Good Morning Monday

Good morning from a dry Morecambe Bay. Hoping for a better week as I received quite a bit of bad news one way or another last week, as seems to be the case for many at the moment.
Gardening today - only a month left as I don’t work once the clocks change.
The flu jab does seems to aggravate existing conditions Marydoll hope you feeling stronger soon.
Stay cheerful and stay safe everyone ?

Good morning Mick and other morning chums from a now dry Anglesey following a heavy downpour ten ministers ago. The builders huddled in their cabin drinking tea, fortunately didn’t scuttle off. This lime rendering has been going on since the end of July with no end in sight. If only they’d covered the windows in a pink or yellow plastic instead of blue. All the rooms have a horrid blue cold hue.
Otherwise everything is hunkydory here.
Hope you begin to feel better soon Marydoll, nasty old flu jab but a necessary evil I suppose. The pots are super, I especially like the maroon one.
Your course sounds very interesting Maw, enjoy.
Wishing everyone a lovely day.

Ten ministers! Goodness me

Elizabeth, so sorry to hear of your falls and ongoing health problems.
Do you remember the last time we met was in a Gransnetter's kitchen, cooking up a Burn's supper, with Elegran in charge!
I do miss those lunches.☹️

Grammaretto, you don't have to worry, the pots are now turned upside down and stored inside DGD's Wendy house, awaiting completion of the master plan. However, I haven't quite decided what the master plan is yet!?
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Good Morning everyone from a warm and very sunny S of France. DH outside already trimming Jasmine to stop it blowing wildly and triggering our security light. Jasmine has done so well this year. The garden is now filled with the most wonderful perfume from the masses of tiny flowers on the Eleagnus hedges.

We too have endless flights of birds to-ing and fro-ing above the garden, Taichinan, often making enough noise to prompt the cats to look up. Lots of comical honking geese, winter visiting birds and birds packing up to leave. We live close to one of the many sanctuaries so the skies are quite crowded - even though the plane flights have become few and far between now.

Elizabeth do hope you have and use indoors a lightweight Zimmer. Whatever the reason for your falls, that would give you so much more stability and any falls can’t be nice or good for you...even with an electric blanket ☹️. Please promise to be extra careful?

Enjoy your trip out and a pasty from such pretty places, Pants - irrespective of wretched flu jabs. Feel better, Mary and maybe stay safely in sight....forget an MI6 career....but carry a spare pair of Jammies with you, just in case? and, should we crowd fund for some better binoculars for your nosy neighbour?

Hope home worries are easing Urms and so glad the panic is over, Scentia - that was a lot of stress for a very modest few days away! Enjoy yourself, Beauregard, bit of you-time to re-charge will be ? nice.

We’re so glad to be well away from mountain streams and raging torrents in the storms which SE France has had and desperately hope that those missing will just have found themselves on the wrong side of the border and involved in difficult communications in all of the chaos. Thank you to all who have asked if we’re o.k. ?

Have a calm, uneventful Monday, folks. If you’re doing stuff/not doing stuff.....enjoy, be happy and paint a smile outside or inside those masks?

Warm wishes and the usual big hug from across The Channel.

Good morning from Malta where we have an overcast sky and it is very hot and sticky. Similar to yesterday and not very pleasant. There is still a hot wind from the desert as well.

I’ve changed DS’s sheets and done two loads of laundry so far, plus done my aerobics. Now for a shower and then pop to the post office and back to watch the tennis.

My tv stopped working yesterday on all channels except ITV so I didn’t miss the tennis, but I hope it can be sorted out. It’s not the tv itself, but the service provider who seems to have an issue.

So sorry you are feeling lousy, Marydoll, plus getting locked out in your pj’s, all due to a nosy neighbour, was the icing on the cake.

Also very worried about our gilly. It’s been a while now.?

NanKate, so glad you had a happy time with your family. I can imagine what a tonic that was for you all. Did you manage to see any of Rafa’s match?

Elizabeth1 I am sorry you’ve had a couple of falls recently, but glad you are cosy at home, although the thought of an electric blanket makes me sweat! It’s too hot here at the moment.

Take care everyone and stay safe whatever you are doing.☀️

Good morning, Michael and all GNs. The sun is shining in South Yorkshire. We had a shedload of rain yesterday but not until after we had watched GS playing football, not far from where we used to live. They played well but lost. It’s the first time we’ve seen some of the boys since last season and my word, they have sprouted! Some of them are huge and even GS is a head taller than me now (mind you, just about everyone is taller than me!). We are off to look at laptops this morning☹️ (whether I will know exactly what I am looking at is another matter), and then if the weather holds, potter about in the garden. Have the best day you can, folks.

