Good Morning Friday

Morning Mick from a dry and bright north Wales where the chicks in our nesting boxes have been twittering away for the last hour - noisy little devils!

Not a lot planned today after yesterday’s food foray- is there much more satisfying than a full fridge, freezer and pantry?

Have a lovely start to the weekend folks and happy birthday/ anniversary to anyone coming after me on the thread in case I don’t pop in later! Good to hear that things are better with little Dexter - now for young Henry to have good news Susan56!

Morning Mick and All.

Lovely sunny day today in South Bucks.

It must be a disappointment Mick that your hair trimmers aren’t what you hoped for. I suspect Hairdressers and Barbers will open before other shops, we shall have to wait and see.

Home cooked fish and chips tonight.

Morning Pantglas. Our blue tits gave up on our bird box and went elsewhere.

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders. It's sunny today.
Good luck with the hair cutting Mick
At least you have the tools. Bald people will at last be envied.
I hope to get some planting out in the veg plot.
Hope you all have a good day.

Mining from. Bright EKent. Still chilly though.
Off to the farm shop for Vegas and asparagus.
Painters coming in on Monday, and DH I s “sorting things out“! If ever there was a heart-sink expression that is it! Goodness knows when and hat I’ll find when this all over. I don’t help him as I would murder him, I think! ?

Morning Mick, morning All. Clear blue sky over our corner of Somerset. Feels cold, not ventured outside to check. Little bit of gloss to do and one unit to refill and the decorating is done. Forever if I have my way. Somehow there are paint drips to clean up. Apparently everything was covered . Laundry and ironing to do, phone calls to catch up with. Lasagne this evening with a very large glass of wine. Be gentle with yourselves everyone, take care out there.

Good Morning everyone from Severnside where it looks lovely and sunny outside.

Off for another try today to pick up a gardening magazine. It wasn’t in yesterday.
I got a lot of my sewing done and worked on my craft project so there might be a little more done later. I have to mow the lawn too or it will be too hard to push the mower through.

Enjoy the sunshine folks ?

Good morning Mick and everyone. It's a grey morning in Cheshire, but truly cannot complain as the weather has been lovely for weeks. The sky was a clear blue last evening, but cloud has rolled in overnight so it's warmer.

There are some very noisy crows having a stand-off with the squirrels in the garden and not at all like the lovely blackbird I usually awaken to.

I have decided not to touch my hair with scissors as the results could be catastrophic. I'll be able to have bunches soon.

Discovered last night that I hadn't saved the supermarket slot, so now the delivery I'd hoped to get next Tuesday will not be until a week today. Fortunately I have wonderful neighbours. I agree about the snacking Mick and I must have a rich tea with tea, but a chocolate biscuit with coffee.

Walking in the woods first and to feed the ducklings on the pond. They come to my quack now. I'm trying them on sweet corn and some seeds today.

Making bread later and will have some with homemade pumpkin soup for lunch. Will crack on with my painting and get it finished. I'm such a fiddler.

Enjoy the relative freedom if you are able to meet family again. Mine live too far away unfortunately, but will meet a friend on Sunday. Take care all.

Good morning Mick and all

Blue sky and a bit chilly here in S E Essex, clouds due this afternoon.

The excitement of the day will be deciding on our takeaway this evening, which means no cooking or cleaning up the kitchen for me.....yippee!!!

Keep safe and well folks ?

Good morning from a bright sunny Leicestershire.

Now I have stopped worrying about Dexter I really must do some housework. I saw my neighbour had her cleaner yesterday - is that allowed?

When can I plant out my bedding plants? It is still very cold at night here.

I hope Gilly has some success today and Mary feels better. Best wishes to all who are feeling down.

Good morning everyone from a bright and sunny Essex by the sea.
DH did the weekly shop yesterday lunchtime and was gone for 2 hours. He was not a happy bunny when he returned. We are finding so many items are more expensive and the quality of veg, especially, is quite poor.
Bed changing and washing today, a walk later and then probably get on with my latest jigsaw. I ordered a couple of new ones the other day as charity shops obviously won't be opening any time soon.
I'm still waiting for the prints of my grandchildren to arrive, I sincerely hope that they haven't got lost in the post.
Have the best day you can and stay safe everyone xx

Good morning everyone from a much brighter Inverness. There’s bits of blue sky and some high white clouds and it’s even beginning to warm up a bit ?

Our weekly clap for carers is expanding each week, last night we had drums , guitar and singing with all our neighbours joining in and waving across front gardens ! I wonder what’s being planned for next week ....

I had lots of carrots to use up, usually they’d do into a healthy carrot soup but yesterday they ended up as carrot cake muffins with a mascarpone cheese topping - yummy. Now I’ve got 8 rather large ones to eat up sometime! ....

I hope everyone finds something to enjoy today especially those with extra worries , wobbles and struggles.

Take care ?

Good morning Mick and the GM team, from a sunny but chilly east London.

