Good Morning Friday

Good morning Mick & all from sunny Nottingham.
Zumba gold at 10.00 am & shop afterwards.
Zoom quiz tonight with family.
Best wishes to mr Gingster
Hope you’re feeling better Marydoll
Glad your day went well Scentia
How frustrating Gillybob hope you have better luck on the phone today.
Have a good day everyone.

I bet the ducks disappear once the gardens open eventually Grandmafrench as they won’t have the run of the place!

Glad your friend the vet looked after that fox Gabriella he’s a lucky chap indeed.
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Can I just say to everyone how much I love this thread each morning. It is truly one of the best highlights in my very small world. xx

Gabriella glad Mr? is being looked after.

Crossed posts gilly.Better luck with the phone calls today??

Well, your Vet friend has certainly made my day, Gabriella. Really good news, thank you.

Good morning everyone from a Foggy France - well, here anyway. We are waiting for the sunshine, authorised to arrive at 11am ! Everything here has to be authorised at the moment, so just getting with the programme, as it were.

More teak-oiling this morning, then will jet wash the rubbish off an old teak table, let it dry out and oil that too. All these garden preparations, it's like we're getting all dressed up......with nowhere to go. But mustn't let the standards slip too much, or I'll be annoyed and will never catch up once everything heats up.

Hope you feel lots better today and normal service will be resumed very quickly, Mr Gingster. I noticed the pasty slip up too, Urms....possibly wishful thinking? Love your little Mallard, but do hope that "the management" aren't going to be unkind to your little visitors once they realise how much pool poo-ing has been going on. Ducks and water? Always a fatal combination anywhere for those who can't be toilet trained ! We inherited our first ducks, Prue and Percy, for that very reason and because people were running gites and every guest used to feed them near the pool. After cleaning the pool three times in one day, the site owners decided that the ducks had to go. We had them for 12 years - they are the sweetest creatures and just love company. Bet you are getting so excited about your upcoming promenade next week !!

Off to have coffee - and a sneaky croissant which DH bought from next door when he went to the Pharmacy earlier.

Have a good day all, and make it count. STAY SAFE x

Hope you are feeling better Marydoll - I didn't post yesterday so didn't realise you were AWOL!! x

Good morning from sunny Colchester. Friday is bedding wash day here. Duvets airing and machine whirring.
We have courgette plants taking over the kitchen windowsill so they need to go out. Another day in the garden methinks. More tea and reading than gardening though!
Just had a weird call from Doctors surgery. They are going through the files and checking phone numbers are up to date. The next of kin number they had for DH was a house they left in the 80s???

Good morning from a sunny NE.
Spent some time in the garden walking up and down and pullig out weeds from the block paving.
DH ordered face masks online just in case as we having to shop ourselves.
Video call with family tonight hopefully.

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Good news, Mr ? is being looked after by my vet friend. He has a broken leg which appears to have happened some time ago but all is well now, leg splinted, fed watered and cosseted (to a degree) before she releases him when he recovers.

M&S pancakes (the large sweet ones) for breakfast with lemon a sprinkle of sugar and home-made blueberry coulis. I had two ?
Today will be potting up my strawberry plants and I'll have more rhubarb delivered by a friend. Good job I love it ?
Well, time to get going and I think I'll have a walk in the fields this afternoon as it's another very warm sunny day.
Best wishes to all, especially those of you with difficulties and who worry a lot.
Things will improve, they are already starting to shift so hang in there.
See y'all tomorrow
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Good morning Auntyflo and all x

Good morning from the Shropshire borders where its another bright start.
Glad your first day went well Scentia and glad your husband is home Gingster after such good treatment and care.
Glad you are feeling better Mary.
Cherry thinking of you and hope you are feeling better today?
Hope you had some replies to your telephone calls gilly and that yesterday was a better day.x
Have a good day all.

Love the photo of the loan duck and the swimming pool Urms he must think all his birthdays have come at once, having a private pool .

Good morning from the North East coast where we have a bright start to Friday (hope it’s a little warmer than of late).

Spent hours on the phone to various people/authorities yesterday........ complete waste of time . It’s as though the whole world has left the building. A few bits of paperwork to finish off later today and then I might reward myself with a walk on the beach.

Blimey that was better than normal service from the NHS for your DH Ginster . The usual would have been 5 hours wait for an ambulance then 9 hours on a trolley waiting to be seen . Sorry to sound bitter but it’s sadly true. I do hope he gets the results of the tests and the right treatment equally as quick. It must’ve been quite scary .

Janet Street Porter writing in today’s Mail makes a very good point.

Glad to see you back MissMaryDoll you were missed yesterday and that MissSheba went home and locked me in the classroom ! Sorry about letting the stick insects out....I was bored.

