Good Morning Wednesday

Good morning all from Polmont where there is some snow on the cars but none on the roads, thank goodness. Drama at Batty Towers this morning. I was getting dressed,picked up my specs and they broke apart in my hands! Just call me Samson. Neither superglue nor sellotape would fix them . A dilemma as I need them to see and drive. Eventually I remembered keeping a spare pair and hunted til I found them. Which is just as well as I'm babysitting today. His dad isn't well and granddad is in hospital for a serious operation. So grandma day care once more. Happy birthday to*MrE*. Have a good day all.

Good morning all from a decidedly damp S Welsh coast, heavy rain during the night.
Cherry take it easy today, sending you a gentle hug*.
Good news Jaxjacky.
Happy birthday for Elizabeth's DH ?
Took the puppy for a walk last evening, he has a new waterproof coat, which has arrived just in time for Storm Christophe.
Fish for supper tonight, salmon for me and plaice for Mr L, with baby Pembrokeshire potatoes.
Hope we all have something to smile about today, but above all stay safe.

It seems to take me an age to post by which time I’ve missed lots of posts.

Happy Birthday to your DH Elizabeth1, have a lovely celebrating.

Good morning Mick, morning all. We have snow again here in S Lanarkshire, I’m quite glad not to have to go anywhere early.

Enjoy your curry Mick. How great to have such a beautiful building for your amdram performances Ashcombe,

Pleased that your worries were unfounded jaxjacky, you must be relieved. Cherry, that was a rude awakening, hope you’re ok.

Another day of not doing anything too taxing. Working on family history yesterday I got to the bottom of a puzzlement about what streets my Grandfather’s family had lived on. While I was looking at old maps a cousin, out of the blue, posted photos of our GGGrandparents marriage certificate on our Irish family WhatsApp group. Coincidence or what? That led to my mother’s remaining two sisters recalling memories of visiting an old aunt of theirs in the Dublin hills which was so lovely to hear.

Hoping everyone has a peaceful day.

Good morning all from a damp Glasgow, nothing exciting to report.
Mick, I know you like Chinese food, with that in mind, have you ever tried Mayflower Chinese curry mix? You can buy it online, from Iceland and I think its going to be available soon in Sainsbury's. I use when I'm under the weather and DH has to cook. It is foolproof, well almost! ?

What a beautiful building, Ashcombe! How lucky you are to perform there.
Last night I spent ages trying to sort my printer. I had run out of ink, (too many Dollie resources) , but because I'm enrolled in HP instant ink, it would not allow me to install a shop bought, genuine ink cartridge. Today I will have to contact HP to ask why the technology didn't pick up that my ink was running out and no cartridge had been sent. Now I shall have to link my PC remotely to DH's printer, that is if I can even find it in DH's man cave, where its usually buried under piles of books.

Speaking of technology, I wanted to be able to share resources with Dollie, during our home schooling Zoom lesson, so I decided to investigate how it could be done. You would have thought, having had to organise all the technology in school, this would have been a dawdle. However, I hadn't factored DH into the equation. ?
I asked him if he would help and pretend he was Dollie and I would teach him. So far so good, nothing is too much trouble, when it involves his wee pal.
So I sent him an invite to participate, which he duly received. In fact, in the end, I sent three! All to no avail. No, he couldn't get it to work. He still couldn't get it to work.......He...
Eventually I asked to see his device, he didn't even have Zoom installed, despite saying he had!!!? Things just went downhill after that! ?

Elizabeth, happy birthday to your birthday boy! I remember meeting him at the Burn's lunch in Jolly Gee's house and thinking how good he was to come and collect you. I had a taxi, two train journeys and a car journey to get home, but it was worth it. Happy times!
It is so good to hear how upbeat you are and making progress.

Wishing you all a pleasant day and hugs to all who are struggling. I'm off to read up all the implications of the vaccine, ( can't get any clinician to return my calls) it seems it's not as effective on people like me. ☹
Hazbeen thank you for the info you provided yesterday.

