Good Morning Wednesday 6th October 2021

?For Grandmattie

I rarely post but do read every day. Grandmattie, I wish you strength and comfort in these terrible dark days.

Thinking of grandMattie, harrigran and Maw on a difficult day for them and hoping that love surrounds them.

I see the Secretary of State for Health is telling us that family should be the people who care for the old and the ill rather than the state. As a carer whose children are at a considerable distance and who have very demanding lives of their own I don’t see how this will ever be possible, and whilst I am absolutely prepared to soldier on I do wonder what will happen if/when it all gets too much!

Good morning Auntyflo and all x

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

Kind thoughts for grandMattie & your family at this very hard time.

Also thinking of Maw.

Take Care, all of you, especially harrigran, .

Enjoy your meet up, lovely ladies of Essex.

Morning Mick and all.
Weather looks bright with cold breeze here in West Yorks may get to finish garden tidy before picking DGCs up from school.Since Covid school has changed start/finish times 08.40/2.30 and as we have to leave by 2p.m our morning just flies by.
Grandmattie,Harrigran my thoughts are with you both ❤?
Maw ?
Keep safe and do hope the day holds some pleasure for all.

? Granmattie
? to all going through trying times .

Good morning Mick and everyone from a sunny but chill Carlisle.
I went to the dentist yesterday in torrential rain and got wet just crossing the road to them. There was only a crown to fix back on but it wasn't simple. He had a struggle as the base had deteriorated but finally succeeded. The prognosis is poor...if it comes off again no root canal treatment and new crown is possible, it will be another extraction. I seem to be on the way to toothless old hag-dom....As I was told not to chew on that side, I asked him to check the other side where I'd had an extraction 3 weeks ago. A good job he looked as he found a little shard of bone sticking out that had been working its way out. He removed it, obviously causing a bleed so I couldn't eat on that side either so it was home with instructions for only cold and soft food. So an evening of eating a dinner well mashed up and getting it down very very slowly. The joys of getting ancient!
Enough of my trivia...I'm constantly thinking of you grandMattie and harrigran. These are such difficult times for you both. I'm glad you both have families by for support.

Maw thank you for sharing, thinking of you today ?

Bittersweet memories Maw ❤️?

Good Morning all from bright and breezy Harrogate - I sense today is the day that goes wrong!! Judging by my first attempt at posting here - my login details where required and not recognised!! finally got in as you see. This morning I was incensed receiving an email from a company who I did order from but cancelled when they started adding charges after they got my Credit details, have now added more than twice the price!! I have been on to my bank, which makes me think of chocolate teapots - can't imagine why!! They've been too happy to block my card in the past, but now I have to fight for everything!! Moan over.
hugs to GrandMattie, Harrigran and Maw such difficult days

Have the best day you can folks

Good morning,

It’s a bright, sunny but chilly morning here today after torrential rain and strong winds yesterday evening and through the night. Quite a contrast.

? grandMattie. I hope you will be able to draw some comfort from having family and close friends by your side over the next few days ?.

Maw ? for you, too. A difficult day.

? Harrigran

Take care everyone.

Good morning Mick, Annie, Marydoll, and all.
To GrandMattie, may you feel the love and kindness of all us GN's surround you in the days to come.
Also to Maw, and Harrigran ??
Can't write any more as I have tears in my eyes.

Thoughts are with GrandMattie and her family.??

Good morning Mick and all from a sunny Lancashire coast.
Firstly, thinking of you grandMattie, such a hard time but hope the family’s support will help ease such a difficult day.
I’m pondering putting my heat on, holding out, but I do face the Irish ‘ocean’, one of the final residential roads before the sea in this town, so that’s my excuse. It seems warmer outside than in.
I’m a bit overtired after gallivanting out every day and singing yesterday. I have been asked to sing in Xmas concerts too with more get togethers so will have to have a think. But I’m a long time dead so out again today to a piano recital. It’s going to have to be early nights for me to get through it all, not something I find easy to do.
Sending thoughts to harrigran?

Late good morning from coastal West Sussex. Bluest of blue skies here today but cool and breezy.

Thoughts with you and your family, Grandmattie.

Thoughts also with you, Harrigran and your family. Thank you for sharing that beautiful picture of you sitting with DH, listening to your DD playing the piano below you.

GrannySomerset, no one with any humanity or common sense thinks that carers can carry on indefinitely without outside support. I hope you are in contact with a local carers support group and are able to ask for more help. I could start on a rant about politicians and their ignorance of real lives but I will spare you and everyone on here! to you.

Maw

Now to my pan of raspberries and sugar waiting to become jam .

EkwaNimitee, sympathy from a fellow “on her way to toothless hagdom” sufferer! I have an appointment booked for an extraction in a couple of weeks as my front tooth post-crown was glued back for the last time by my dentist with dire warnings of likely infections if I don’t have the crumbling base tooth taken out. I already have a partial denture so another tooth will be added. Previous extractions have been hidden further back. I blame soft Scottish water and the ending of sugar rationing in 1954 for the state of my teeth ?

Rather late getting up to a lovely sunny day in Anglesey.
Sad memory Maw
Tough days ahead grandMattie
In my thoughts Harrigran
Hoping for some random moments of happiness for all. Those little unexpected things that make you smile.
I’ve got my shorts out again, not a sight you want to imagine, but love having brown legs, and am about to help Orlin spread some newly delivered gravel.
Good tip about drinking water before giving blood Stillearning, I’ll try it next time.
and ?? for all

Good afternoon, Mick and all GMfolks.
There was frost on the cars in North Lanarkshire at 7 am today when I was walking the Granddog, bright and sunny now.

I'm another who reads daily but seldom posts, but I've been very moved by the poignant posts from Grandmattie Harrigran??? and Maw.
Just to say that I'm thinking of all those with sorrow and illness, sending love and prayers to those who need/ wish them. ?????

I'll be remembering Grandmattie, and all those who love and mourn Philip, especially the fine young man in the Star Wars waistcoat, at Mass tomorrow morning.