Good morning Mick, morning all from freezing cold South Lanarkshire.
It must be nice to see your social calendar filling up Mick.
Belated birthday wishes to Kitty and J52.
Have a lovely time at the ballet gagagran, I’m quite envious.
You can’t keep a good woman down Marydoll, a year on and you’re still shopping for Scotland! 
Glad your DD was refunded Alizarin, it doesn’t make up for the shocking treatment she received though.
A sad day for you Urms.
A day off today as we can’t childmind due to me being unwell and one of the mindees has tested positive anyway. This is a strange virus, yesterday evening I felt dreadful, symptoms seem to go up and down, then I realised that my sense of smell has suddenly deserted me. Yesterday was day 8 since the onset of my symptoms, yet for others I know that has been the first, and in some cases, only symptom. All very weird.
I may do some more of my training today instead of working all day tomorrow, it’s quite tiring.
Wishing everyone a peaceful day.
Good morning from a cold and frosty NE.
Yesterday was quite a productive day. SIL came in the morning and we got things put away in the attic, while he was up there he located a suitcase and put it handy.
After lunch we did a big Sainsbury's shop and got my fridge replenished. Now that I have sold DH's car thought we would phone the insurance company and see if we could get a rebate for the remaining unused period, result, they say I am due several hundred pounds.
Checked the premium bonds and had two wins and DH would have been tickled to find he has won a few prizes every month since he died.
Nothing planned for today, catch up on some reading maybe.
Happy belated birthday to kitty 
Thinking of GrannySomerset.
Good morning all, from a very chilly Glasgow, our heating kicked in at 3am, due to the cold.
Belated birthday greetings to Kitty and J52. Alizarin, that was a good result for your daughter, to say the least. However, it should never have happened in the first place.
Baubles, I hope you managed to get through your training yesterday, difficult to do when you are feeling under par.
Another quiet day here. On the feast of the Epiphany last year, I had my second heart attack in the middle of a global pandemic. I was more afraid of catching Covid in hospital than anything else, consequently I have no trouble remembering the date of the attack, when asked! 
I certainly had an epiphany, when I realised I was not immortal after all!
I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for all those working in the NHS. Unless you have witnessed it first hand, you can have no conception of the pressure staff are under, yet they never faltered in their dedication, professionalism and kindness towards me.
My only plan for today is clean out my fridge, which I have been putting off for days! It's a job I detest doing!
Due to my incarceration, I have been running amok, doing Internet shopping and securing many bargains for upcoming birthdays. I'm feeling quite smug about it, as I have saved a fortune, without putting myself at risk in the shops. I did manage some totally unnecessary personal purchases, including an acqua coloured, Teddy coat, I certainly didnt need, which was a steal, compared to the quality one ? Urms bought! It will probably be summer, before I get a chance to wear it!! ?
Today, I need to find somewhere to put my many purchases
However, after four different deliveries yesterday, DH will need to visit the tip. There was so much paper packing crammed into a number of unsuitably large boxes, that our paper recycling bin is overflowing.
He said my motives are rather suspicious, suspecting that I do it just to have someone to chat to!!
My thoughts are with GrannySomerset, her family and those daughters and daughter in laws, who are poorly. ?
Have the best day you can, whatever your plans.
Good morning everyone from south Manchester where it’s cold out as I can see frosty roofs, but the sun is coming up behind those Pennines. A beautiful gold and apricot streak. Snow is forecast as an amber warning for the Gtr. Manchester area and we are off to a family funeral mid morning, picking my stepfather up en route. Afterwards we’ve been invited back to their local pub. We will go but be aware of numbers and mingling. Himself has reminded me ‘no hugs and kisses’ which seems sad when meeting up with grieving relatives but necessary in these times.
At least we get to gather to pay our respects and comfort one another at this funeral at all. This time last year, a friend in her 70’s who has MS and is immunosuppressed held her dear husband’s hand (58y married) to say her last goodbye before he was put in the ambulance with cancer for end of life care. She never got to see him again. And the funeral in February was only attended by less than 10 people with no wake allowed afterwards. She says she looks back at that awful time with great sadness and regret.
Anyway .... to brighter days eh? Here’s Matt. x
Good Morning everyone from a chilly south coast. Think we are due a brief spell of milder then rain later today.
I'm late this morning because I have been doing a LFT ready for my WI outing this afternoon. We are going to see The Nutcracker by the Moscow City Ballet at Chichester Festival Theatre. I did um and ha about going but decided that as I am triple jabbed, had the original virus in April 2020 and need some social interaction before I mummify, then I would go. We have to wear masks throughout and the air is changed in the theatre regularly I am told.
One of my Christmas gifts was a very large outdoor thermometer which is destined to be fitted to the garden fence so I can read it from the house. I like keeping records and check the temperature every morning when I get up so I am very pleased with this gift and hopefully we will get it fixed tomorrow.
Hope everyone has the best day possible. I too keep thinking of GrannySomerset and her DH. Such hard days for them. 
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