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders. We have had heavy snow overnight so I won't be going anywhere.
Such a relief for you Jaxjacky . Anxiety can build up and take over.
Have as good a day as you can.
Cherry, Beauregard,

Morning all. Wet and windy but mild (11.0c) here on the south coast.

Yesterday turned into quite a day for us. Having agreed to a jab appointment for 5pm today, at some distance away from home, we were eating lunch when another call came saying if we could go NOW we could have the jabs at the local Baptist Church, just down the road. So we abandoned our lunch and shot off and were back within the hour to finish our lunch! I made sure today's appt. was cancelled for us to leave it free for others waiting.

Other news, on the same theme though, DD and DGS both went for walk-through tests and I am convinced they will both be positive as they are in such close contact with DSiL who has full blown covid. Waiting for confirmation but not hopeful. We can't offer much help as we still have to shelter.

No idea what is on the menu today but it might be corned beef hash if DH fancies that. He usually does.

Thinking of all with health worries and other issues and still missing Gilly. Keep safe everyone. We will get through this.

Good Morning.

Good news Jaxjacky

I’ll make a fish pie today and have a look around for a ?. Hope you all find one too.

Good morning everyone from a damp and blowy Essex by the sea. We made good progress in our sorting of the utility room yesterday, will continue this morning.
I will also watch some of the inauguration this afternoon and hope that nothing kicks off in Washington.
Jaxjacky I'm pleased you have had good news. Cherry take things easy today.
I hope you all have a pleasant Wednesday, smile ? and think happy thoughts xx

Happy Birthday MrE ??

Happy birthday to your DH Elizabeth ? ?

Good morning Mick and the GM team from east London, where the weather seems fairly mild and it’s growing light.

What great news Jax. Cherry sorry to hear about last night. Lovely photographs Ash.

Today, I plan to attempt again to pay my outstanding Tax Charge. I have my Unique User Number, my log on password, my separate log in number and (hurrah it arrived yesterday) my Access Code. This engagement with HMRC has been going on since October. It probably feels like longer than that to the Good Morning-ers because I have been complaining about it since then...

I will do a bit of housework and then have a walk.

Have a good day all and for those receiving their jabs ... yay!
Take care and remember ‘let’s be careful out there’. ?

Good morning, Michael and all GNs. Grey and wet sums it up for South Yorkshire today. I was woken early this morning by a scam message on my phone - the second this week. I always delete them without opening but they put me out of sorts. I am making chocolate brownies this afternoon, just before my appointment with the practice nurse who will no doubt tell me to stop eating cake and lose some weight!
Your curry sounds good Mick - save some for me!?
Have a good day folks!

The birthday boy

Good morning everyone from a very cold bedroom today here on the east coast of Fife. Why I wonder do I feel this cold? When in fact the house is warm enough. I’ll work that one out when I get a look at the heating thermostat. Has my dh turned it down I wonder, he turns it down I turn it up same old same old. I had the best day ever yesterday I had a trip in the car with my ds and my dh to collect my ds prescription. Then back home to sit at the beach and walk a few steps along the flat pathway. Well away from anyone, Having my dh nag me to keep my head up and to stop looking at the ground when I’m walking oh well I suppose it’s for my own good.

It’s my dhs birthday today wish I could have given him a long lie in but I’m afraid the carers won’t allow that.they’ll be in here in a minute or two. I’ll just have to invite him to dance with me again this morning, it was so much fun yesterday when we had a dance of sorts to ABBA. Tea time will be interesting when we try to video it to send to our family they so enjoy a daily update no fivers in his brothers birthday card he asked for a lawn mower from me and a cuckoo clock from his son to remind him of our holidays in Austria where we had so much fun. The other presents are surprises he’ll get them later on when this household is fully awake have a good day everyone be kind to yourself put more butter on your toast

Good morning everyone from Inverness where we’ve had a light covering of snow and it’s very chilly out there ? If the paths are slippery again I might just stay in today ...
Yesterday we enjoyed a longer walk than planned along the south side of Loch Ness, really beautiful scenery. Half way round DD2 called stressing out with the homeschooling, she just wants to do it well but hasn’t much confidence in her teaching abilities and DGS is being reluctant to do anything he doesn’t like. I think she just phones me to get it off her chest share the problem etc. I can’t really help but hopefully I’m a listening ear at least
Take extra care at work dwmxwg and have a gentle day today Cherry
Hope everyone finds something to enjoy today and take care whatever the day brings ?

