Good Morning Saturday 1st January 2022 (New Years Day)

Good morning all and a Happy New Year from Polmont. 13°, still quite dark and dry at the moment.
I'm having family and friends later for dinner so I shall potter about all day. I hope you all have a good day.

Good Morning and Happy New Year! to Mick and all who come on this lovely thread.
Sending you very best wishes for a much brighter 2022. ?

Happy New Year all!
I’ve had a peek outside and it looks pretty much like last year. Happy to report Rosie seemed unaware of or at least unfazed by any fireworks last night.
None near us or particularly loud but Hattie and Gracie would have been quivering wrecks so a huge relief.
Wishing you all good health and good heart.

Happy New Year. I went to bed at 10. Was too tired to stay up. But I've still enjoyed it staying in watching tele.

Good morning Auntyflo and all

Happy New Year

H A P P Y NEW YEAR ‼️

Good morning everyone from south Manchester where I’m up late because we went to bed after 1am. Ooh-er! It’s dry, seems chilly but the sun’s up which is a nice start to 2022.

Our friends are still abed so we’re creeping...

HAPPY NEW YEAR from Harrogate
Thanks Mick for starting us off again for this New Year!
My thoughts are with GrannySomerset and Gingster your DD is having a tough time
We stayed up, but only just until the New Year Arrived
Got lots to do today, so I’d better get a move on!
Make this day the best yet, and 2022 the best year yet!!

Good morning from a bright is Leicestershire.

The New Year arrived without us either. I was too tired at 10.
The dog slept through the fireworks.

My thoughts are with GrannySomerset this morning.

Wishing you all a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Good morning and Happy New Year from North Lancashire. It’s fine and windy and not too cold so we’re off out with the dog.

Wishing you a year filled with good health, hope, happiness, peace and new beginnings. We didn't see the new year in, but wake to some sunshine which is welcome, it is breezy and mild in Oxfordshire at the moment.

Good morning all from a mild, but wild Glasgow. It't 12°here, the mildest New Year on record.

My first thoughts were for Granny Somerset, such a sad time for you. I pray that with the support of your family, you will find the strength and peace to get through the coming weeks. ?

Baubles, I hope your PCR is negative. DS2 messaged to say that he and his fiancée are awaiting test, since some of future DIL's family, nurses and police officers have tested positive after a Boxing Day get together. I think it is unavoidable now. DS2 is vulnerable, ( he carries an Epipen) like Dollie and I, so I am very concerned.
On a lighter note, I received a letter yesterday with a dedicated phone number, saying that I was eligible for priority PCR testing and anti viral medication if I catch ( God forbid) Covid. Some heartening news at last!
I did email the Chief Medical Officer to ask why anti viral treatment was available in England for the immunocompromised, but not in Scotland. Result!

Yesterday did not quite go quite to plan. The Morrisons' order arrived in torrential rain. It was like a Laurel and Hardy sketch, with DD and DH falling over each other, trying to empty the trays in the pouring rain. Everything was soaked and in the middle of DD ranting about wet soup and cornflour packets and unwelcome substitutions, I had a dizzy spell, then began to feel as if I was going to faint.
DD and DD were so busy getting each other's way, they didn't even notice, until I disappeared to sit down! To cap it all, essential stuff was missing and after sorting out who's shopping was who's, DH decided to mix it all up again by helping to put it away.
We then had Diva DD, screeching about missing items. They were NOT missing, just displaced by DH.......and breathe! ​

On the request of DH and SIL, I made sticky toffee pudding. Even although a seasoned baker, I had never made it before. When I looked at the recipe, I decided to double up, but forgot to double some of the amounts. I usually write the double up amounts down, but didn't want to write on my new Michel Roux cookbook, a gift from SIL.
The finished article looked too runny, so I set DH the task of looking it up on YouTube, in order to see how runny it should be. He footered so much and spent so much time looking, I gave up and eventually banged it in the oven.

In the middle of Toffeegate, the landline rang. It was DS1, to say Dollie wouldn't be coming, as DIL had tested positive again, despite it being 12 days, since her PCR test. He then got cut off, but a few minutes later, my mobile and the landline were rang at the same time.
My call was from the NHS ( heart sinks, have I been pinged?). so I asked DH to answer the landline. I then noticed as well as the NHS call, I had one from DS. I couldn't access the NHS one, to press any key on the key pad, because my phone was flashing with DS's number.
I asked DH who had been on the landline. ^I heard you talking on the phone, so I hung up, I thought you had answered it!!???????
I wept at the thought of not seeing Dollie.

An hour later, the phone rang once more and it was DS1 again, saying DIL had phoned the Coronovirus helpline for advice.
They advised that this happened with people who have had Covid, but she would no longer be infectious and was free to visit. I wept again, this time tears of joy!

DS said they would only come, if I was comfortable with it. It turns out Dollie had got up early and dressed herself in her best clothes to come down to see us.
Part of our gifts to Dollie was a Beano box of jokes. She spent the whole afternoon squealing with delight , playing tricks on us. She reminded me so much of DS2. We spent a lot of time in Tam Shepherd's Joke Shop in Glasgow, when he was young.

The icing on the cake was seeing DS and DH, testing a few whiskies and chatting like old times, like they used to do. It reminded me so much of my dear FIL and DH, despite having eight children, my MIL used to say I was his favourite.
A glimmer of hope in a terrible two years.

