Good Morning Friday

Good morning from the NE coast Michael and all to follow.

A bright start to the day.

I’ve been awake most of the night .just waited for Mick to open.

Take care everyone. xx

Good morning Mick and everyone.

The sun is trying to come out in Kent. Yesterday was glorious, warmest day so far and I spent a couple of hours sitting in the garden.
I don't expect much in the way of VE celebrations in my road as it is a main road on the very outskirts of town. If your doing tea in your front garden. Have fun.
Stay safe all you lovely people.

Morning Mick and Gillybob- you are very early and I hope you haven’t been up all night worrying Gillybob? Fingers crossed you’ve had some joy with those phone calls x

Happy VE Day to all - not sure we’ll do anything to commemorate but might sit out with a cuppa and some cake ? this afternoon.

We get news of lockdown here in Wales at lunchtime and I hope it’s not lifting as we seem to have lots of visitors already who really shouldn’t be coming to their holiday homes at the moment.

Stay safe everyone x

Good Morning everyone from Severnside where it is a dry and bright day.

There is quite a few houses in my road decorated with flags including my own.

I ventured to the next town yesterday and bought some compost and paint. I thought the road was as busy as it usually
is between the two towns.

Yesterday my SiL and I had a very long FaceTime chat.

Before I have my breakfast I’ll go out on my bike for a ride then potter and read. I’m struggling with my book.

Enjoy your holiday weekend plans whatever they maybe and SS all ????‍♀️?

Morning Mick, morning All. A light blue sky over our corner of Somerset. I’m sorry you had such a bad night,*gilly*, you’ve had and are having a tough time. It seems I’m a year older today. The lockdown and VE focus make it feel an odd one. Tea in bed shortly followed by breakfast if I’m lucky. Will join the 11am silence and the 3pm toast. Otherwise a walk and a sit in the garden with a book. A nice meal and a chilled bottle for this evening. Not such a bad day. Be gentle with yourselves everyone.

Lovey and bright here in West Berkshire

Happy Birthday Cornergran , enjoy your day .

Husband and son are erecting a shed today so I will be on tea ☕️ making duty .

Will observe the 2 minutes silence and put a remembrance cross in the hedge at the front of the house but no other celebrations here .

Have a good day.

Good morning Mick , Gilly and everyone. It's now a bit cloudy in Cheshire, but I'm pleased that I was able to see the flower moon last night. Things like that cheer me up in these strange times.

Gilly you are battling against all the odds to keep things afloat. Your friends on GN know how hard you've worked and struggled over the last few months and admire you so much. I know kind thoughts and good wishes don't get things done, but you are in my thoughts right now. Please take care of yourself.

After a bit of a down day yesterday I had a lovely facetime chat with my DD and DGS last night and I'm going to be more proactive today. I ironed scrubs made by my neighbour for the local hospital yesterday and felt as though I was making a contribution at least.

I'll enjoy a walk at .9.00 and try to stay busy for the rest of the day dong this and that.

Stay safe and sane everyone. for all. x

??Happy Birthday corner??

Good Morning all from East Staffordshire. Looks like another nice day today.
Happy Birthday cornergran
Off to work for a long shift over the weekend now. I have lots of VE Day goodies for the children!!
This time last year I was badgering my DSiL with phone calls about how DD was getting on in labour. He had to tell me and his Mum to go away in the end?? oh boy she did take a long time!!!!

Gilly ?

Take care everyone and stay safe today❤️

Happy birthday Cornergran x

Good Morning Mick and All.

A lovely sunny day here in South Bucks.

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Good morning all from the Scottish Borders. Gloomy here and looks like rain.
Sorry you couldn't sleep Gillybob perhaps a nap later?
Enjoy the VE day celebrations Mick
Happy Birthday cornergran I hope you have cake
No plans here yet apart from porridge.
Hoping everyone's day goes well.

Good morning everyone from a bright and sunny Essex by the sea.
A beautiful start to VE day.
No plans today, maybe a walk later if DH's knee is up to it. The latest in his painful joints. Hopefully he will be speaking to his GP on Monday.
I'm sorry you had such a bad night Gilly, for what it's worth ? for you.
Have the best day you can and stay safe everyone xx

Good morning Mick and the GM team.
Happy Birthday Corner wishing you good health and good times in the coming year. ?
Sorry to hear you had a bad night gilly ?

I had a work related Zoom meeting yesterday, which went well. I have a couple of hours of work to do, as a result.