Good news after so much worry Jaxjacky

Good morning from a miserable wet day here in Derbyshire.

DH is recovering well from his surgery. He's trying to walk a little each day, starting with around the garden to venturing down the road and back yesterday for 5 mins. He's not ready for using the vacuum cleaner yet though so that will be my job today.

I think curry is on the menu for us too today. Last week I made a butter chicken curry (the one JO made for Claudia on his show). It sounded amazing but turned out to be really bland and slightly bitter I must have gone wrong somewhere. The leftovers went in the freezer so I might tweak it to see if I can adjust it more to my liking.

This afternoon I will walk out to see the girls ? and then probably watch some of the inauguration.

Have a good day all.

Morning all from a very wet North Leicestershire.

Our cleaner is coming this morning and dh and I will go out to collect his medication and run the car.

Final evening Carer's course, thank goodness, and not much else going on.

Good morning from a very dark Essex. Doesn’t sound too bad out there. Hope the people in flood areas don’t suffer too badly. ?.

Poor you Cherry falling out of bed, . I hope you didn’t suffer any damage.

It must be a nightmare trying to drive around Washington City at the best of times Bellasnanna . I will watch some if the inauguration later and see how it all pans out.

DDand littlest GD gave us a knock as they passed by yesterday. Lovely to see them . GD always gets shy standing in the drive and not able to come in. It must hard for them to understand all this. They were on their way to the school to pick up more work. She can’t get enough of it. ??. And she’s only in reception. ?. I walked passed the school the other day and saw all the key workers children playing n the playground. Running, squealing, having a lovely time with their friends. That’s what the majority of the youngsters are missing. So sad! ?

Day two of our healthier eating regime. Last of the Christmas cake was eaten yesterday and DH not happy. He bought chocolate when he went for milk. I think he’s a lost cause !

Enjoy your curry Mick, I’ll be thinking of you. ?

Wishing you all a brighter day. ??

Good morning all from a wet, windy S Hants. Curry sounds good Mick, it’s that sort of day.
I’m full of joy today, after some weeks of breast pain I saw my GP last week and was referred to the fast track breast clinic yesterday.. My health anxiety/catastrophising has been crippling me the whole week, it’s something I try to fight, but am reduced to a still, silent person. However, a clean bill of health, nerve pain apparently, the swelling under my arm is a fatty deposit! The NHS as always magnificent, particularly now, my DH too. So, it is with renewed vigour I start the day
I’m very aware many of you are still fighting your battles with far more stoicism and good grace, my thoughts are with you all. ?

What a beautiful place for amdram Ashcombe.

I hope you manage to get you prescription sorted out Beechnut.

Good morning from Malta where it is sunny but cold.

DD1 had quite a time driving home from work yesterday. Her usual 15 minute commute took two and a half hours around the back streets of Washington DC with three police road blocks and a National Guard one. After a 12 hour shift at hospital she wasn’t happy, nor was her very hungry pup who was waiting for her at home.

She says it will be even worse today. She’s on nights so drives home early morning.

I shall try to watch some of the inauguration on tv, otherwise another day of doing very little.

Stay safe everyone.?☀️

Good morning from very wet north Surrey.
First day back at work went ok, we are taking some patients from hospital with Covid as a step down to free up the acute beds, gives us some much needed funding. Good to be back but natural anxiety about what I may bring home. We have also been offered lateral flow tests so will collect them later today.
PT at 8 so need to get up and get going.
Wishing all a good day today. Stay dry and safe

Good Morning everyone from Severnside where it is wet. We’ll probably get your pouring rain later Cherry.

I will try and work my way through some admin jobs today. One of them is my prescription order. I’ve messed that up and will probably need to get in touch or visit the surgery.

Stay safe and enjoy your meals all ?