Good Morning Saturday (May Day)

Good morning on May day.
Do you have any friends named after a month? I know a person called May, June and Julie. I think April is a pretty name too.
I like the bluebell photos here.
Have a nice day.

More bluebells

Thank you for all your good wishes, you lovely people! What a joyous thread, of which I feel honoured to be a participant. ?

grandMattie I am in Oxfordshire. If you Google, Virtual May Morning, Magdalen College, you can enjoy this morning's pre recorded celebration of May.

Thanks grandmajet. I’ll give it a watch ?

Good morning from Morecambe Bay where it’s frosty again. The new leaves on the trees won’t like it a all. I’ve never known an April with so many heavy frosty nights.
Lots of good news skimming through the posts, I’ll read properly later. New babies and dogs are always welcome.
Enjoy your break Ash.
It’s Saturday again, how did that happen? My friend will be ringing any minute. We chat away for about an hour about nothing much at all!
Our AZ’s went well yesterday. The organisation was good but they were much less fussy about the social distancing with no one way system. Perhaps they thought that as everyone had had at least one jab it wasn’t necessary. Hopefully I won’t feel as tired as I did last time.
Take care stay safe everyone ???

Good Morning all from the Scottish Borders where it is still far too cold for a May Day morning but perhaps it often is.
The sun is shining and my DD & co are coming for lunch. It will be her first visit home since her dad died last year.
I'd better get cooking.

Lovely baby news ginny and B9Ex
I cuddled a lamb this week but a baby human is very special.
Good news too about Iris, grandMattie
I hope your worries melt away greyduster
I am glad you had a restful day Marydoll even if it's only one....

Your bluebell pictures are truly gorgeous. Susan and Dwm
Only the Spanish ones here but I am fond of them.
They are more upright and come in pink and white too.

My days of washing my face in the May Day dew or dancing around the Maypole are long gone but I wonder if our DGC do that?

March winds and April showers make way for May Flowers.

Good morning from Cheshire - haven't read the posts yet. Blooming cold for May !
Hope this new month is better for everyone,

Good morning Auntyflo and all x

Good morning Mick and all

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Right blue sky, and it looks like we had some of Gingsters rain overnight.

Enjoy your new GC ginny and B9
Good news about Iris’s recovery grandmattie
I hope all of you have an enjoyable Mayday, where have the first months of the heat gone?

Local shop for me this morning, then curl up with my book

Keep safe and well folks ?‍♀️?

A late good morning from sunny Colchester.

Feeling a bit rough this morning. DH thought he'd pulled a muscle yesterday but the pain got worse and we ended up dialling 111 at midnight. They sent out an ambulance! They arrived within 20 minutes and checked him out coming to the conclusion that it was an infection and that he should've taken the painkillers that I offered when he first winced in pain. Two lovely people sat in our lounge for over an hour....so much paperwork. God bless our NHS.

DH went to bed and slept soundly, I was a wreck and feel like I've had a night on the tiles. I've fed him painkillers with his breakfast. I might have some too!!

Needless to say we'll be having a quiet day with me making a trip to buy more Ibuprofen and waiting on his nibs.

Much love to all x

Good Morning all, wall to wall sun here but chilly , bit of a frost last night but hopefully no damage to the garden .
Haircut yesterday evening , it was supposed to be the afternoon but the poor lassie had double booked ! Didn’t recognise myself in the mirror this morning ! ! !

Morning all. Just see blue sky peeping through clouds here in West Yorks.Trying to motivate myself into washing 2prs curtains,it's the thought of the ironing I hate.
Greyduster hope the worry can be solved in daylight hrs.I have lost count of sleepless nights spent worrying over "what ifs".
Iris certainly is doing so well and will love the benefit of hydrotherapy.
Welcome to the world baby Charlie, always a joy when additions to family arrive safe and sound.My friend became a GGm for 2nd time yest, different to last yr when same GD gave birth during Apr lockdown.
Bought new garden pots yest (under pressure from DH) but now I'm not sure.anyway as DH has already skillfully drilled drainage holes into stone they are here to stay.
Hopefully mixed weather forecast will prevent holiday crowding, enjoy whatever you have planned and thoughts of those with illness and worry.Take care.

