Good Morning Tuesday

Good morning all from, as dragonfly says, a dull North Leicestershire.

DH is going to the gym this morning so I have an empty!! Sadly, I need to use it to do some ironing.

We bought bright pink towels yesterday and they look great. The downstairs loo is a moody greyish/purple. We now need a small cupboard and some sort of art. It seemed like a good idea to redecorate but it always opens a can of worms!

Burgerologist burgers for dinner so no cooking. Result!

Good morning Mick, morning all from South Lanarkshire where the sun is just managing to break through the clouds.

Horses are such beautiful creatures, smashing photos Ashcombe and GG. Love the sunspex on your gorgeous dog Elliane.

I’ve decided to have my eyebrows to tinted as they are so grey now they’ve all but disappeared and I look a bit washed out so today I have to pop into the salon for a patch test. The shops are now open so I’ll have a little mooch while I’m there. We only have small independent shops, no chains other than Boots the Chemist, I’m hoping they’ve all survived.

I forgot to go back yesterday to read the whole thread so I’ll do that now. Wishing everyone a peaceful day.

Good morning from a dull and cloudy Black country.

We do need the rain that is forecast, but we are going out today! First to Birmingham for MrJ to have his 2nd jab, then onto Solihull to look at sofa's. What an exciting life!

The Kitchen roller blinds, and Dining room vertical blinds were fitted yesterday. Just the Living room to finish now.

Met Brother and SIL in Mums garden yesterday, and then we went for a walk. It was chilly to start with, but by the end was very warm.

Enjoy your time with your family brook

Wishing you all a great day.

Good morning everyone from south Manchester where we have white cloud cover keeping us warm! The forecast is for showers by midday. I’ve been invited to join some of my book clubbers for lunch. I’d like to join in as I’ve not seen them for 18 months and I don’t do Zoom (can’t be bothered with it) but if the weather turns chilly I won’t want to sit out ... I’m not a hardy soul, I like the heat (can’t wait to get back to Malaga ha!).

Ashcombe those horses look magnificent with their glossy coats. Thank you for letting us know about your husband. It’s good he has such hobbies that he can enjoy. Bet you both can’t wait until travel is allowed!

Talking of travel bet you really enjoyed visiting your cottage in Suffolk Gingster and get you brook all that way down in Cambridgeshire! Life is opening up and it’s great isn’t it? We will look back on those strange ‘days of Covid’ last year with horror as we remember them. Such a strange almost dystopian time.

Hope Tuesday is good to us all and that your hands feel better today Marydoll with the gel. If I recall, on very bad days you wear splints, bless. Hopefully you’ve managed to keep your coffee pot upright this morning amselerin! x

Good morning from a cloudy Nottinghamshire.
What lovely photos today. grannygravy, was he really your horse? He is beautiful! Did you ride him?
brook, what an exciting trip, and I think your plan is perfect, staying nearby so you can still have a little time on your own while still spending time with your family. Cambridge is such a lovely place to wander round.
Marydoll, £3! What a bargain!
Second jab today, at last. ??for no side effects this time.
Wishing you all a peaceful day.

Good Morning all from the Scottish Borders where it is cold and damp.
I was warned by the nurse I would likely feel fluey after the 2nd jag but I feel OK. Just poorly enough to call off a zoom committee meeting last night
The work on the building next door continues to make sitting in the garden noisy and too public. I hope it is finished soon. It has been going on since last year. When I first asked it was going to be finished in April. Now they say July. The roof slates have come down and I believe solar panels are going on. I suppose at least it makes me appreciate my peace and privacy in normal times.

I must also try to make a hair appointment soon.
Yoga to begin with today and I have arranged for someone to come and collect some willow cuttings. I hope she turns up.

I love the black stallions too Ashcombe One of the good things about the lockdown is that people line the streets for funerals.

I hope you all have a nice day.

Good morning from a damp NE, the rain started around six last night.
DH has to go for a covid test this morning at 9.30, BIL is coming to take him to a drive through. He has to have the test before he can attend the endoscopy unit on Friday.
My friend brought me some shopping last night, first time I have seen her for 18 months.
Enjoy your day.

Good morning. Lots of cloud here in N. Bucks this morning. Maybe a little rain later.
I have a zoom meeting to attend which I am pretty sure will not be particularly inspiring.
This afternoon I’m off to a garden WI committee meeting.
Hope you all find a ? today.

