Good Morning Saturday

Good morning from a rather pleasant Morecambe Bay, though I expect it will get warm later.
Our next door neighbour called yesterday to inform us he was having a bbq today. We are always invited but don’t go. He has these bbq’s quite regularly for his large family, but has the music machine in his garage which is where they congregate to do drunken karaoke usually till midnight. DH usually puts our music on loud to drown them out. We did say we must make a point of not being home and take off somewhere in the camper, but tonight the football is on.....
I know people have worse problems and have this sort of thing all the time, so I shouldn’t complain.
Take care and stay safe everyone ?

Morning all from an overcast but dry (as yet) South Notts. It is at least a little cooler. Weather permitting I hope to get out into the garden to start the summer pruning of a few shrubs, starting with the two willows. I am trying to achieve an umbrella or lollipop shape.

Then, oh gosh, the ironing - I should probably do that first before it gets too hot or my energy depletes.

Most of the day it'll be feet up with the crossword. Look at your supermarket visit as an adventure Marydoll and I'm sure it won't be too bad.

Hope today is good to everyone, especially those with sadness or worries.

Good morning from a grey and damp NE.
Family were travelling to Ullapool during the night, hope youngest is okay as she gets travel sick.
DD and SIL have their 28th wedding anniversary today, don't suppose they will be out celebrating.
DH has gone for a newspaper, I have not been in a shop since February.
Enjoy the weekend.

Sun’s up here! ?
Good morning everyone from Malaga where it’s another beautiful morning ?

My iPad is running slow (matches me I suppose) and I could do with your expertise Marydoll! Too many apps running? The ‘little wheel of frustration’ is constantly whirring in the top right hand corner. Why is that I ask? Oh well.

Another day of rest and relaxation here. We booked a table at Pedro’s downstairs for 9pm a couple of days ago and asked Nelly to do her specialty - marinated shoulder of lamb with rosemary and garlic. She only prepares it to order, it’s not on the menu or chalkboard.

My sister & her husband are on their flight out here now. Exciting retirement for them after years running their own business with hardly any leisure time and very few holidays. They can now reap the benefit of all that hard work - a luxurious new penthouse apartment awaits them. Well deserved. We are SO different in our choices of lifestyle! #lazygran

This is my 3rd attempt at sending this post (whirring bluddy wheel!). It doesn’t seem to have enough oomph behind it.

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

Good morning from Shropshire where it is much cooler with rain forecast later.

We are going over to Cheshire today.My lovely niece got engaged last week and her and her fiancé are joining our bubble for a celebratory lunch??We are thinking we will make a detour on the way home and visit either Park Gate or New Brighton.

Marydoll I feel your frustration with the dispenser.If you are a regular patient they can see by their computer your medication is due,phone the surgery for a faxed prescription and issue the medication?hope the missing medication has turned up.

Enjoy your Tesco trip.I spent a fortune my first time back in the supermarket!

We have family coming to stay at the end of the month grandMattie and I have just counted up how many loads of laundry I will have when they go home!

Have a good day all.Thinking of dragonfly,blue sapphire,purple pixie and anyone else with illness and worries.Hope you are all feeling better than you were?

Thanks for your messages re GD’s disappointing Alevel results. Sorry if I seemed to blame the Scottish students for taking the clearance places before ours had a chance, Marydoll . Didn’t mean to offend ! ?. It was just what I had been told ! Also the demand is higher this year because of the downgrading. My DG has spent the last two days on the phone and now has a place at her 2nd choice of uni, subject to an interview on Tuesday. Fingers and toes crossed. Very stressful for our youngsters!

Good morning from a damp Suffolk coast. We haven’t had rain for so long and now we have family staying and more arriving today, it’s caught up with us. ?. Never mind, you can’t do much about the weather.

They swam in the sea yesterday and
I expect they will again today. We will have a bar b que under parasols and eat In the summerhouse and have a jolly time. ??.

I know exactly how you feel grandMattie - you love to see them but it’s bliss when they leave. ??. We do get used to our quiet times.

Have a pleasant day all. ?

Oh, Pant, I haven’t heard the word dhobi for ages. When I was a child in Mauritius we had a dhobi until we got a twin tub. They used to was our clothes in the nearby river, slapping clothes on rocks instead of washboards. Mark Twain took exception asking why they were trying to kill his favourite suit! ?

Morning all from cool Espana ?? where I’ve just popped kettle on . All that laundry yesterday means you’re chief dhobi wallah GrandMattie!

Nothing planned today so will just pop in and out seeing what exciting things you’re doing! We’re going to finish the last series of Breaking Bad so any more recommendations welcome, so enjoyed this one!

Stay safe and well everyone x

Good morning all from a cloudy, but muggy Glasgow.

Grandmattie, I'm exhausted just reading your post. DH has just asked if I wanted to strip the bed, but I couldn't summon up the energy!
However, the compensation for all that hard work, was seeing your lovely, but fractious family! We get used to them not living with us and it's a shock, when they do come back.?

The newlyweds have decided that I need to be re-introduced back into society and are taking me to Tesco at 7.45am, when it will be quiet. I don't know how I'm going to be ready on time! Getting off here might help. I have not been in a supermarket since 15th March. To say I'm nervous, is an understatement to say the least. ☺️

Once again yesterday, I spent hours trying to sort out missing prescriptions. There had been a system failure last weekend and they hadn't been recorded on the online portal. I ended up begging the doctors receptionist to help me after a number of lengthy phone calls with the pharmacist.
My SIL went in last night for his own, to unexpectedly be given mine along with his.
However, when he phoned me to tell me, half of the packets were missing, some only had a small number of pills instead of a lot more. No- one said anything about the missing ones.
Susan, close your ears for a moment!? I spent another lengthy phone call with a nippy (stressed) dispenser, who accused me of not ordering in time!? I used my conciliatory, teacher voice, which I used with obstructive parents and soon put her right, telling her that I had ordered a week ago and there had been a system failure. What a waste of a lovely day.
Rant over!!!

I had better get going, it takes me ages to get dressed and I must put on some make up to meet my public, they will have missed me! ?

Have a lovely day and hugs for our missing friends..

Good Morning everyone from a dry and gloomy Severnside.
Sounds like you deserve your rest today grandMattie.

I think I’ll take the hem up on a pair of trousers today. Never thought I’d see the day when I would have to do that. I must be shrinking. I have to make some amendments to my car insurance sometime over the weekend apart from that not a lot on for me.

Have a good day all ?

Needed = ended ?

Good morning from much cooler, grey E Kent.
We have absolutely no rain forecast. Again. It seems to skirt all around us, leaving soggy or even flooded areas.
Family left yesterday after lunch. Bitter sweet as it has been very tiring with fractious people all round, due to heat an£ stress of work (for the two adults), leaving us with the children surgically attached to their tablets.
DD stripped the beds which meant I needed up with 9 loads of sheets, towels, bath mats and napery. It finished me!
Boring, lazy day today.
Keep well and happy all of you.