Good morning Mick and all from high cloud in S Hants, I must have gone back to sleep, unlike me, so very late up. gingster we watched the lasted episode on the ITV hub, in between watching my football team draw their game with 10 men. I had my toenails painted yesterday, timing was coincident with Tesco delivering so No J put shopping away, a spot of rearranging was required. No big plans today, we have rain later and I must pot on some baby veg. Have a lovely day all with new babies, dogs, family visits and walks.
Thoughts with those struggling, hoping you have a little brightness today. X

A bright good morning from DD's here in sunny ? East Northants. No-one one else up and about yet, so will wait until I hear signs of movement.

The plan today is for DD and me (I?) to go to the nearby retail park. First time back at the shops for me and I am quite excited! I have something to return to M&S, and hope I can find something to replace it. Plus a look round at all the other shops too, and coffee and a snack outside.

Hoping that we have a good May Day weekend, with a bit of warmer weather.

Good morning from a sunny NE.
DH was delivered to the endoscopy unit and I was able to spend the three hours getting the house work done.
We had specifically told them at pre-assessment that he would need help dressing and undressing but no help was given. Thankfully I put him in just track suit trousers and a polo shirt.
The examination showed that there was no sinister reason for his symptoms in the bowel so we can concentrate on the parts of the body that are a problem.
I went to bed at 10.30 and slept until 4am, awake for an hour and then slept until 8am. I feel as if I have been on holiday
Will get to see my sister today as she is bringing me some bread and lettuce.
Enjoy your May Bank Holiday weekend.

Just a brief hello before rushing off to see Olive and her big brother, plus of course their Mum and Dad. Have a great few days away 'Ashcombe', hope Charlie is home very soon *ginny', and hoping everyone hears a little bit of good news today.

It's a cold start here hopefully will warn up later .
I missed yesterday was busy with Gs and time disappeared .Congratulations ginnya new baby to cuddle .
Enjoy your days away Ash . What lovely news from your niece Dwm .
Good to hear you have no new worries Harrigran I think you have enough . Take care everyone.?

Good morning from a sunny Sarthe, and Happy May Day! I am quite jealous of DW Ashcombe off to her holiday retreat for a few days. While not so very far from her rather nice flat, it is a world away in ambience. She notes the derisory Wifi, which inter alia means we cannot enjoy our daily Zoom. It probably means I will neither see nor speak to a soul until Tuesday!

Yesterday my cleaner was here - and cut my hair! It's the second time she has done so, and the result is more than passable. The previous afternoon, she and her lover had been here working on the flowerbed that used to be my pond. Her chap had brought two bucketloads of earth last year - a bucketload in this case being the front-bucket on his Manitou, a poor-man's JCB! We have now done an initial sowing of wild-flower seeds, and await results.

I am sorry that Greyduster had been awake in the night turning over a problem. They always magnify big-time in the small hours. As it happens, my cleaner had complained of the same sad problem yesterday morning, she had got up at 03.30 and done some ironing! She is Scots, and a little unusual, in that, while most cleaners live in modest circs, she owns her own house and 17 acres around it! She has been 'seeing' her married lover for 8 years, but even though he has now lived with her for almost a year, she isn't very happy. Divorce, and breaking up the business with his wife for their 400-acre farm is proving difficult. Wifey is justifiably vexatious - as we all might be - not to mention avaricious.

I shall be watching the Grand Prix this weekend. Our man Sir Lewis (I met him once, now nearly 20 years ago!) is on good form yet again. Fingers crossed.

May (sorry) your Bank Holiday Weekend yield all you hope for.

