Good Morning Thursday(New Years Eve)

Thank you Grandmafrench for your lovely words and Urms a truly beautiful picture, thank you and well done Manchester.

Good morning everyone on the last day of a horrible year.
I am also glad to see the back of 2020, so much sadness and trouble. Every year I say next year will be better, this time I can only hope so! We have the vaccine roll out, the B word deal is sorted, surely things are on the up?
I am another who is usually wiped out long before midnight (dratted chemo!) but I intend to try and have a nap this afternoon and stay up, if only to stick two fingers up to the old year (sorry pearl clutchers!).
Thank you all Gransnetters for your company, support, words of wisdom and help this year. I dont know what I would have done without being to unload on here!
Stay safe all and hugs to everyone.

Good Morning All x.
Brightening up after a cloudburst of hailstones again----it's too cold to snow here. Those hailstones would knock you out if you were caught in them, they're quite big and come down with a vengeance.

We've gone to tier 3 now from 2, so a hint for people tonight to do the right thing and stay in ( just as if ! ) I won't be venturing anywhere and will very likely be in bed well before midnight.

My word I'd have been lost without GN this year ! With Mick beginning the day it's given us all the urge to contribute our daily " doings " and as a consequence it's helped the year go quicker than it normally would have. Thankyou to Mick and All.x

I'm just watching a row of seagulls perched on a roof opposite all facing the same way quite a work of art as they all look like stuffed ones hahaha. Looking Westwards I think---I haven't got my compass to hand

A couple of nice big baked potatoes with grated cheese for dinner today, then I must remember to get some chunks of cooked turkey out of the freezer for my dinner tomorrow for a full Christmas affair. Whatever happens, I won't starve.

Soaking my feet as I type then a nail trim. I can reach alright because I haven't got any restrictions round my middle for all the eating I do.

Hope all remains well with everyone, stay safe and warm and be careful when out if it's dodgy underfoot. Soon be time to see the back of this year, another 3 hours in Sydney and what a year it's been !

Take great care everyone and I hope there's a beacon of light for Gilly.x
Marydoll, rest up hen.x

Morning all from a bright and sunny, yet chilly South Notts. Not much on today. in fact nothing really, I may or may not nip out whilst keeping to the rules.
What a year 2020 has been - we'll all be glad to see the back of it, won't we? Hope today brings comfort for those with worries or illness.
Here's to 2021 being an improvement.

Good Morning to you all from an overcast, cold & frosty Cambs.,
Nice to get the chiropodist, Mick, something I will have to find, (my lovely lady retired during the 1st lockdown, she wasn't a qualified chiropodist but did more than just a pedicure, she called it a foot treatment & it was like walking on air afterwards!)

2020 will certainly go down in history.....

I loved those words, grandmafrench, said all I feel.
All you kind people, on this gentle thread, have helped me through these past months.

Take care Marydoll, & others who are coping with illness, troubles & sorrow.

We look forward to a healthier, brighter new year.

See you next year !!

Take Care Folks.

Good morning from Durham. No snow, but a bright frosty morning - not a cloud in the sky.
No plans for today and in T4 now - so pleased we had our 3 household Christmas Day.
I echo good riddance to 2020 - which saw DH admitted to Hospital twice with Sepsis during his cancer treatment - so much ‘promised’ but so little achieved. It’s left his mobility a bit compromised and some memory problems. However, it’s a year closer to his eventual demise and it’s ‘when’ rather than ‘if’. Still, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow!
On the plus side - a 1st baby due in June for DD2, which will be challenging, to say the least.

Not sure if DH will manage to stay up tonight - usually exhausted by 10pm. I might shed a few tears having survived another year, then big girls pants on for 2021.

Thank you GN’s for this lovely thread. I wish you all what you’d wish for yourselves. X

Good morning Mick, Annie, and all.

We both had a disturbed night, so feeling 'not with it' this morning, and still feeling nauseous.

Loving thoughts to Marydoll, Harrigran, BlueSapphire, Lins,and CherryChezzy.

Thank you GrandmaFrench, for the lovely words in your post.

Have a good day one and all, and here's to a much better New Year.

Gosh, totally warm, friendly, optimistic and generally lovely in here. It has been a testing year indeed but here we are all set to kick it into touch. These messages have indeed brightened up my day already. Huge thank you to all contributors. May we all have a continuing day of comfort and joyful anticipation. Cheers.

Good morning All from Polmont where it's snowing. Again. They are big, meaty flakes too which are already lying on top of the earlier stuff. I've been to tesco and got all the shopping required for New year's day and beyond so the food is sorted. Ds is maybe coming over today which will mean I have to collect him. I had an unexpected visit from sil and dgs yesterday morning as dd was working and they were giving her peace. I'm going to have a coffee then get started on the Hogmanay clean. A necessary evil in my family. We're all superstitious about the house being shiny for 'The Bells'. And on that note, thank you for your company, your humour and your kind care over the year. I have appreciated it more than you will ever know. This has been a year like no other and I am fortunate indeed to have found you to share in this journey. Happy New year to you and your family when it comes.

Wow Grammaretto Gorgeous pic.

Crossed posts Cherry.Sorry you had a bad night the night before last?rest and hope you feel better soon.x

Good morning from a very chilly and frosty Shropshire?

DGD, aged 5 is staying and wants to have a party so we will be having an early celebration tonight.DH will stay up to see in the New Year but I will probably have an early night as it will be another early start in the morning.

Sorry you had a bad night Mary.Rest today?

Cherry,hope you are ok ?

