

Could 111 not possibly help your DD find an emergency dentist EllanVannin ? Can’t bear to think of a child with toothache it’s just awful .

Could she take him to A&E EV

Morning everyone....and Mick, don’t give up on a walk outside if you can. You were always out and about (in the ‘good old days’)

Welcome Warwickshire Folkestone - see, I’m already thrown by that!

All I can say, Urmston is .........woss goin’ on? This weather !
A warm but grey day here! If this weather carries on I shall have to have a word with our Mayor’s office.. who’ve sent the whole town a request that everyone with a sewing machine spares a little time for the greater good. They’d like help making masks. Rolls of material are available for collection or delivery, so may give it a go. Elastic shortage has been highlighted and since I have very little, it may have to be bias binding, tape, ribbon or even old shoelaces to tie fasten. Even a friend in Florida who has started a big push for community mask making, says that she’s been giving some of her older knickers more than a second look, if the elastic trims seem ok ?. Apparently, most of her neighbours are not going to wait for any more of Emperor Trump’s posturing, they’d rather press on and make their own survival plans.

Scentia you have such a positive attitude. Well done you...it must be so hard to move from a fair bit of worry and concern at your own situation brought about by this crisis, to then offer to involve yourself in concerns and sadness around children and families. Totally work worth doing but hard sometimes, I should think. Pace yourself please and keep safe.

I’d have cried about the little ? Gabriella. I would think he’s beyond help but, like you, I’d want to try. Do you have a wildlife rescue/sanctuary place somewhere fairly local that you could contact? In normal times they would possibly be willing to send someone out to look and they have the experience of trapping and treating. Vets normally treat sick wild animals for free, but your Vet friend would be unlikely to want to risk managing a fox outside on her own - even to euthanise. It’s rotten that one has to feel a bit useless in such circumstances. ?

I’m looking forward to some Creole pumpkin ? soup for lunch, then a walk with the dogs, as it’s actually dry weather.

Keep safe and positive, folks. It maybe won’t be the same life that we’ll get back......but we can and must make it a good one. Happy St George’s Day from across The Channel ?

You’re plan is possibly the best for the poor little chap, EV GP phone call, painkillers and antibiotics to settle the pain and maybe clear infection. At least then he’ll be safe and comfortable. Anything further will be up to the GP to organise - you and his Mum have tried your best. Hope he feels better really soon.

Good morning all from a sunny but chilly Glasgow.
Happy St George’s Day?

Woke up pain free this morning so, lesson learned not to over do it in the garden I will carefully assist DH assemble the new greenhouse which arrived yesterday.
The cushion covers I dyed last week didn’t quite turn out the wine colour I was hoping for as I should have used more dye but they have come out a lovely raspberry colour and look a lot better than they did anyway.

I would worry about the poor fox too Gabriella. Our resident fox, stumpy, so called as he has no tail hasn’t been here for a while now.

I don’t know what made you cry gilly but I’m sending you a big cuddle to help you through another day x
Good luck as you start such a tough job Scentia. Much admiration for you being there for those children.

Hope everyone has a good day as we plod on.

To leave a child in constant pain is disgraceful EV hearing that every source you DD has contacted are unwilling to help and leave a child in pain is unforgivable ? I only hope your DD’s GP has a solution for that poor wee boy?

I’m worried about Marydoll too Pantglas I’ve sent her a PM . Not to be a pest but just to check she’s okay

Good morning Michael12 - made a big effort to post in the morning. I log in to the GM thread every morning but somehow get a bit distracted doing bits and bobs and it's lunchtime before I know it. It is another beautiful sunny day up here in the Highlands - quite often is this time of year and then it goes downhill especially last summer. I did my weekly shop yesterday and it was good not to have to fill up with petrol. It's the cheapest it has been for years and I haven't topped up since mid March. I tend not to use the car much anyway as I always walk to town but I'm not doing that walk as it is like High Street used to be on a Saturday at the moment with whole families picnicking, mini football going on and dog walkers. A lot of protests at the litter and dog fouling so quite happy to give it a miss and just have a short walk more local and spend the rest of the day in the garden. When we stayed over in Spain St George's Day was quite a big event for the ex-pats Urstongran - usually in blazing sunshine! Hopefully it will be nice there on Sunday for the emergence from lockdown for the families with children. Hope everyone's day is okay for them.

Just looked up "child with severe toothache during lockdown" and the advice is to dial 111. There has to be some emergency dentists open , surely like other medics they can wear protective equipment. In fact they do anyway don't they?

Thank you Kalu. It was just something stupid I forgot to do and I completely lost it . People were giving me the weirdest looks and I felt so stupid when I pulled myself together.

Urms
You just sign the 48hr directive, that’s what all the hospital doctors sign as they do it regularly.