Good morning Mick and all from a sunny Suet on Sea on the northwest Lancashire coast.
The dishwasher is not draining the water and I can’t pull it out to follow the YouTube video, have cleaned the filter but no joy. Will have to wash the dishes by HAND until son arrives, and the Hoover is playing up. Gadgets all join up against us don’t they? But it would be sinful not to take some sun today, so will try not to think about them.
Took a pile of stuff to the charity shop yesterday, but found two pretty china pudding dishes. I’m not supposed to come away with any more clutter, but it makes life feel more like normal.
Bought two healthy chocolate bars in the health shop as well as a bottle of Honegar, which I have been taking for yonks. I can’t say I’m in better health because of it...anyway the choc bars had that healthy taste. Let’s face it, we need the devil in the chocolate, so followed it with a Cadbury’s creme egg. That was my breakfast...
Lots of people sitting out in the sun in our now trendy village, but not me, no fear, a very chill wind indeed.
Bought my £1 box of hair dye and I have blonde sprays so will take a strand at the front and spray it, hey ho, highlights! And cheap. Will return to the hairdresser s o m e d a y.
Started reading Rose Macaulay’s collected letters in the car after staggering out of the supermarket. I like her novels and these look interesting. The car book must be one I can pick up, read a few pages and put down, not fiction with a plot to follow.
Thoughts to harrigran cherry marydoll and a big welcome to the new arrivals.

Good morning all from sunny Lancashire. Lots of fluffy white clouds scudding about though. Lovely to hear of new babies, congratulations ginny. Lots of beautiful bluebells too.

The first thing I noticed when I opened the French windows this morning was the noise. Not loud, just the sound of a few cars on the main road, a family on a bike ride, people in the car park putting walking gear on and children chattering. It’s wonderful after the silent months that seemed to go on for ever. January definitely had more than the usual number of days this year.

I’m also very happy to hear my little birds singing next to the window. There is a particular place on the guttering where they like to sit. They disappeared for a few days after we had the gutters cleaned and I was worried they wouldn’t come back. Can’t have blocked gutters though!

Happy May Day one and all

Good Morning to you all from a bright, dry Cambs.,

Ashcombe, enjoy your weekend at your holiday home.

We are off to ours on the NW Norfolk coast later today, maybe until Monday when rain is forecast. Our gardens desperately need rain, so I'll try not to moan.!
We plan to call at our DS's to visit him & his family, it's our middle "special" DGD's 12th birthday today.
We, too, are out of wi-fi contact at our little "home-from-home.

Warm wishes to you all, especially those with extra worries & woes.

Good morning all GNs from Welyn, Herts. It's a lovely bright, sunny morning here. Today the plan is to clean our windows downstairs on the outside, haven't seen a window cleaner around for well before Covid started so it's down to DH and myself, but shouldn't take too long with him washing and me behind drying.
Tomorrow we hope to have a garden visit with DS2 and his lovely partner, soon to become first time parents, all getting very excited.
We all need rain for the gardens etc but it's a shame it's coming on bank holiday Monday, I mean for those who go out to work and look forward to the break.
Hope you all have a happy, restful weekend.

Good morning from South Yorkshire.

It was brighter earlier, but the sky is clouding up now and I think we are forecast showers for later. It rained heavily last evening until about midnight when it stopped and dropped very chilly. I think it might even have turned frosty, which had been forecast. Very confusing for the plants, and I'm still covering over vulnerable ones at night.

Nothing exciting to report, just the same old again, so won't repeat myself.

Hope today brings blessings to you all, and anyone seeing family/friends, enjoy your time.

Good Morning all from grey Harrogate - probably wet later on - WOW! all these new babies, lovely for you, Ginny, and B9exchange
Gingster you can save me some chocolate cake! Have a peaceful break Ash
The Hydrotherapy will work wonders for Iris GrandMattie
Very good having a Doctor in the family DWM
Haven't a clue what I am doing for the rest of the day, probably nothing, but it will keep me busy whatever!
Have a great day all, hope your troubles disappear.