Good morning from Staffordshire.A stressful journey over here today.A fire in a recycling centre had closed off one lane of the motorway so we were stuck in traffic with the car filling with toxic smoke?I was worried we were going to be late but arrived just in time for DD and DSIL to leave for work.

Ashcombe, DH has always wanted a model railway.He bought a starter set when DGS was born and has been gradually adding to it.Next week when we go to Llandudno we will go via Betws y coed so he can call in the model railway shop there.

Glad your journey was straightforward brook.DH and I would love to travel that route!

Cherry, I hope you have had a peaceful night and are feeling rested??

I am feeling tired already and no lie in tomorrow as we have swapped days with Henry’s other grandparents as we have our second vaccine on Thursday.

Have a good day all??

Good morning Auntyflo and all x

Good morning from North Yorkshire. It’s cloudy at the moment and much needed rain is forecast for later.
I zoomed into a very interesting talk last night about the Commonwealth War Graves.
Book Club this evening. Hopefully the last one on Zoom.
Have a good day everyone. Stay safe.

Good morning from Cheshire. No sun today. DH playing golf later so will be on my own.
Beautiful animals , Elliane and Grannygravy.
What a lovely send off for the magician Ashcombe You don't see many horses nowadays.
Have a good day everyone. Good wishes to all who have worries.

Morning Mick, morning All from a cloudy corner of Somerset.

After a very productive day yesterday we’re off over the bridge once tomorrow’s grocery order is finished to tend Mr C’s parents grave and make a care visit to our friend, she’s very low and quite unwell at the moment.

Goddaughter was very distressed yesterday, she has health anxiety and is struggling to believe her surgery wound will heal without an infection. It seems my advice helped as after explaining to her surgery a nurse will check it for her this morning. I do feel for her, she is the carer for her Mum who experienced a brain bleed two years ago and is deteriorating cognitively, with no other family she turns to us for support.

Best get a wriggle on, time seems to hurtle by.

Take care everyone, hope Tuesday is kind to us all.

Good morning Michael and all GNs from an overcast, chilly South Yorkshire. I have the oven to clean after DH cooked a joint of roast pork on Sunday - good crackling requires sacrifices! Thank goodness for dishwashers. Later we are going to a local plant nursery which has just reopened after refurbishments. We got some good plants there last year, the prices were reasonable and it’s just up the road. No cafe or gifts and garden sundries; just plants. Whatever you’re doing today, have a good one and stay safe.

Good morning, Mick and All from a rather damp looking Carlisle.
How interesting to read you have done cycle racing, Mick. I love to watch the big three, the Giro, Vuelta and the Tour. My late DH was a very keen cyclist, not a racer, more of a long distance tourer. I've been a keen cyclist too but have now given up. When we moved to the top of a steep hill 20 years ago, we got far less keen!
A bit of a black Monday yesterday...everything I did seemed to go wrong, starting with the registering with a new doctor which is turning into a marathon exercise . The surgery contacted me to say they couldn't find the forms I'd handed in on Monday last week and would I come in and do them again. Heart sank...7 pages of them. I picked up the envelope in which I'd had the utility companies letters etc and there were the forms. The receptionist had handed them back to me in the envelope with the other papers. I got my things together and rushed across the city only to find on arrival that the one thing I'd left behind was the envelope! How could I be such an idiot? The result is, I'm about to go out again and pray it's third time lucky.
Ashcombe lovely horses, what a fine sight.
Have the best day possible everyone.

Morning all from SW Herts, we have broken cloud with the odd patch of blue sky. Lovely photos this morning.

Still no news on the forthcoming birth of grandchild, DiL's sweep yesterday doesn't seem to have had any dramatic action. Now 9 days overdue, induction not possible because of the trauma last time, so C-section on Friday if nothing happened by then. Can't help feeling a bit anxious...

Morning everyone from chilly S Lanarkshire, just started to read posts and realised time is shooting by so will post and read later. Did get as far as Marydoll. What a touching story about your neighbour’s builder, you’re right, so sad but how lucky they were.

Brook I read yesterday and really envied your long train journey, my favourite way to travel. I just loved when my Navy daughter lived in Plymouth, the journey took all day, I loved it, partly I think because it was the longest period in my life when no one could ask me to do anything!
Enjoy this happy time with your family.

Felt a bit off for the last couple of days after my second jab, but so glad to have had it. Onward and upward, have a good day all.