Taking DH to be tested for new reading glasses following his cataract operations so must finish my tea and get a move on. After two days of biblical rain this morning is dry and bright so at least we won’t have to contend with floods on our local minor roads. Otherwise a pretty blank week which I ought to fill with some useful,activity. Not sure what, though.

Hope our many posters who are up against it have a good day, and that Mr Marydoll atones for his sins in an appropriate way. How could he not notice that Marydoll was missing?

Good morning from Shropshire where it’s raining again.

We need to phone our boilerman and hope he has not retired??other than that another quiet day at home??

Good to hear of so many having had good meet ups at the weekend.Ellan, I hope you had a good lunch with your granddaughter.

Mary and Elizabeth, hope that you both start to feel better soon and Cherry, hope you had a restful night and are feeling brightervtoday???

Feeling very concerned about gilly?

Have the best day you can everyone.Thinking of all with illness and family worries.

Good morning Auntyflo and all x

Good morning everyone from a now sunny Glasgow. It’s probably chilly outside but a sunny start to the day is always a plus. The minus is, it shows up my dirty windows. ?

What a colourful arrangement of pots you have there Marydoll. Having another rotten night I’m sure you won’t feel up to potting them up just yet.
What a relief your DD and DGS had negative results Scentia

The last time I had a flu jab was six years ago. I watched the nurse choose the site and her aim was brutal, a very painful injection and a painful arm for three weeks. I have an appointment for the jab next week but I don’t suppose there is any possibility of the nurse allowing me to insert the needle myself and she can then push the plunger. The nurse doing it this time is lovely and she will probably laugh at my suggestion. ?

A white wash is already done and hanging out. I should be doing some housework but I want to make the most of a pleasant sunny day whenever they come along so I will potter about outside and enjoy the sunshine.

A pleasant day to all and a better day for all coping with worries/illness.
Please don’t forget, we are all here for you when you need us gilly?

Good morning All from a relatively calm but grey Polmont. It seems I'm not the only one having boiler issues. Mine is temperamental and decided not to switch on this morning but then would only work on timer. Time for a service I fear. I was up making pancake batter earlier as I have dgs today. His normal breakfast at my house is cereal but I thought we would have a treat today. Pancakes and maple syrup. I have his wellies and rainsuit so we will go out later regardless. I made a massive casserole yesterday and I have enough left for today and then I'll freeze the rest. Does anyone else put butter beans in a beef casserole? We've always done it in our family. My papa was a miner and he used to have beef casserole for breakfast. Apparently it was known as a miner's breakfast. Marydoll the pots are very nice. Your husband has a lot of atoning to do! I'm off to make pancakes for a hungry toddler

Good morning all,

The sun is shining at the moment, but it is rather a chilly morning. Still, wrapped up warmly to go out and it will be fine.

Not a lot planned other than routine household jobs and a walk to the postbox to post a birthday card.

It sounds as if you have had a bargain, Marydoll - how lovely.

Take care all, and to all our missingGM’s I hope today is a better one for you. ?

Sun’s up here! ? but oh boy it’s windy.
Good morning everyone from Malaga where it’s blowing a gale. Himself just unlocked the front door and because the patio door was open it was like a wind tunnel. Wowzer!

Our daughter just gave me one bell so I rang her landline. They are both wiped out with fatigue and she said that her temperature was high yesterday teatime but is okay again now. They keep having dips in how they feel. The smalls are well though, thankfully. A day at a time ...
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I’m concerned about our gillybob too. I hope she gets in touch soon, it’s been too long.

No plans for us today. Reading, watching some SKY news, might wash my hair. Whatever, I’m not going out in this today!

Hope Monday is good to us all. Keep safe everyone that’s the main thing. This virus is so nasty. x

Good morning everyone from a damp and grey north Kent where it’s just started to drizzle again. I have an ‘empty’ this morning as DH is playing golf. Not quite sure what I shall get up to!

Should be flicking a duster around and letting the hoover out for a bit of exercise, but think I will let the dust settle for another day or so. Will finish my painting and then have a walk to see DD and scrounge a coffee.

Hope those with worries and illnesses find some improvement during the day. Good wishes to everyone for a pleasant day. Stay safe everyone

Good morning Mick, Annie, and all.

Loved the Ministerial, and Biblical rain descriptions. ?
Anybody got an ark?

I must get a move on and start the washing machine, before the heavens decide to open again.

Had a very lazy weekend, and now don't feel any better for it, just very lethargic, so must speak severely to myself.

I am popping up a picture of GD wedding, but only a back view, as I'm sure she wouldn't want to be plastered all over GN.

Hoping that Gillybob knows we are all keeping her in our thoughts.
Have a good day one and all.

