Good Morning Sunday

Good morning from as kitty say a bright Leicestershire.

Very excited at Leicester winning the cup yesterday!
Dexter was so pleased to see his Mum and Dad as we were. It was a lovely day and we are going down to stay the week after next!

Things are definitely looking up, we have all been vaccinated but also do rapid flow tests.

Beautiful pictures.
Have a good day everyone.

Good morning, Michael and all GNs. The sun is shining in South Yorkshire but it looks as if we have had a good deal of rain during the night. DD and her menfolk are coming over for a roast dinner later so we are looking forward to that. GS is playing football just down the road from us this morning, but it’s at a football centre and they are only allowed one parent in attendance, so we won’t be going to watch. We’ll hear all about it later, no doubt. Have a peaceful Sunday, folks.

Good morning all from a cloudy Glasgow, where its 8°C.
Hoping that Brook is enjoying some west coast weather! I tried to work out where you were from your photo, to no avail. When we say West Coast, we mean the seaside, the view looked more like the Trossachs! ?

Yesterday was another full on day, which has left me totally wiped out. Je ne regrette rien!!!!
After DD left, somehow managing to forget half her stuff, (her usual habit) despite me reminding her to check, she somehow was able to purloin one of my spare room, which must not be slept upon, fancy pillow cases when packing her bags. ? ?‍♀️ DS2 and his fiancée arrived, bearing more gifts.

What I found endearing was that my usually scruffy, bearded, Braveheart lookalike son, had made such an effort, a haircut and had put on his best going out clothes to visit his old mum! ?
Bearing doughnut type buns, (never tasted them before,) but rather delicious) from our local M&S food Hall, which sadly closed down yesterday after ninety years in the town, just completed the visit.

Tradional Scottish Steak pie filling for dinner is already prepared, I just need to put the pastry on top and a choice of desserts. Birthday cake, taste au citron, or strawberries and ice cream for dessert. We seem to have a cornucopia of food here. I hate seeing food go to waste, so I will unfortunately be forced to be greedy! ? I would willingly miss out the pie, ( DH's favourite) and just have the puds!! ?

I'm still in bed, but can't read the previous posts, are our Wifi is giving us endless grief. DH refused ? to accept my advice until DS2, the IT guru offered the same advice yesterday. I will need to go on my PC to read and I cannot make the effort to get up!!

Therefore, without being able to read posts, I'm wishing the birthday people a great day, hoping the mountain climbing is is not too arduous, poorly family members are improving and extending a warm welcome to the lurkers and new posters. ?

I intend to have a restful day. If you believe that, you are easily fooled! ?
Have a good day, whatever your plans.

Good morning Mick and all. A wet start again here on the S Welsh coast. Yesterday turned out to be a sunny day though and we had a lovely walk with the 11 month old pup, he then slept all afternoon.
Nothing planned for today except read the papers. Roast lamb dinner with all the trimmings later.
Have a good day everyone.

Morning all, no time to read the thread but I’ve promised Granmattie that I’d post a photo of ‘Iris’s’ calf, now named Dobby! Wishing you all a happy Sunday.

Morning Mick and all

I seem to have difficulty posting on GN at the moment, I will try again...

It’s trying to brighten up here, no plans other than roast chicken later DD and GC are joining us and the 6yr old has requested pigs in blankets so that’s what we are having!

Keep safe and well folks ?‍♀️?

Good morning Auntyflo and all x

Good morning from North Yorkshire. It’s a dull start and Alexa tells me to expect thunderstorms later.
Had an enjoyable hour at the garden centre yesterday.
Another quiet day here. I’ll sort out the pots now the tulips have finished and do a bit of weeding. Then my book and some knitting.
Hope everyone has a good day. Stay safe.

Especially for you marydoll we’re the blue dot on the map!

From the Business section in the Sunday Telegraph today:

“WARBURTONS, Britain’s biggest baker, is spending more than £50m on new plants and depots as shoppers swap sliced bread for crumpets and bagels.”

Seems your crumpets are in safe hands EV!

