Good Morning Tuesday

Good morning from the NE coast where we have another cold, windy and dull start to the day. It doesn’t feel like May at all .

Spent most of yesterday hanging on the phones and Barclays even broke their own record by taking over 4hrs 40 minutes to pick up. Not that they had anything of any sense to say. Just the same old crap . It seems that despite banking with them for 26 years they need to confirm my identity . The catch is (there’s always a catch) that not just anyone in good old Barclays can do this , just one extremely illusion person that has no name and no direct number. You really couldn’t make it up. I have started to quote their scripted lines to them before they do. Its almost laughable if it were not so bloody serious. If I were halfway to going insane before I will be a complete lunatic by the time I get some sense out of Barclays.

Anyway my miserable life aside.......

A huge Gransnet Happy Birthday to Harrigran do enjoy your posh meal and champagne ? ?.

And to you too Marmight I hope you have as lovely a day as possible.

Thank you for reminding us of our missing friends Marydoll . To Annsixty, Dragonfly and Auntieflo I hope you are all okay (under these awful circumstances) .

Welcome to this mind and Gentle Good Morning thread NannyJosette and to Julto . I look forward to seeing you posting often.

To everyone. I hope Tuesday is a kind enough day to us all. Do take care and let’s all be lerts.
Love Gillybob xx

Happy Birthday toHarrigran and Marmight ?

Welcome NannyJosette and Julto. I have been a member for a while but dont post a lot partly because I am not usually up and running this early in the morning. As Marydoll says this thread and Soops kitchen are kind and supportive threads.

Good morning to all from East London. I had great difficulty in getting to sleep last night, still awake at 2am so decided to come down and have some cereal and paracetamol. It was freezing! I filled a hot water bottle and went back to bed . Not sure what helped but fell asleep and woke at 8 !
Feeling sad as not sure the holiday with my sister and family in Cornwall at the beginning of July will happen now ☹️.

Good morning from the Shropshire borders where it’s a chilly start to the day.

Welcome to NannyJosette and Julto??

Nothing planned today,will just take the day as it comes.

Happy birthday to harrigran and marmight????

Hope today is a better day gilly.

Sending good wishes to everyone for a good day and thinking of dragonfly,BlueSapphire and all our good morning friends who are having a break.Hope you are all doing ok?

Good morning NannyJosette and Julto and welcome to Gransnet. Whereabouts are you Julto?

Good morning Auntyflo and all x

Good morning to the newbies. Take it slow and easy and find your way around.
You will find this and Soops Kitchen are the best threads to start with, kind and supportive.

Ive just heard about this group on breakfast news so thought I would try it

Me too, good morning, NannyJosette

Good Morning everyone, I have just joined, this is my first ever post

Good morning from sunny Bristol, I have just joined gransnet.

Good Morning All x
Bloomin' cold still with " April " showers, wouldn't be surprised if there was snow mixed with it, still, I won't be going anywhere.

This social distancing hasn't applied to my GS going to work as nothing changed and there's always been 4 in the car on his way to work with all passengers in different directions of pick-up. I only realised this yesterday, but all are safe and well. They are key workers.

_just devoured my crumpets, scrummy. Banana and strawberries later then saus. bacon and egg for " high "tea. That's today sorted.

Hope Gillybob feels slightly more human today with hopefully some results x
Happy Birthday to Harrigran x
Marydoll I also hope you feel a bit easier today x Everyone with stresses and strains, chin up and stay safe. xx

Morning all from a glorious sunny north Wales and happy birthday to harrigran and marmight

Plumber coming to service the boiler and instal new towel radiator so I’ll settle down in the conservatory whilst he cracks on then wipe everything like a dervish when he goes!

Heard from a policeman that hundreds were turned away at the border last weekend and that was before the message that you can drive to exercise in England came on Sunday!

Stay safe all x

Good morning, Michael and all GNs. The sun is shining in South Yorkshire but it is very cool this morning. One out of two isn’t bad! A pile of ironing for me, and maybe a bit of baking. I also have to go to the pharmacy to pick up my medication at some stage.
Happy birthday, Harri, and Marmight too. Have a lovely birthday, ladies!???. Stay safe, folks.

Good Morning from Fife, it is a sunny day. Happy Birthday Harrigran I hope you have a lovely day. My thoughts are also with Gilly, it's times it was all getting sorted, I hope it's very soon. Marydoll I hope you get some respite today away from your troubles yesterday, try and relax and enjoy the sunshine. Lara from Gransnet is presently on tv talking about our forum, nice to see/hear her. Well folks I hope you all have pleasant day. Enjoy!