I wonder where Nicola got her hairdressing scissors from Grammaretto you can’t get them for love nor money ?

Special treat for the children in our street last night when at the time of the 8pm clapping a jam sandwich drove up the street complete with blue lights and nee nahs ..... the kids on the end were going wild with excitement . We have a young police officer lives opposite and I wonder if he had something to do with it?

Well I hope everyone has the best day possible . Love and best wishes to all my Gransnet friends.

Gillybob x

Good to see you back Mary ?

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Just one duck in the swimming pool at present. We had six in it yesterday quacking away!

I just watched it waddle across the grass and stand by the ground floor apartment where the little girl throws bread to them ...

Good morning everyone from Malaga where it’s mild, the palm trees aren’t dancing which is a good sign! Himself is outside walking up and down the landing marching to songs on his iPod. I can hear his trainers thump past on the tiles every minute or so ... strange times indeed.

Friday = steak night here now. I’d better put those fat steaks in the frying pan now on a low light!
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I’m glad to see you’re posting again Marydoll we all missed you yesterday and your humour. we need to learn sign language just cracked me up!

Gingster what an anxious time you must have had yesterday not being able to go with your husband to the hospital. Again, strange times nowadays when the poorly people have to ‘go it alone’. Hope his results are encouraging. I note some on here are missing the ‘g’ out of your name - I think they must be thinking of Cornish pasties!

? to you this morning Maw and Scentia what are you doing up so early? I’d have needed a lie in! I’m glad your first session went well on the bank. Well done that woman.

Hope Friday is good to us all. Keep safe everyone that’s the main thing. x

Gingster, our posts crossed. I hope your husband is feeling a bit better today. So scary for both of you and even worse, when you couldn't accompany him.?

Good morning, Michael and all GNs. The sun is out again in South Yorkshire. It feels wrong to ask for a bit of rain, but the farmers could do with it now. The fields are very dry. On line sessions with both my offspring and their significant others last night. DiL, front line NHS, was not feeling well, which is worrying. Hope it is something and nothing. Not much planned for today. I will make a curry for tomorrow and DH will clean out the conservatory gutters. Exciting stuff! Have a safe day, folks.

Good Morning all
Another lovely sunny morning here , some plants in the plastic greenhouse are thriving , others are still dormant , one sweet pea has died ! Mini tulips in the border are in full bloom
Delighted to see Marydoll back , must confess I find her maths beyond me ?

Good morning from another bright and sunny morning in mid-Notts. I had a bit of a wobble yesterday - really out of sorts. However today is a new day and I'm going to keep myself busy knitting covid hearts following an appeal from our local hospital. Stay safe and may Friday be kind to us all x

Good Morning from another bright and sunny Black Country.

More work in the garden yesterday, it has never looked so good and we have been here 7 years now!

My DD lives in a Staffordshire village and sent photo's of a 5 mile 2 hour walk they did. Lovely photo's, of the surrounding countryside. The girls were not impressed though by the length of the walk. Apparently they took a wrong turn so it was an accident it was so long.

As others have said, I too am missing the social contact of my U3A groups, walking groups and meeting friends for coffee/lunch. Also it goes without saying, my family too.

Wishing Mr Gingster well, you certainly did the right thing in calling the paramedics Gingster

Pleased you are back and feeling a little better Marydoll

Wishing you all a good day, with special love and thoughts to gilly

Good morning everyone from a very sunny Northampton, so I shall be spending time doing a few more jobs in the garden this afternoon. Will probably trim the back grass edges. Will be putting some of my winter wardrobe away this morning, and getting summer stuff out, probably washing some of it to freshen it up.

Could feel a wobble coming on yesterday afternoon, so took myself out to trim the front hedge. One of my neighbours happened to be out on his drive across the road and a 5 minute chat/shout and a bit of banter really cheered me up. Too much time to think when I'm on my own is my problem, I think. I was fine for the rest of the day. Anyway the hedge looked good afterwards, and I managed to get rid of a lot of weeds growing underneath it. Must now spray the weeds on the drive.

Sainsbury's delivery this afternoon. They've just emailed me to say there is only one substitution, a 4 pack of batteries instead of the 12 pack I'd ordered. Everything else is there. Oh, except for the bottle of red wine! But I think I have enough in!

Hoping we have a good day.

Re his hair Marydoll. I now understand why the pudding basin cut was popular. Easy to cut around something and the alternatives , spiky and through- a- hedge- backwards looks never caught on.
Did you see how Nicola managed her own?'
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/nicola-sturgeon-cuts-her-own-hair-after-husband-offers-brave-lockdown-haircut-2536529