Good Morning Wednesday

Good morning all from mid-Notts - seemingly changeable weather so far this morning. Bright sunshine one minute followed by dark cloudy skies. Today we should have been travelling up to Gretna Green for mine and DOHs wedding tomorrow, followed by a leisurely 3 week drive around the North Coast 500 taking in all the beauty of Scotland. So sad this has had to be put on hold but in the grand scheme of things if this is the worst that happens for my family ..... So tomorrow is our "not wedding day",!! New pjs (for a pj day), buttonholes, tartan bunting, champagne and a meal delivered in from a local pub. Making the best of things and we didn't want the day just to pass and we will look forward to when we really do it properly (not in pjs!!) & become Mr & Mrs!! Bedding to change this morning and macaroni cheese for tea tonight. Stay safe everyone and may Wednesday be kind to us all x

Good morning from a bright Morecambe Bay where the easterly wind continues to blow cold air.
It’s 12 months to the day since DH had major surgery for cancer. What a nightmare that day was and the complications which followed. It seems an eternity away from that now as he is doing so well, and virtually back to full strength.
I’m in a dilemma what to do about meeting DS2. It’s his birthday on Monday but as he’s been in work throughout lockdown I’m reluctant to meet up even though I desperately want too.
Thinking of poor Gilly. ?I think my language would be choice if I had to put up with all she has too and for so long now.
Some gardening later and our ‘gym2’ exercise routine. Yesterday was yoga, but I couldn’t face it! Hopefully will do better today. Stay safe and take care everyone.?

Very late good morning from East London . I gave up last night and took one Nytol , and slept well until 8.30 this morning . Feel hungover though !
Big day today I’m meeting my son in the park with a flask of coffee . The twins will also be there riding around on their bikes . I think the government information is very ambiguous - my daughter can apparently go back to having her after school club ( she’s not though) but can’t see her extended family !!

Good morning from the Shropshire borders where it’s another chilly start.

Another day of nothing planned but am quite enjoying having a restful few days.I have nearly finished the book gilly recommended,have really enjoyed it and have a few more books lined up to read.

BladeAnnie,enjoy your day tomorrow and I hope it won’t be too long before you can have the wedding and honeymoon you had planned.??

Gilly,please don’t stop posting.We are all here to support you and like many others admire the strength you have shown dealing with everything you have had thrown at you.Don’t let one person keep you from the support of all your friends here on the good morning thread???

Have the best day possible everyone.

Good morning all , weather here in Devon this morning is sunny but fair bit of cloud & windy again

My washer/drier decided to pack up late last night, tried to book engineer on line but gave up at about 1.00 am. Started again this morning, finally success, booked for next Tuesday.

On a brighter note, hopefully a day in the garden battling the weeds or sitting in the sun

Good morning all from a beautiful a sunny day in Glasgow, still a nip in the air though.

I must be uncouth too gilly but no one has been petty enough to bother when I have used the odd swear word over the year’s on GN. Silly bugger.

Have a pleasant day all.

Good morning Mick and the GM team, from grey east London.

Before I say anything else, I must add my voice to the myriad others encouraging gillybob to continue to post and vent, in whatever manner is most useful and comfortable.
We are all grown women (and men, of course) on this thread and can absorb some colourful language from one of our number. Reading the thread at any time, it’s clear the support for gillybob and her family, in the face of unbearable challenges, is widespread.

I find it utterly ridiculous that she should be branded ‘uncouth’ and feel discouraged from joining in Mick’s lovely thread. In fact I think it’s a load of sh*t - there, that’s me in the ‘uncouth’ corner too.

Gillybob pay no attention to your detractor, who is massively outnumbered by your Good Morning friends. We will always welcome you here, in the best spirit of our favourite thread.

So, good thoughts to all, have a nice day and ‘let’s be careful out there’. ?

Good morning from a breezy Market Harborough.

Another day of this lockdown. Stay safe and sane. X

Good Morning from an cloudy, chilly, N.,Cambs.,

I got excited when I saw Hermia46 mention the rhododendrons in bloom.
I hope to get to see the ones near Sandringham, on our day visit to the N.W.Norfolk coast, in the next couple of weeks.

I saw no problems yesterday, your virtual friends support you Gillybob, .

Good wishes to you all.

Good morning everyone from a warm but grey S of ?? France.

Brilliant idea, BladeAnnie, much more fun than being sad and, as you say, if that’s the worst that happens.....there’ll be another time for another celebration. Really happy for your planned wedding but meanwhile enjoy your Unwedding Day. ?