Mick, thank you for this thread and thank you to all who contribute.It has been a lifesaver this year.

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

Good morning everyone from a brightening Gower.

2020 For the most part, a year to delete is in its final hours and many deserve ?for endurance I think!

My youngest great nephews' birthday today and two birthdays tomorrow, my WP and his sister - they are not twins. They are not alike either ?

I'm a bit battered and bruised (fell out of bed twice the night before last - dratted seizures ?) but not pulverised by 2020 this last year. So many of you have bravely battled your own way through the year, a year of many wounds, some quite crushing. Yet, you have endured and somehow, any old how in some cases, made it through! Once more into the breach and we will all face a new dawn!

Raise a cheer, 2021 is near. Let's hope! ?

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Good morning Mick and all

Cold and frosty here echoing Sar53 and gingster . My washing machine broke yesterday with a a full load of towels inside, it tripped the electrics also. I think it is terminal as DH was able to open the door whilst it was full of water (Oh yes water all over the laundry room floor!!). DD collected towels and took them back to hers. Cannot get an engineer out, so DD will be doing our laundry for the time being.

Marydoll sorry you are feeling poorly, please rest. BlueSaphire good news at the end of an awful year.

I too shall be hunkering down today, I will sit up and see in 2021 (DH will go to bed as usual). I have got a half bottle of champagne for the occasion (2 glasses) this time last year I was not drinking waiting for DD to go into Labour, what a first year that darling boy has had.

Thank you for sharing 2020 on this lovely gentle thread, the ups, the downs, the sideways slips along with the smiles.

Keep safe, well and warm looking forward to better things ??

Good morning Mick and the GM team from east London, where the temperature is 1.

Bluesapphire great news and a good idea to toast it with fizz. Mary wishing you a comfortable, restful day.

A bit of housework today and then a walk. This will be the first New Year for a long time, that we haven’t been out eating a nice meal cooked by someone else!
We have rump steaks and asparagus for supper and a bottle of champagne.
We seem to have quite a lot of mince pies and Christmas chocolates still to eat ... so we will manage some of those today too.

I am not sure whether we’ll stay up until midnight, it seems like the year in which we might not.

Good thoughts to those facing challenges and with poorly loved ones. Stay safe and warm and we will greet each other next year. ?

Well, we’ve stuck with it, laughed and cried, moaned and cheered and muddled through a beast of a year together. I couldn’t imagine being with a more kindly, warm hearted, generous and brave bunch of people during some really difficult times.

I've only looked in here a couple of times but those words from Grandmafrench make me realise what a haven (as someone worded it) this forum must be for everyone.

I liked amselerin's comment stay negative (in a positive way) and let's hope 2021 will be a better year for all.

Good morning from a cold and. dark S Lanarkshire. We had our first transatlantic zoom call last evening which was of course chaotic but lovely to actually see everyone.
A quiet day today, time for reflection and hopefully not brooding, time, for me at least, to try to be thankful for all the kindness I have been shown in the course of this year and of course for the news about the vaccine.
Finally thanks for all the new Gransnet friends and the feeling of belonging to a community when it was hard not to feel alone. Hopes and love to all of you.

Morning all from a cold, wet two-tier-escalated-overnight south Cornwall. From 1 to 3, and yet the visitors are wandering around without masks. I wish they would go home. My patio swing seat is frozen stiff and covered in a sheet of hail. That's as far as the white stuff goes here. Please send snow!!!!

I'm not usually a fiction watcher (the original Poldark was the last one I saw) but found a box set of Downton Abbey in a charity shop, the first three series. Oh dear I am addicted!

I don't celebrate New Year's Eve, but I do wish you all the best for this coming year. It will be what it will be.

Happy Hogmanay from the Scottish Borders. It's far too cold for any revelries but I will surely raise a glass tonight to you all. Well done to us for surviving this awful year.
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Good morning Auntyflo and all x

Good morning from North Yorkshire. It’s been very frosty overnight. We are now in Tier 3. Infection rates around our borders with previous tier 3 areas have rocketed. Must be all the gyrating!
Ironing this morning then jigsaw etc later. May go out for a walk if the frost gives a bit.
Take care everyone and stay safe.

The field behind us is white with frost which is sparkling in the sunshine; the few dog walkers look cold but the dogs appear to be happy - good thing someone is! Warmer in bed so we will have a slow start as there is nothing demanding attention, though the car tells me that the battery in the key is running low so may go to the garage to sort that out. Can’t think of anything worse than being stuck at the supermarket with a car I can’t open and a trolley full of shopping.

So sorry Marydoll is feeling so poorly. Whatever else we hope for in 2021, better health for her and various GNers on the Good Morning site has to be top of the list. We all need some good news soon - a date for vaccination will be a welcome new year gift.

Good morning Mick and co. It’s still snowy here in S Lanarkshire with more to come by the look of the sky.

A couple of our neighbours invited us to join them outside, from a distance, for the bells tonight but I’m not sure that I want to or that DH will be able for it. We will decide later.

All the best for the bells you lovely people, let’s hope 2021 brings better times.

Good morning all.
Very snowy here this morning although not coming down now.
My GD has gone into work for a few hours for what may be the last time for the foreseeable.
It depends on the top management and the decision they make.
I send my very best wishes to you all for a much improved and a possibly Covid free New Year, both personally and for the world.

I read in the newspaper yesterday that this image of 2020 has been chosen to be displayed in the city of Manchester. It made me fill up when I saw the picture. Next year we might go in and see it for real.