What’s the best thing to happen for you in this last week?

Meeting up with my daughter and granddaughter when it was her 5th birthday . Met in a park gardens , had a picnic . Sad not to hug , but so good to spend a couple hours together

My DD asked me to come for a walk with her. Lovely.

Hearing that my 9 month old granddaughter can at last have her orthopedic boots attached to an iron bar removed during the daytime.bless her. She has had them on 23 hours a day for 3 months to correct her club feet. And a picture of her smiling.

tuller and nannaLyn - thinking of you. These are the really important things.

I hope you are both filled with strength and have plenty of love and support for your journeys ahead.
Good luck!

Seeing my 81 year old neighbours face when we surprised her with a socially distancing tea party for her birthday on Wednesday.

She’s alone in the world, no family at all, and needed a boost as she’s not been out of the house since September.

Her face when she saw that we’d made dainty sandwiches and provided fresh cream cupcakes for all 6 of us was a picture.

We got her a Kindle Fire Tablet so we can now video call when we can’t get to see her face to face (I’m disabled too) which I feel is a great investment.

Plus.... we gave her popping candy/space dust for the first time - she was astonished at it, drifted off to another world with a huge grin on her face, as she felt the candy popping off her tongue. When the popping had stopped she looked at us all and said ‘Isn’t that lovely - please could I have some more?’ Was hilarious

Yep, family reunion was indeed beyond joy. Wonderful. Gilly 1952, don't know your layout, of course but great success was my Girl Guide toilet dug out and screened (sheets) at the far end of the garden. Quite a novelty and perfectly functional. Anyone using toilet, disinfectant or otherwise, was an absolute no. vampire queen, WELL DONE. I managed something similar eight years ago and the improved quality of my life has been beyond belief. Keep it off and my heartiest congratulations. All positive indeed. Bravo!

The best thing for me was the birth of a beautiful granddaughter..

Like nearly everyone else, my best thing was meeting up with my son, his partner and their son. We went for a walk through the woods and had a picnic. It was lovely to see them and so hard not to hug them!

We have a system whereby GP emails prescription to pharmacy and then they deliver to your door. So a delivery arrives. A big beefy chap in a red t-shirt - not your normal pharmacy person. So I looked where he went and it was to an enormous fire engine parked across the road with a full crew on board. I grinned manically and gave a thumbs up to which they replied with thumbs and grins. Made my day. I see no reason this cooperation should not continue after lock down, they are sitting around with not much to do most of the time and the whole crew were there ready to take off in any direction if necessary. Maybe next time they will sound their nee-naa as well.

Carmel and NotSpaghetti

I'm so happy for you both and also thanks, NotSpaghetti. X ? ?

Three highlights:
1. Sitting in the garden with my daughter, my grandson aged 3, and granddaughter, 9 months.
2. Picking the first strawberries. Guess who ate them.
3. Reading all the lovely news on this thread. Thanks, really heart-warming.

Oh dear, I am getting a bit teary reading all these lovely poignant posts. Good luck everyone on, and waiting for, treatments. Good 'toilet' tips, thanks.
But do keep safe, and hygenic. It's still lurking. Going off to find a tissue.

It didn’t exactly happen to me but after nearly two months apart my grandchildren were able to spend a long weekend with their parents before my DD has a dangerous operation this month. They were all so happy for the 3 days.

We have had garden meets which have been lovely. The best thing today was, my neighbour’s medication hadn’t arrived so I parked in town to get it. The ticket expired at 11.09-a traffic warden was standing by the car as I arrived back at exactly 11.09 and he said he was glad I’d made it!
Thanks traffic warden-I know you have targets.

How I would love to be able to say "sat in the garden with some of my family at long last." Small apartment, no garden ...... but, hey hoe, our new, desperately needed, mattress, ordered on 24th February, was finally delivered yesterday, (Thursday). At last we may now get some much wanted sleep! Stay alert still and stay safe still everyone.

The saddest things are the loss of a very dearly loved friend, one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet, who was also loved by so many people, not to Covid-19 but through complications from the dreadful Crohn's disease at the age of 56 and knowing my beloved baby (!) (he's only64) brother is about to move even further away from me, a further 250 miles. Really heartbroken.

My boy called to say he is visiting this Sunday. I haven’t seen him since Christmas ? No hugs though ?

A BBQ at my son and Family’s garden to celebrate his and his wife’s birthdays and watching him and my 3 yr old grandson play in the paddling pool.

So many things! My Covid test came back negative ( so what I had was hay fever) * I finally got my dream imac * I got some lovely new clients I’m really looking forward to working with. * Another said she feels ‘light has poured into her life’ since she started ( one of the loveliest acknowledgement I’ve ever had).* It has rained for two days ☔️

Lovely to hear about all the new babies ? , loving meet ups ????, and happier times after the sacrifice of painful parting.

Seeing my grandson on his 3rd birthday in my daughters garden. Watching him open his presents and blow out the candles on his birthday cake.

Mine's a bit different. Living in a granny flat in the house of my only son and his family, I haven't suffered agonies of separation as so many of you have, and my heart goes out to you all. I don't know how I would have coped. My son is a lecturer at Osnabrück university, but is also a musician and has just released his 3rd solo album. He told me late last night that one of the tracks is a tribute to me. I heard it for the first time this morning (got up before the grandchildren especially to listen) and the tears flowed freely.

Sitting under a caravan awning and parasol on a friend’s driveway whilst it poured with rain with two friends having an impromptu afternoon tea for one of their birthdays, two bottles of Prosecco later, we didn’t care about the rain but we’d had a bloomin’ good catch up and a giggle!

Vampirequeen ?????
Excellent. Any specific plan? ( I'm on 16:8, no sugar or sweet stuff)

Seeing my DS social distancing for a walk and my DD1 and her DH and DGS1 and DGD for first time since lockdown social distancing on Saturday and Sunday. Looking after DGS2 as he is living with us - growing from baby to toddler, and waking us all this morning with "A... all wet" "Morning", "Granny out of bed" an hour earlier than usual - Sainsbury's nappy pants not as efficient as Aldi's. I say this out of exhaustion because DD2 childminder looking after key workers children only and although DD2 is a key worker, we are just under 65 so she said he is safer with us - not disputing this but DD2 works FT and it is tiring to look after 2yo full time after all these years. However I am mindful that many of you have not been able to see your families and we have part of ours living with us and the change between 23 and 26 months is amazing and has been wonderful (and frustrating - terrible twos) to be part of. Both DDs are making a lockdown diary for their children as I am sure many of Gransnet members children are. It is just very weird and unusual and different and not what anyone would have thought could actually happen.