My partner needs to take a trip to the PO, to post a parcel for me. I upgraded my phone and the wretched thing won’t take incoming calls. It’s got to go back ...

I am slow cooking a gammon joint today, we’ll have it with salad for supper tonight and the remainder will be eaten with cauliflower cheese.

Enjoy the sunshine all, good wishes to those who need them and ‘Let’s be careful out there’.

Happy birthday Cornergran ??

Morning All

A bit more cloud here this morning in the north of Norfolk.

We’re actually going out tonight - don’t tell anyone. Leaving our property. We’re going to sit on the low wall of the nearby Social Club and listen to Churchill and Vera Lynn courtesy of our local DJ. Taking beer and crisps and maybe a sausage roll. There will be other people there! (All social distancing of course).

Good morning everyone from Inverness. We had a lovely warm sunny day yesterday only up to mid afternoon though - then it got cloudy and bits of rain !
Yesterday evening we had another great turnout for the clapping for NHS and one neighbour playing guitar which sounded great. I don’t think there’s any celebrations planned for VE Day today though ..
Happy Birthday cornergran hope you enjoy your day ???❤️
gillybob ?hope you have a better day
Hope everyone has the best day they can especially everyone with worries and struggles, take care ?

Posted first. Read thread after (its the excitement of thinking of tonight).

Happy Birthday Corner! ????

And Gilly - perhaps its time to say the magic words - Bugger it - turn off the computer, unplug the phone, and retreat from the world for the weekend. Come back to it on Monday. It won’t have gone away, it won’t have changed, but you’ll be a bit stronger.

Goodmorning Mick and all x

Happy Birthday Cornergran ??

Gillybob please take some time out and rest ?

On my second walk of lockdown yesterday we saw lots of houses decorated with bunting and flags, one had garden table and chairs all,set up for afternoon tea in the front garden.

The sky is blue and it is meant to be 25 degrees and sunny today so lazing in the garden with a book is what I,shall be doing.

Shall observe the 11am silence and raise a toast for VE Day at 3pm ???????

Keep safe and well folks?

Good morning from sunny Malta.

Happy birthday cornergran, hope you enjoy yourself.

Nothing very exciting planned for today, just ironing, tidying, and the thing I dread most - washing my hair! I really am missing my hairdresser now.

Wishing you all as good a day as possible. Specially thinking of Gilly and others who are dealing with more than their fair share of difficulties and sorrows.

My parents were married on VEday + 4. It always meant a great deal to us, even though at the time we understood very little except that it was the end of “The War”.
No parties in our street I’m afraid. Old farts, uptight and proper, and all that...
Lovely day today. Nothing on again except that we shall be walking to the farm shop for our veggies. Asparagus! Two birds, one stone.

Morning all from a bright and sunny North Leicestershire.

Making a cake and some biscuits for our VE day sit outside. I'm trying to work out how we can share them with the neighbours safely! If I can't, we'll have to eat themselves!

Many happy returns, corner - have a lovely day.

Gilly, just sending love and hugs - wish I could do more!

Good morning from east London, bright, sunny and warm. Last night we had a brass quartet from a local church playing ‘happy and you know it, clap your hands’ with words slightly changed to fit in the NHS. They’re keen to have some percussion next week so the pan lids may have to come out. We dressed to represent a decade for choir last night; I wore bits of my old school uniform - beret, scarves and tie as that’s what I spent a fair bit of time in the 70s in. Sun cream is out again; it’s like proper summer with the air staying warm into the evening. My neighbour has decorated his house with bunting and flags; just hope people remember the fighting was still going on elsewhere 75 years ago even tho Europe had achieved peace. Walk later and debating if a big shop is due or not; the vegetarian in this family (me) is quite happy but DP is feeling a lack of meat. Have a good day.

Good Morning from a bright and sunny Black Country.

Another walk to the park and back yesterday, traffic on the ring road in our town seemed as busy as normal Mick no sounds but the humming of traffic!

Arranging a video call with two of my friends, one lives in Lincolnshire the other in Shropshire, we all used to meet up regularly when working in the same company until one friend moved. We last all met up physically in November, that seems like another world away now.

There seemed to be less people out clapping last night.

Hope you are ok gilly we all wish here there was something we could do to help you. A virtual ((((hug))) coming your way x

Wishing you all a happy VE day, I will be thinking of my Dad who was a Tank Commander in the War.

Happy Birthday cornergran