Good morning Mick and all his followers. We have had some rain here in Suffolk this man’s its still wet underfoot, so no gardening here today.
We did the school run this morning so a bit dozy now. I don’t do 6am alarm clocks these days! ?
Grandmabatty I put butter beans in beef casserole , then add cheese and herb dumplings- very yummy.
All well after our flu jabs here.
Best wishes to all of you with sore arms.

This man’s?? Morning!

Morning all from South Notts. It's a bit murky here and I believe there's a chance of rain. I may or may not go out later, if it rains I'll stay in and attend to domestic matters instead.

Hope all is well with everyone, especially our usual posters who are absent at the moment.

Good Morning All x.
Another dark morning with no brightness shining through anywhere but I suppose it's now to be expected.

Gee whizz I was tired last night for some unknown reason and could merrily have gone to bed at 8pm but didn't as I didn't want to miss my tv series at 9pm, nor did I want to wake at 4am either. Made myself a cup of tea, pottered, and livened myself up.

Settled to watch the Singapore Grip----and the phone went !
However it was D in Oz, she'd been working out the clocks and times as theirs has now gone forward making it 11 hours ahead. Anyway we had a good natter and at least the family are all virus-free which is the main thing.

I had another lovely surprise yesterday when another arrangement of roses were sent, this time by a friend who'd been a next door neighbour 75 years ago and who still lives in the same house as her parents before her. We've always exchanged Birthday and Christmas cards over the years as well as postcards from wherever we were in the country/world on holiday. I must set-to and write a thankyou letter.

A relatively quiet day today so I'll have a browse on Ebay to make a mental note of ideas for Christmas.

No visiting to Ruby-Lou as a couple of the staff where she is have CV so she can't have visitors for a couple of weeks.

Glad that tests proved negative for Scentia's family, always a relief. Hoping Urmston's family are coming along alright too.

Couldn't help but laugh at Marydoll's antics, but sorry the after-effects of the jab are still present you can do without that.

Blimey, another flurry of cards have come through the letter box----not complaining mind you, it's probably because of the weekend post which is invariably dodgy. All very lovely though and I feel so fortunate.

Thoughts to our absent friends and wish that things would buck up for Gilly, even just a bit x It can't last forever girl.

Keep safe everyone and try and enjoy the day. xx.
Believe it or not, the sun's out here now and it's lovely. ( washing )

Morning all from a brightish Kent. Not planned anything for today, might get to Waitrose later if DH has a mind to. I don’t drive so have to be chauffeured! Marydoll I love the pots very Alan Titchmarsh ? I love my garden too. Hard to believe we are already thinking about over winter care and spring bulbs. I noticed crocus or snowdrops planted a month ago are already showing leaves. Too early, away back to sleep ! Stay safe all! Hope you’re feeling better Marydoll x

Forgot to say Marydoll I hope DH at least gave you breakfast in bed to make up for his faux pas!

Good morning Mick and all who follow. After two days of rain in the Angus coast, it's raining again! But - OMG - I've just looked up and there's a patch of blue! Mind you it's racing off inland, chased by relentless rain and dark cloud coming off the sea. Hey ho. Big hug to you Marydoll, but the joyful vibes coming off those lovely bright pots should dispel some of your pain and discomfort. And I am sure Mr M is desperate to make amends for locking you out by collecting bags of compost and filling the pots for you ready for planting them up ?

Bit of not so good news yesterday from one of my tai chi ladies whose DD has just tested positive for Covid and the lady had been with her two days before her class I've decided I now need to cancel classes for two weeks to be on the safe side. So today and tomorrow will be a phonecall marathon But better safe than sorry.

Bellasnana I remember that humidity and the hit wind so well - I was always happy when winter came!!

Elizabeth do take care! Thank goodness you were close enough to reach your lovely warm blanket!

I think we are all beginning to feel the tension now of the ever-present threat of Covid. No wonder sleep is disturbed! We should probably all try to just "live in the Now" - easier said than done at 3 or 4 in the morning, I know! Unfortunately my Now involves myriad phone calls, so off I go. Have the best Now you can everybody ???

Ellan crossed posts. I'm glad your birthday is lasting so long, and your roses sound lovely. What a popular lady you are!

Good Morning all from sunny (and cloudy) Harrogate. Feel quite puggled this morning! My covid test kit arrived last night, so pernickety. Test has to be done the same day it is posted and our post is collected at 9am and has to be posted at least one hour before post goes! I was very nervous doing it and probably touched what I shouldn't. Too early for me!! Especially since I'd been awake half the night worried about it. Pantglas Llandudno is where we should have been just now - love the town and the Great Orme, missed the visit this year!
Gillybob hurry and get back to us, we are worried about you.
Hope everyone is better today than they were yesterday