Good Morning Saturday (May Day)

Good Morning All x. White Rabbits.
A lot of cloud about with the sun reluctantly trying to shine but it's slow moving cloud so all in all not a very promising day for washing or going very far.
The furthest I'll be going is to the corner shop for milk and a top-up of cat food for the long weekend until I go to Asda again next week.

Half a leg of lamb out of the freezer for tomorrow and I fancy making some scones as yesterday when I was having a cuppa I could have just eaten a fresh scone with it. Next week I'll get some clotted cream and have my own Devon/ Cornish tea

Had a nice chat yesterday afternoon with neighbours---in the garden of course. It passed a couple of hours until tea-time.
Not sure what I'll be up to but a few more papers to shred so will learn to keep it down with no more mounds of it to do at once, burning the machine out.

So many comings and goings here with two new lives which is always lovely to hear about and of course Maw's new pal who I hope is settling into her new life.
Enjoy your change of scenery Ashcombe , pity it wasn't the two of you but that day will come. x

Everyone enjoy your weekend and take care whatever you do. To those who find things hard going, I wish you well xx

It's bright sunshine at the moment in south Devon but showers are forecast.
I went out early delivering local magazines like I always do on the first of the month, aand it was quite chilly then.
Happy May Day. and White Rabbits.

Good Morning, Mick and everyone from a sunny Carlisle. We had frost last night and here was me thinking of getting some spring bedding plants...
All my tech is now communing with the new printer after I followed some long winded advice on the printer website. What a palaver it’s been. No wonder I dread having to update my techie things.
My last GP recommended spending 10 days on a lactose and gluten free diet to see if I felt better on it. Although I am feeling better anyway I decided to try it out starting yesterday. Result- an upset digestive system which gave me a poor night’s sleep!
I suspect the gluten-free bread which has a very long list of strange ingredients. I have fallen at the first hurdle and am returning to “proper” bread. I don’t think I have a gluten intolerance and certainly not the allergy. I have an acquaintance with coeliac disease, it’s an unenviable thing to suffer.
I will postpone the planned garden centre visit and do some gentle filing and shredding and possibly attempt the putting together of another flat pack.
Happy holidays, Ashcombe and to everyone finally getting out and about. And the best day possible to everyone with problems.

Good Morning from a cloudy and intermittenly sunny Black Country.

Managed to dodge the showers yesterday, with a sunny walk along the Nature reserve that backs onto Mums garden. A mooch around the Hospice charity shop where 3 items were purchased. A pair of black Jeggings £1.99 were a bargain!

No real plans today, just pottering and housework.

Wishing Ashcombe a lovely few days away, hopefully next time olddudders can join you! I am not envious at all! We are going away on 17th May to our caravan in Somerest, to see how it is doing after winter storage.

Hard to believe we had such good weather this time last year, when we were all confined to barracks!

Wishing you all a good weekend

Just popped back to let you all know it’s Naked Gardening Day today ???

Morning all, tomorrow is my husband’s and granddaughter’s birthdays, a few years apart!! We are booked in localpub for first meal ‘out’ , since start of the pandemic., as it’s literally outside please halt all prayers for rain or Rain Dances for a few hours in Mid Herts.???

Jaxjacky

Just popped back to let you all know it’s Naked Gardening Day today ???

Oh yes I know, our gardener is not due today thank goodness ???

Good morning from West Sussex where skies are blue. Yesterday DD3 and youngest GD (2) met us in our local park where we had coffee and cake outdoors in the sun. Then to the play park where GD had great fun on the slide until a big black cloud came over and raindrops started splashing on the play equipment. It got heavier and we sheltered under a tree. It turned to hailstones and GD ran out and stood laughing in the now white grass ?

Marydoll your Linwood clue has given me an ‘ear worm’ of Letter from America (Linwood no more)! What a shame about TKMax. I can picture your DH’s face because my DH would have been the same. Hope you vaccine reaction will be mild this time.

GrannySomerset I am jealous of your goldfinches and long-tailed tits but it’s lovely to read about them.

Lovely to hear of the new arrivals. Hope to hear from other expectant GMs soon.

Hollysteers I love the idea of breakfast being 2 healthy chocolate bars followed by a cream egg ?

DH is at the allotment so I’d better get down there with his coffee.

Thoughts of those with worries

Congratulations to Ginny on the birth of Charlie yesterday. What lovely news! Only just seen. Hope they are back home soon.

B9Exchange DD2 had a large haematoma on her head when she was born which looked alarming but had gone a few days later. I gave birth to her with great difficulty as she was a back to back delivery but escaped intervention somehow (DD1 was forceps for the same reason) DS in the middle was an easy birth. My new GS’s middle name is Oliver after his paternal great grandmother whose name is Olive and who is 96. Not keen on his first name though - he is Joseph to be known as Joey but I’ll get used to it.

Have a good day everyone.

Litterpicker, Linwood isn't really very near where I live, but it is ten minutes from my GP, if you know all the back roads! I go have a Glasgow postcode. You could get a map like we see on Line of Duty and use pins to mark locations, then triangulate them all! .

The Linwood no more reference refers to the former Pressed Steel/ Roots/ Talbot/ Chrysler car plant which was based there. When it shut down, many including my FIL never worked again.

Good afternoon Mick and everyone. Sunny and a breeze in Cornwall. Thermometer registered 4° in my polytunnel this morning. That's low . -1° forecast for tomorrow morning. Thank goodness for the fleece that's staying around my hydrangea. Most of my seeds are in the cottage as temp is more constant in there. Cauliflowers, broccoli and toms are through.

Grey MrM heard a cuckoo this morning. Must get my hearing aids in. Poor buzzards keep getting chased and bullied by the rooks above us. All that sky and trees and they can't share peacefully.

Car till being sorted out. I feel like I'm on a desert island with not being able to get out. Nearest village would probably take nearly 45 mins (walking briskly )

No news from son about his interview and GD visit to the hospital yesterday about her heart problem found on the ECG. Apparently it's not a murmur but something to do with the lining and position of her heart. Sent a text early this morning.

Enjoy your holiday break Ashcombe.

Good news about your 2nd dose Urmston and for Himself too.

I'm off to pick my first strawberry from the polytunnel.

Enjoy your plans for today everyone.?

Marydoll I think I remember passing the car plant on a rare trip with my father to Scottish Cables in Renfrew where he worked from when he left school at 14 until he was made redundant or agreed some sort of early retirement deal at age 58 (apart from the war years when he was RAF ground crew). He was ready to go by then. I was married to DH and living in N. Ireland when all the big closures happened in Scotland and northern England so it all felt a bit remote.

That’s probably enough/too much of a history lesson/memory trip from me .

muse hope you get your car back soon and hear from your son. Polytunnel sounds great - first strawberry ?

Ooh Hollysteers the same thing happened to us and our dishwasher. Wouldn’t drain. Tried the filter, kinked hose etc, but read in instructions online that you need to press the reset buttons. On ours it is marked which two buttons you have to hold down together (for quite a while) and magically it worked! Water drained out, and I put a descaling rinse on a hot wash (without any dishes) to clean it before using again. We’d inherited the machine with the house 7 years ago and it’s old so we’d assumed it had died, but no, it’s fine now! If yours has the same kind of buttons it might work. Good luck!