Appalled to hear about the protected trees, Marydoll, the wrongdoers and the contractor deserve heavy fines.

For all those who can, I hope you’re finding some comfort in some relaxing of the lockdown rules. Apart from the ‘confusion’ which seems to have been created as the Govt struggles to create a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, there remains the thorny problem of not being able to pick up on life exactly as before. That’s going to take a lot of hard decisions, trial and error, major changes and annoyances in our lives. And the cost of all that ?!! Most of us can embrace change if we have choices. In this it’s becoming increasingly obvious that some hard decisions must be made and everyone will have to accept them. Life can’t be the same...and I struggle with that ?.

Had my day of freedom yesterday. ( The first real day out we cancelled due to rain stopping play! ) We needed to collect some shrubs we’d ordered last week. Glorious day, glorious display at garden centre. Could I stop and browse? Mais non!
Customers wearing masks, not too busy, everyone keeping their distance. Staff wearing masks or plastic face shields.

Then I spotted a selfish elderly couple, no masks, no acknowledgement of others, what social distancing? He was really good at talking to his constantly moving partner from the middle of each walkway, doorway, and constantly making people move away. Two other women, 50 maybe, no masks, separately ignored floor markings at cash desk. One was seriously told where to go by a customer upon whose shoulder she was almost parking her rose tree. The other one attempted to stand next to me and was told loudly to get away. All this happened in the indoor section of the centre! What should have been a lovely little trip after 7 weeks was spoiled.

The shop was so wrong in not making the rule for all. The French need rules, even though collectively they can revert to pre-Revolution times if they all decide to protest, but yesterday was simply a case of a few spoiling things for the many.

Hope that life is getting better for Dragonfly and Dexter. Keep soldiering on, Gilly but whatever you say or do, remember not to criticise those helpful people at your bank .......Barking at Banclays is not the thing to do. On this thread, you must never show any real emotion and, above all, never be uncouth!!

Take care and to everyone stressed, distressed or unwell, let’s all try to help each other for as long as it takes. Stay safe and have the best day you can. Bises/Kisses from France ?

See all the support here, gilly, you are among friends.

I worry a bit that all is not well with eazybee to react like that. I hope she/he is ok and will let us support her if it helps.

@gillgran...spot on it is Sandringham...they are a picture at the moment. I was being a bit coy, goodness knows why, daft twit

Good morning from a sunny and bright East Midlands. I got the washing out this morning and even managed to water all of the plants before 8am! So chuffed. DH out on our weekly food shop and the fridge has been washed out ready for the new supplies. I haven’t been too good for the last couple of days but feel a lot better now. Wicked heartburn though and nothing seems to be shifting it.

Stay safe and sane and have the best day that you can.x

Many of us are very good at hiding the fact and don’t share that not all is well with our lives at the moment kitty but I thought, considering all gilly is still having to endure, support and understanding as opposed to a nasty insult to add to her stress wasn’t the best tack.

I am simply looking at this from both sides.

Morning whywhywhy ?
Good to have you back! x

Kalu, that was my point really. We are here for gilly as I'm sure she knows.

I was just wondering if all was well with eazybee.

Welcome from me too, why, why, why. Glad to see you posting again.

Kalu, I too wondered if the poster who upset Gilly was upset about something in his/her life and the uncouth remark was a knee jerk reaction.
Not everyone (is like me), blabbing their stress all over the thread, we don't know what others are enduring.

As for the trees debacle, every resident in the two developments bordering the common ground and lane, will be lettered by the local authority concerning the protected status of the tress and we have been assured the police will press charges.
The trees are well marked on a map of the town, as protected. So there was no excuse for the destruction.

Good morning from north of Scotland, 4 seasons in one day again. Spent yesterday sorting out someone else’s hiccups. Someone who would normally coped and not needed any help just hit a wall because of the isolation. It actually distracted me and the day flew past, finishing with me actually achieving something. I have a zoom fun quiz tonight so will “see” my friend. I might have to wear a hat because I have exercised the hairdressing scissors. Never mind, it will grow back.
marydoll I am in high dudgeon about the trees. I could write a book about Neighbours v. Trees. I won’t as it would be full of uncouth words and phrases.
gillybob. Come here and be yourself. Part of visiting this post is to support and be supported. I wish I had a magic wand to help you.
Have the best day you can everyone.