I need to gird my loins, DD has insisted in making dinner today in my kitchen, in my ovens, but before that, I must go and sort the boozy marmalade for my neighbours, which hasn't set.
Every new Year, they get a gift of treats from me, but I haven't been so enthusiastic this time.
However, the tablet was so good, I have eaten much of it, so it will be a small, bag for them!

Sending my very best wishes for a happier and healthier year for all my GN friends. Here's to us! ?

Good morning Mick and Everyone, Happy New Year from Carlisle!
It's heavy cloud and a bit showery here at the moment but is supposed to brighten up later when DS2 and I may drive out somewhere.
Last night it was red wine, chocolate and watching a film, we didn't stop up and weren't disturbed by fireworks. All very quiet here. Maybe it was different in the city centre where there may have been an invasion from over the border where communal fun seems to have been banned.

My thoughts and sympathies are with GrannySomerset today.

Good morning and Happy New Year to you all.

Yesterday I took GS to the panto - it was his first time. He loved it as did I. Oh yes we did! A new tradition for us now I think.
Came home and DH and I shared a pizza and fizz. We watched a film The Aftermath and then watched Andre Rieu and the London fireworks which were very inventive. We were trying to work out how they’d done it.

A walk planned today and a gammon in the slow cooker for tea.

Thoughts to GrannySomerset. ?

A Happy New Year from the S Welsh coast where it is very mild and dry. Thankfully our little dog wasn't much bothered by the fireworks last night.

Good Morning , and a Happy New Year ?, I woke for a visit to the wee hoose just before midnight so you could say I saw in the New Year !
Dollies visit certainly cheered you up Marydoll , she’s a great tonic
Thoughts are with GrannySomerset xxx

Good morning all, thank you Mick, from a dry, mild S Hants.
A happy and healthy new year to all. A late, or early, one for us, nearly 1am, just MrJ, myself and Jools!
Thoughts with GrannySomerset* at this most difficult of times.
Have a gentle day ???

Good morning from the Sefton coast where it is windy but dry.
We spent yesterday afternoon at DS1’s house (DS2 at the time was in A & E and came home with a boot to support his right leg). Sustained by a delicious Indian take away, we settled down to let in the new year. How we enjoyed singing along to a chart of 1980s hits at the top of which was “Last Christmas”. Gosh, did we really dress like that and have such hair styles? Yes we did!
Wishing you the very best for 2022. May all your dreams come true.
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Happy New Year to all! Thank you for letting me into your little gang. As with others, thoughts are with Grannysomerset this morning.
I’m looking forward to taking all the decs down today and having a good clean up. Might leave a string of white fairy lights up though as I like them so much! I’m also looking forward to trying to lose this extra weight I have put on - I daren’t get on the scales yet ? I feel like a beached whale at the moment! Here’s to fresh starts for everyone x

Happy new year from North Yorkshire.
Sending best wishes to everyone for 2022.

Morning all

Thank you Mick for starting 2022, let’s hope its a good one, with plenty of cheer

I am still lazing in bed #lazy Gran (I am really trying hard to get this right Urmstongran ). No plans I will just go with the flow. Might go for a walk as the sky is blue here in S E Essex.

Stayed up with DD and the 6 yr old to see in the New Year. There were so many spectacular fireworks in the sky, a sign people were staying at home I think.

Need to gaze lovingly into the freezers to find dinner for this evening, I totally forgot to plan any meals for today. I was focusing on Roast Pork for tomorrow ?

Thinking of our dear grannysomerset sending love and prayers.

Keep safe and well folks ?‍♀️?

Happy New Year Mick and everyone from a (so far) sunny Oxfordshire.
Only a few fireworks last night in the village so after yet another New Years evening of Jules Holland in the background, me reading a Bill Bryson and MrOops watching an old boxing match on his iPad, I shuffled off to bed and laid there wide awake until 3am….
Anyway MissOops and nephew will be here soon with the dog, after looking at their potential new home,fingers crossed the Landlord likes them, home made chicken soup for lunch as per their request.
Thought are with Grannysomerset
Marydoll what a day you had! But so pleased that it all turned out well.
My thoughts are with those who aren’t having a Happy New Year. Must go as I haven’t had a shower since last year!

Happy new year to all, Lang may yer lum reek, from the east coast of fife where the wind outside is blowing a hoolllie, apart from that I’m still lying in my cosy cosy bed keeping watch on the outside from my video ring bell.

I’ve now become the local stalker Only a few pit stops last night and no early phone call interruptions thank goodness for that. Lots of lovely messaging going on though, something I can attend to at my own leisure meant to say marydoll I do love the expression to gird your loins ?

Happy days are coming back again, to those in doubt keep the faith

Good morning from a still damp Dorset, but the sky is blue which is a nice change. Wishing everyone the best New Year possible, and hoping that 2022 will be a better year for us all.

A Happy-and hopefully a healthy-New Year to one and all from this “lurker” in Staffs.
Love to hear from Gwen as DD1 lives in Harrogate.
Exciting day today; dear GD1’s new boyfriend is coming to visit and we’ll meet him ? Her parents have already met him and like him-he’s a keeper!

Good morning and a Happy New Year from the Black country, sunny once again could get used to this.
Will read through later Saturday morning full English is calling.
Wishing everyone a better 2022 stay safe and may you all find some ?.