Got quite a lot of gardening done yesterday and cleaned out the fridge... it’s the high life here.
Zoomed with a friend but we were both a bit downbeat, I think we’re tired of lockdown.

Dusting and polishing today and the silver needs cleaning. I plan a traybake with chicken thighs and chorizo for supper and a glass of Malbec. ?

Have a good day all, best wishes to those who need them and ‘let’s be careful out there’. ?

Good morning Mick and all his followers. Blue skies in Suffolk today. It’s always sunny on May 15th - DH’s birthday.
We are visiting our very well policed nursery and farm shop this morning for asparagus and manure, among other things.
I shall get a few bedding plants which it should be warm enough for in the next few days. Courgettes going out next week.
Hope today is kind to everyone.

Morning all!

As dragonfly says, Leicestershire is lovely and sunny though still chilly.

I must iron today. The door on the ironing cupboard is difficult to close!

Steak and salad for dinner.

Good morning everyone from a gloriously sunny Malaga ? where I’m sat in bed with a cuppa and Himself has just left for his brisk walk to Bateria Park and back. He’s gone for an hour and I like to listen to Radio Malaga. Equal number of songs in English and Spanish and I like the DJ’s in a morning. I cannot understand more than the odd word or phrase ‘buenos Dias!’ being the main one but obviously it ‘reminds’ me that I’m in Spain listening to the local radio with many of my neighbours! Once I tried an English radio station - Costa Del - and OMG the DJ’s were ex-Radio 1 jocks such as Dave Lee Travis, still promoting himself as ‘the hairy giant’ and I hated it - it was like being in a time warp.

Friday = steak and Rioja night. ? A change from Ribera tonight. Himself chooses as he does the shopping!

So glad to hear that Dexter won’t lose his sight dragonfly it’s been a long haul and a worry for you. Perhaps not too long now until he can go home. At least now you can relax as he’s over the worst. Bet you miss him once he’s gone though!

Hopefully you’ll have some positive news before the weekend gillybob. Fingers crossed for you.

I’m really enjoying the new Anne Tyler book I started yesterday and most unlike me, I actually laughed out loud on a couple of occasions! I shall finish it today (it’s only a 4hr read on the Kindle but I’m a slow reader and I’m savouring this so it will take me slightly longer). I’d definitely recommend it to you all. ‘Redhead by the Side of the Road’.

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

Good Morning all from East Staffordshire, the sun has got his hat on this morning.
I have a night shift tonight so I am having a lazy day today.

DD rang last night to tell us she was pregnant. So bizarre, as last week I had a dream that she was pregnant. She has always said by her DS’s first birthday she would be expecting again! Baby is not due until New Years Day. It is what we like to call a ‘Stay At Home Baby’ ? A bit of good news in this strange time.

Mick be careful with your hair clippers, if they are not professional ones they just ‘pull’ your hair out. Ask my DH apparently that is what it felt like!?
Hope everyone has a good day and stay safe everyone❤️

Good morning from Fife where the sun is shining but a tad chilly. It's so nice to get up and see the sun shine. I just said to DH under normal circumstances over these last few weeks the weather has been on our side so I am grateful for that. It lightens your mood. Also, we would have been away out and about enjoying the weather and taking our DGS's away places. Alas not at the moment though I hope when all this returns to normal we shall have the same opportunities to re-capture some of the times we've missed together. But back to today and will be baking my new found past time , not sure what yet. I hope everyone has a good day whatever they get to do, take care and keep your chin up.

Congratulations Scentia - how lovely.

Good morning from Hampshire. Sunny today. Off to Hilliers garden centre today for something to brighten up my front patch. What a joy to see the plants for sale again.

Good morning Mick and All. Very sunny in Worcs and birdsong is in the air.
Haven’t heard a cuckoo yet - has anyone?
I wish windowcleaner would come as bedroom windows are grimy outside but I won’t let DH go up a ladder to clean them.
Local recycling yard has re-opened, also garden centre and chip shop so it seems a bit of normality is slowly returning.
Fish and chips and a glass of wine for us tonight.
Have the best day you can ?

Does anyone know whether we can drive to our children's house to visit the grandchildren? In their house, garden or park?

Good morning from a sunny Morecambe Bay. I assume it’s cold out as the heating is on again. Must alter the settings as it’s not necessary as the sun quickly warms things up.
Congratulations on your lovely news Scentia
I’m off later to meet someone who is organising volunteer gardeners to take responsibility for an area in the church grounds. I have been wondering about doing this for some time but was afraid of standing on someone’s toes or causing offence by offering.
Then this afternoon we are off to a 100th birthday celebration. It won’t be quite what was intended but cake and Prosecco is planned, all from a safe distance!
Take care and stay safe everyone.?and special ?for Gilly

Hi HollyMolly. You can drive yes.
You can’t go in their house.
One adult can meet one adult or child, in an outside space like a park but must stay 2 metres apart.
You can’t travel or sit in a car with an adult or child from another household aside from your own.
You cannot stay overnight in a place that is not your home.

Have I missed anything gn’ers?