Morning everyone from a cloudy but bright SW Herts, hope those having or planning birthdays enjoy them, and those who have had them are recovering!

Glad you got your cuddle Scentia, you must be longing for the next one.

I am quite sure you can tell the difference between plastic and a piece of cherry stone Ash, suspect a bit of back covering going on, unless of course it was a plastic coated piece of cherry stone!?

We finally managed to get the pelmet rail back up and secured, well I say 'we' but DH climbed onto the window sill and announced it was hurting his hip, so I had to wrestle with it alone. Urms, have you been giving him secret lessons #lazyclub?

Tomorrow the freezer repair man should be coming, yay, I can stock up at last. Look forward to hearing what you are all going to do with your freedom tomorrow, I will have to wait in.... Grrrrr ?

Good morning from the Sefton coast where it is sunny but raining.
Thanks for the lovely photos brook2704 and Ellianne. Ashcombe’s £10 from Lidl reminds me of discovering a piece of pallet in a Tesco’s tin of mixed beans some years ago.
A family walk is planned at midday so I’m hoping the sun triumphs.
May you find a flamingo and reason to smile to brighten your Sunday.

Good morning all from Polmont. Clouds and blue skies this morning so it could go either way. Yesterday ended up a beautiful afternoon and evening for the family bbq. Despite sitting under a gazebo, my neck is sunburnt. We had a lovely time. I picked up dd and brought him over with bags of food and other goodies for my aunt and uncle. Dd and dgs were there with my mum and brother. My son in law came from work and my son's fairly new partner arrived much later as she had been out in Edinburgh. I decided to have some wine so I'll get a lift today to pick up my car. We all had a great time in their garden and it was so nice to socialise again.
I'm quite tired this morning as I went to bed late and didn't sleep well so I'll potter about. I hope you all have a good day

Good morning Mick and all his followers. That’s a bit of a worry to hear there is evidence of the Indian variant near you Mick - do take care.
The sun is out in Suffolk after yesterday’s rain but I have housework to do. We have a friend coming to stay from Tuesday so need to make a bed, clean the house and bake.
Good day for our old home town yesterday! First the rugby team won and then the Foxes won the FA cup. Such a happy and emotional atmosphere afterwards - I admit I needed tissues. A tribute to the last owner who was killed so tragically.

Lovely photos from the holiday makers. Enjoy your time away! I keep making noises about the West coast of Scotland but husband goes even more deaf than usual!
I hope the day is kind to everyone.

It's a very bright morning here in West Yorkshire so washer on .Dd had her first jab yesterday fingers crossed with no side effects .Hope everyone has a good day take care .

Good morning. Sunny here in Cheshire but looks a bit "watery" and forecast not great. Lazy start so will come back later to read everyone's news.

Passing on a message for our morning club from Susan : she’s taking a short break from posting and hopes to be back with us soon.

Good morning from currently sunny Lancashire. A day of sunshine and showers forecast. Happy Sunday ?

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Good morning all.
S&C I love Dobby. Perfection in every sense.
Don't think there will be any rainbows today Ash. Very dark grey sky and rain. Got wet through with dog walk and she didn't do a poop. So off again after breakfast.
ash £10 excellent.
Well done Warburtons. They make excellent crumpets. Had 2 yesterday and there were 9 more in the delivery last night. We love them with a mix of cheddar and blue stilton on.

Five days of hard labour from Mark, gardener, and raised beds are all in place with the necessary paving around them. Fruit cage is still to be sorted. That's in 3 weeks. You have before and after shots. Before are a result of not being able to garden for a full year! Covers are on to keep the fresh compost working till plants ready to go in.

Disappointing news from son. He heard nothing about the interview so he's still out of work. His birthday today so will be trying to raise his spirits when he rings.

Wishing everyone light hearts and happy minds. I see the sun is struggling to come through here in Cornwall

I hope Susan56’s daughter feels better soon.

With you on that Marydoll would leave the pie and eat the puds especially the tarte au citron.

The coast is doing better than inland Ellianne. Hope it lasts.
I got caught in a torrent two hours ago. Hoping to get to Wadebridge showground this afternoon.