Good morning Michael Kitty Easybee and all who follow this thread. It is grey and rather dismal here in Warminster.
Dear Jilly. You who has given so much to everyone in your life now needs help yourself. Do not hold it all in. We are here for you without judgement. Life is not fair but you have had an overdose of it all lately.
Thinking about you and sending you energizing thoughts. One day you will hopefully look back on this nightmare and be able to put it where it belongs.
Many years ago we went through something similar. For encouragement there is a light at the end of your tunnel.
We are not living where we would like to now but have a roof over our heads and have our self respect.
Keep going if you can and see that shining light at the end of the tunnel. It might not be shining at this moment but it will eventually.

Dear gillybob I am not a regular poster on this thread but I do read it occasionally. I read yesterday’s thread and saw nothing at all wrong in what you posted. Most of us have had experience of trying to get through to a so called help line and the frustration of not being able to get through or talk to someone with some common sense is something most of us can sympathise with. However, what you have been through recently and the urgency of your needs goes above and beyond frustration. You have every right to say how you feel and how disgusted you are with Barclays non response. I hope and pray you get the help you need soon. Someone (I think it might have been Kitty) suggested Twitter. We had a problem with John Lewis a while ago and as soon as my DH said he was going to put a comment about it on Twitter it was resolved. It may not work in this case but it could be worth a try. Take care and keep posting.

I've just done it again! I could scream!! Somehow I have lost a post I was about to send. Dyslexic fingers strike again ?. Anyway good morning all from an extremely chilly Angus coast. Was just saying, before I so rudely interrupted myself, that it's been good to see the support for gillybob. The support she has had I am sure is what has given her the strength to keep fighting. But, like Kitty, I feel a little concerned for eazybee who also let off a bit of steam. We don't know what lies behind that, do we, but whatever it was, the last straw was located. Sending ? to you too. Marydoll nothing surprises me about people who have spent every last penny to achieve their dream home and think they have also bought the right to perfection - as they see it. But a respectable company of tree surgeons should have ensured all permissions and paperwork were in place before laying saw to wood. Sounds more like a firm of cowboys to me. Heartbreaking, because it will take many years for the trees to recover, if indeed they ever do. I am still studiously ignoring the clock, so next stop is coffee break before I clear up the breakfast things - everything will eventually get done! Have a lovely day everyone, one way or another ??

That was nice of you kitty as I too think eazybee might be feeling a bit exposed by all this today. I don’t like to think of anyone feeling ‘got at’ - neither her nor gilly.

Oh I sincerely hope I haven’t upset anyone or either of you kitty/*Marydoll*. Goodness knows, I can ramble on and also share my moans/down days. We are all different in our ways. I didn’t for a minute mean my post to have a pop at anyone who shares whatever is going on in their,lives.

Re the trees, I was pleased to hear what your neighbour did. Well done her?

All I was trying to convey was, even in my darkest days, I wouldn’t take it out on others with a nasty insult. That’s not who I am. Oh, I’ll stop digging now?

Good morning all from a bright but fairly cloudy Gower. Not that far away from you Goodbytoallthat.

Woke up in pain yesterday, which increased throughout the day so I dosed myself with pain killers last night and slept until 8:30 this morning. I woke up in even more pain this morning so am well dosed up again. I think the falls our of bed two nights in a row has caused some kind of injury, strange how the effect was delayed though.

Marydoll, I'm glad that there will be action taken over the trees. The tree vandal surgeon should not be allowed to operate ever again.

Don't, whatever you do, stop posting your usual posts Gillybob. Nortsat, your comment is absolutely right and great sarcasm Grandmafrench. It could be that the case that the poster (I do know who it was) ^ is^ having a tough time but there is no need to snipe at you. I don't think you were uncouth, I think Barclays are being pretty s....y in the way they are treating you and other customers! You have our (the vast majority) full support here.

BladeAnnie, I think you have the perfect plans for your non-wedding day ?

I understand those of you missing your visit to see the dreaming spires of Oxford. It is indeed a beautiful place. My WP has very fond memories of his time in University there, despite not exactly being the most affluent of students back then. It is quite an expensive place to live. He wanted to stay there after his completion but I started my studies in London a year later than him and he came to London to be with me instead. The rest is history as they say ?

I think I'm going to have to rest up today, I just hope my internet doesn't go down again ?

Take care all of you, be kind to yourselves ❤️

It was GD2’s 11th birthday yesterday and I am not in a good place today.