Good morning all from sunny Staffs-happy birthday to the birthday girls and do hope those with troubles can sort out whatever they can.
There was a new poster the other day “newly widowed “.
I’ve not seen her since-hope she’s ok, such a poignant post-“no husband, no holidays”.
Everyone is supportive on here and, as a lurker, I do appreciate hearing from everyone all over the place.

Good morning from sunny Colchester. The heating is back on here too.
Another day of same 'ol...

Happy birthday harrigran and marmight?

Good morning from Malta where the sun is shining and the sky is blue. In fact, when I opened the shutters earlier, I broke into a chorus of ‘Oh what a beautiful morning’! I can’t sing and it alarmed the dog, but I enjoyed it!

Many happy returns to Harrigran and Marmight. Hope you both have something to brighten your special day even in these circumstances.???

No plans today, I just take the day as it comes.

Wishing you all as good a day as possible and for those of you with trials and tribulations, I hope things will start to improve.

Good Morning from a sunny but chilly Oxfordshire.
In full nagging mode this morning!
My DH has been getting blue hands and toes (not every day but quite frequently) and just won't ring the doctor.
Happy birthday Harrigran and Marmight
Best wishes to all

Good Morning from a much sunnier Black Country.

I am puzzled why a hair trimmer has to come from China Mick surely we have the capabilities to make them here? This is one of the problems with the UK, we rely on other countries to manufacture.

Looks like from Wednesday we can drive to the Clent Hills for exercise! It is only a short drive from here. Also hope I can drive over to Mums and have a short walk with her (albeit socially distanced), as her garden backs on to the Staffordshire railway walk. Or is that not allowed seeing as she is 90? Confused.com

We are almost at the stage of ordering our shed now that DP has done a sterling job of clearing the space in the bottom third of the garden. There are so many steps down to there you can just about see the top of the greenhouse from the house.

Special thoughts for Marydoll and Gilly

Wishing you all the best day possible.

A better morning here on the Suffolk coast. What a gale we had yesterday! We were blown along the beach and then fought against it coming back. Phew! ???. The wind has dropped now but still chilly. Bright and sunny though.

Had some lovely phone calls from friends and family. DH says I’m always on the phone. No one phones him and he calls no one! ?. It’s so nice to catch up. Everyone said the same about Boris’s speech. Not clear enough.

We might drive to our local forest today as we have t been there for 8 weeks. I want to see rodedendrums (spelling?) or have we missed them?

Managed to get a grooming appointment for little pooch for next week. She looks so shaggy and unkempt. Just like us really ??. At least one of us will look beautiful .

Have a good day one and all. ?

Happy birthday to * harrigran* and * marmight* .???
Have a lovely day.

Good morning Mick and all from a sunny, but chilly Glasgow.

Thank you all for you kind words and PMs yesterday. I'm sorry for spoiling this lovely thread with my troubles.
Unfortunately, things are not quite resolved yet , due to technical issues at Virgin.
My sister in law decided she was coming to visit yesterday, we had to say a firm, "No!". She is still oblivious to the enormity of what she has done.
I haven't contacted her son yet, I want to wait until everything is sorted, before I pass everything over to him. Also I was too angry and afraid of what I would say.
I spent most of the day in bed, as my angina was so bad, I was afraid I would end up back in hospital.☹️, Which is the last place I want to be!

Hopefully today, I will get my leeks transplanted. The only difficulty is that, I have a problem finding a place to put down.
Before lockdown, we were planning to build some raised beds, but that's not possible at the moment. Previously I used growbags, but didn't get great results.

If I feel ok when I get up, I will post a maths puzzle. I want to say "thanks" to my special pupils for keeping things going in my absence on the inset day. ?

Thinking of our dear Gilly and Dragonfly, Auntieflo, and Annsixty, who have been missing from the thread.
Take care everyone.

Good morning from East London, blue sky, sunny and cold; I’ve given in and put the central heating on for a while. Walk yesterday included another large area of green we hadn’t been on before; DP had to go for a blood test so we just kept on going to link up with part of a walk we’d done previously. I’m not convinced my tomato plants are sufficiently hardened off so they go back into the side walkthrough over night; puts a few extra steps on the Fitbit. Today, the desk drawers will be tackled and then I’ll need a walk. Have a good day.