Good morning from sunny Colchester. A dry and slightly warmer day in the offing. DH has gone fishing and I plan a pootle around town to see what's what.
Sending love and sunshine to all x

Cloudy this morning as I anticipate what for me is a busy day. Wonderful cleaner here this morning, professional oven cleaner this afternoon (thank you, GN, for persuading me that this isn’t a wicked extravagance) and then later in the day the electrician to link our new outdoor awnings to the power supply. The back of the house faces south west and shading makes life much more pleasant, and replacing the hand cranked ones will be one job made easier. Such excitement! DH thinks I am trying to spend all our money at once.

Sorry Marydoll is suffering so, hope Cherry can find a solution to her neighbour problem, and that we all have the best day we can.

You made me smile in recognition Granny Somerset!

We have just booked our gas CH replacement boiler for June (it is over 25 years old we think and we inherited it when we moved here). Only yesterday we paid our half of the builder's bill for the asbestos removal and new garage roof. Poor DH is suffering withdrawal pains, as in withdrawing money from savings! I tell him we need to help the economy but he remains unconvinced!

Good morning everyone from a cloudy Northampton, hoping it stays dry as I have some washing in. I know we need rain but tonight would do fine, thank you.

Busy morning yesterday; I decided to clean the indoors windows, then damp-dusted downstairs. Didn't quite manage the hoovering but will do later on. Pottered in the garden in the afternoon; watered everything then tidied up the straggly hydrangea and cut back the forsythia as it has just about finished flowering. Then read a couple of magazines while sheltering from the wind in the summerhouse. Am going to order some paint for the summerhouse and hope to get it done this summer.

Not much planned for today, finish off yesterday's jobs, and perhaps walk to the postbox with my postal voting papers.

Enjoyed very much looking at the lovely photos today. Thank you to all.

Yes, Gagagran, agreeing on what constitutes a rainy day (and therefore a legitimate use of savings) is not easy. A new boiler is definitely OK though new awnings possibly not.

Harrigran cornergran both. Worrying times.

Good morning all from a cool grey Lancashire, where it is currently raining! Yes, actual rain falling from the sky! Perhaps having the gutters cleaned yesterday works as a rain charm . Mr. B has gone out to do the supermarket shop, I have been sorting laundry and feeding the washing machine. Yesterday passed in a bit of a fuzzy haze and I slept quite a lot, but I haven’t had any other vaccine side effects this time. I’m feeling much brighter today. No special plans for today, Mr. B has just returned from the shop while I was typing this, so I shall go and help him put things away.

I hope today is kind to all of us, especially those in need of a little extra comfort.

Good Morning from la France profonde, where the sun is shining yet again, but that horrid Northeasterly is less pernicious.

I need to man-up and get the strimmer out today, and probably the mower, too. I mowed it all last week, but despite the recent lack of rain, it's all coming up again far too quickly. Every week we are promised rain the following week, but it never arrives. Farmers are getting nervous, as they know this doesn't end well.

As DW Ashcombe pointed out, I have hobbies. Having no children (late first wife Deb made it clear before we married that she didn't want children, and we never had a cross word about it) I can spend what I like on whatever I want. Ashcombe and I have separate finances, so her children can inherit everything they should, but she has no expensive hobbies, which explains why she's richer than I am! I am reminded of a tee-shirt that said "My husband collects trains - pray for me!" Susan56 you have been warned!

Oddly, on another forum about life in France, there is a lady styled "Sue in 56" which tells us that she lives in Département 56, called Morbihan, in southern Brittany. The Départements (think counties) each have a number, mine is 72, and that number is used for a zillion things including postcodes and on car registration plates, although the latter is no longer mandatory.

Those horses on the funeral carriage are indeed gorgeous chaps. I looked after Deb's horses for 9 years after she was disabled in a car crash, but both ours were girls. When one died and I got a donkey, I quickly discovered he was twice as bright!

Finally, many on here cook with eggs, of course. I bought a box in the supermarket a couple of weeks ago, and when I did a fry-up last week, was astounded to find that both the eggs I cooked had double-yolks. Today I had a fried breakfast - and two more double yolks! Amazing! Any minute now the Internet will be full of solemn warnings that Covid, 5G and the cold NE wind straight off the Steppes has caused genetic mutation so all hens now lay double-yolks. You heard it here first!