Good morning, Mick and All from a cloudy but bright Carlisle where we are promised a showery day.
I'm going to have a day of doing things I like. No admin! But I did feel the need to log into my bank account which, like a lot of folk, I couldn't access yesterday. Just checking my cash was still there!
I can't develop my garden yet. I'm too late in the year to buy bare root trees and it's too early to order any for the autumn. Nursery websites look rather barren at the moment.
The mention of Plockton brought back happy memories, Urmston. It's a really delightful little place. I seem to remember it can't be got to in a straight line...
What a lovely little calf, Sheep, hope he does well.
And a happy peaceful Sunday to all, I'm off to do not much.

Morning all - late to the party this morning as we had a problem with our connection. Might have something to do with the torrential rain showers we have had from getting up to now with hardly a break. It's still a very dark and cloudy sky so I think we will have more to come. This is not normal south coast weather!.

Had a busy day yesterday with the click and collect visit to Tesco, three large loads of laundry (thanks to DH's renewed cycling activities) and then the arrival of a wet, muddy and hungry DS!

He had done the third quarter of his planned training rides of the South Downs Way ready for the big event on 25/26 June. He rode from Amberley to Plumpton and back. It was windy and showery so not pleasant conditions. He ate a huge cheese and ham sandwich, a piece of lemon drizzle cake and a kit-kat before, later on, fish, chips and peas, lemon tart and raspberries and clotted cream, for tea. As he had expended 3000 calories+ on the ride, I don't think the intake will have affected his weight one bit!.

DD and DGD turned up to see him and have a cup of tea and catch up so I had both my chicks and one chicklet here and that always makes me happy.

DD has another job application ongoing for another permanent University job, doing similar research to her present role. DGD was full of the house rental she has obtained ready for her second year at university, sharing with her boyfriend and 4 of their chums. It looks lovely and actually works out cheaper than the single room she has presently in halls.

Should be a quieter day today and we are having duck confit and new potatoes for lunch. DH's favourite.

Hope the day is a good one for us all. Enjoy the sunshine those who are fortunate enough to have it!

Good morning everyone. Sun is shining after a night of rain which made me glad I hid my latest little seedlings under shelter. Great big rain sploshes are not much encouragement.

A better day planned for me, I hope. Yesterday I spent mostly sitting fairly still, having had a nightmare evening the day before. Finished an early supper and went outside to move my wonderful (and demanding) hibiscus in case of rain. I was shocked to see the beautiful face of a local Siamese cat on our roof. At one stage she disappeared into the top of the chimney before walking directly above where our little Redstart nestlings are. The parent birds have been in attendance less and less and I can now see why! I connected the hosepipe and sprayed sufficiently to deter the cat. It was almost dark. I went indoors, picked up a tray of crocks and a glass tumbler, was sufficiently discomknockerated by the garden incident that I caught my toe on a step. My specs - and probably the ill will emanating from that Siamese didn’t help.

My whole life - or rather the outcome of a sprawling fall onto tiled floors - flashed before me. I fell hard onto both knees, then my hands, gripping the tray. Glass and crockery exploded around me so that I couldn’t move for fear of being cut. Yesterday, I couldn’t bend my legs, today is better. I do have bruising to the base of both thumbs - from the tray I assume - and currently misshapen knees, on which Arnica has worked wonders. I suppose I was very fortunate not to involve fractures, cuts, etc.

So......a slightly fragile soul in the South wishes you all a good day. Worse things happen at sea - and everywhere else - so wearing big girl pants I shall just quietly potter today and take care. Sadly I don’t need to be bird Mummy any more since although the cat was defeated, the parents never returned and the babies have perished. ?

Enjoy your outings and gatherings and trips away. How fabulous that those things are happening again and there’s hope for all. Here’s wishing you fun and sunny days as some normal life returns. Love the photographs and forgot to say, another triumph for doggie ? convalescent care, dragonfly, you should be very proud!

Take care, dear peeps.
Hugs from France ??
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