Good morning everyone from sunny Gower ?
I feel like a naughty teenager, I woke up at 6:45am but because of the pain I'm in I took painkillers with my cuppa, I went back to sleep and only then woke up at 10:45am 
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I haven't got my act together at all!
Glad you had a really good birthday Marydoll, you deserved it ?
Wonderful news Sentia, congratulations to your DD and her DH.
Sorry that your hair trimmed is not what you hoped for Mick. My hair is so long now I can put it in bunches and it's quite possible that they could be ringlets if I tagged my hair ? ?.
It should be onwards and upwards with Dexter now dragonfly, you have done a Stirling job looking after him.
?that the adverse publicity on tv will shake Barclays up a bit Gillybob and you finally get what's due out of them.
Little Henry is in my thoughts Susan x
It'll be afternoon by the time I post this
Our garden is looking fabulous with the new, very unexpected, addition we received as a gift from my three great nephews. I beautiful fragrant Azalea. My WP was over the moon.
I'd actually better start doing things with the day, what's left of it, I think ?
Take care everyone ❤️
Late Morning Everyone from a very warm and sunny S of France.
Very interesting what you have said gillybob. Do hope that your DH will be tested - even just for the statistics and to help "them" work out what to do next!! Came late on this Forum to all of your suffering, but sounds as if you have been to hell and back quite a number of times (and that train is still running with your days spent on the dreaded B's).
I saw that our local Lab is running tests, for €15, if we're concerned we might have had the Virus already. I may just go and have the test because I was so unwell after Christmas, I couldn't walk a few dozen yards from the car to the water's edge. We shall see what we shall see.
Lunch today will be Courgette Soup with Rosemary and Parmesan, made with DH's fair hand this morning, accompanied by some soda bread which I made at coffee time.
Weather due to be hot and sunny next week and a drive/long walk/picnic is in order. We can travel 100kms as long as we don't stray into another department - bit like Susan worrying about straying into Wales? 
. Government anxious to keep us all in Zones and to avoid incoming sun and sea searchers needing a break from the restrictions in Paris. Big fines to pay if you are caught trying to take 'holidays' where you shouldn't.
Hairdressers are back in action! Hooray. Only needed one DH Home Haircut - he probably feels the same. She wears mask, I wear mask, big salon, very few clients. She stands behind me and doesn't touch me and only my hair without gloves after she shampoos it. She doesn't talk, I don't talk. (She never talks, she concentrates, so I won't be worried). Only difference now is no kisses. 
Have the very nicest day you can. We should all be very pleased with how well we are coping, in spite of the odd wobble. Let's stay Lerts together and stay safe.
Hugs from France. x
Good Morning All x
It doesn't know what to do weatherwise, very unsettled so far and cool with it. It's one of the inconveniences of living close to the sea where it can be quite " fresh " on the hottest of days.
Urmston and those of you who've spoken about CV has me convinced that it's what I had too. It took me weeks before I felt anything like human----and I never bothered a soul. To be perfectly honest, when I found I couldn't breathe properly, I was too scared to press my emergency link in case I was whipped off to hospital to die. I was throwing a concoction of rum and honey mixed with hot water down my neck.
What makes it more likely in my case was having mixed with my GD's partner before Christmas who'd also suffered a chest infection over the Christmas period and of course became hospitalized and sadly died. He'd have had no immunity because of his cancer but could have had CV in his system at the time. He would NOT have died with his cancer. It's too easy to say " underlying problems " !
I don't normally get ill ( ill ) if you know what I mean which is how I knew that this was different. I couldn't even walk properly. Then my step-D got it who'd stayed with me over Christmas.
Anyway, in answer to GabriellaG54's query about my menu for today, for reasons unknown it's fish, so I can either have a piece of salmon with new pots and peas---no fennel locally, or a piece of cod ( frozen ) with creamed pots parsley sauce and peas or breadcrumbed fish and chips. Either way it'll be fish because mum always did fish on a Friday Also the last of my orange cake so I'll have to make another one.
Must buy some lightbulbs as I forgot the other day after saying I'll get some or I'll be snookered if they all go together. I don't like those long-life things.
Sun's out so I might set-to and wash the bedding today and mop the front step with Zoflora anti-viral.
Glad Dexter is out of danger as I'm sure he must feel better in himself. It's always hard to know what to do for the best when it comes to pets and their illnesses etc.
Maybe Martin Lewis has chivvied the bank up for you Gillybob. x I'm sure they wouldn't have been happy at being named and shamed, especially on the back of their adverts " we're here to help ! " Let's hope so.
Take care everyone and those going out, take a Lert with you. Stay safe and well xx
Good morning from Malta. It is overcast today but very hot and muggy.
I’m about to do the ironing but need to summon up the enthusiasm. I have become very lazy since being confined to the house so much and need to take myself in hand!
Congrats to Scentia and family. Lovely news. I keep hoping for similar news from DD3, but she is having fertility problems so each month is another disappointment.
Wishing everyone as good a day as possible. 
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