Good Morning Thursday 4 August

Good morning everyone from a cloudy but bright ish Severnside.

A good day yesterday getting on with a few things. Today I as I want to see if I can get my haircut and several errands and friend to visit to do I overslept.

Have a good day all ?

Good morning everyone from sunny Hampshire.
Not sure what’s going on today - but do need to pop into town to look at dishwashers.

Nannagarra we had Amtico laid in hallway, dining room and kitchen and DH went round sorting all our squeaky floorboards by screwing them all down. Worked a treat.

Maw - being short I have the same problem! A cushion can work as a sort of booster seat. I am waiting on some new glasses from optician and have requested light changing lenses this time. Fingers crossed that helps!

grandMattie that was a good spot from your hygienist and excellent service from your surgery. ?Hope all ok.

Have a good day everyone. I’ve had such a wonderful sleep and feel so refreshed - first time for months and doesn’t it make a difference!
Hugs and ?for you all ?

LLFL I read somewhere that a hall is the best place for bold choices as we are only walking through ton the way to a room!

And Nannagarra when we had a house it was built in 1929. A local builder advised us to sprinkle talcum powder liberally between the floor boards to stop the creaking. I remember I was pretty sceptical of the old guy. I was wrong.
✅

I wondered if you gave your eyes a good rub they might come off Urm but obviously not. I think I’d be having a tug on them every day though.

Holá SunshineSally ? it’s lovely to have you join us. I like your user name!

Good morning all from Glasgow, where it's currently 11°C.

I never got an opportunity to offer my condolences yesterday, Gwen. A very sad time for you!
That's good you got checked out GM. For twenty five years, my mother refused to have treatment for a basal cell ulcer, above her eye. Being a nurse, she should have known better. In the end it was too late.
I had something checked a few weeks ago, as I am obviously anxious about anything like that. Fortunately it was diagnosed as sun damage. You were very fortunate the hygienist spotted it, GM.

We had the loveliest of days with Dollie yesterday, ending up in a very wet Gourock. (come up here, Maw, plenty of rain)
DH and I were still laughing at her antics in bed last night, she is an unconscious comedian, keeping us entertained with her views on everything an nothing. I do acknowledge, I am biased. ?
She was such a tonic and certainly lifted my low mood to great heights.

According to her, the highlights of the day for her were a saucisson roll ( we have a game, where she cannot say sausages, a long story) and seeing a sumbarine, ( her pronunciation) in the Gareloch.
We pretended we were secret agents and that MI5 were after us taking for taking pictures. It was a hoot, I was in over dramatic mode and she was taking it all so seriously! ?

Annoyingly, we weren't out for as long as usual, as I was struggling a wee bit, so she insisted that we spend time in our home, before she went back to hers.
It turns out that there was a reason for this. The first thing she did was to rush upstairs and check her room the spare room. THEY HAVE GONE AND I HAVE MY ROOM BACK!
She was of course, referring to our erstwhile lodgers. ?

A quiet day is planned, apart from a visit from my Parish Priest. I haven't been to church for over a month, because my stomach pain and nausea, makes it impossible to sit for any length of time.
I don't really want to have to make conversation with people anyway at the moment. Now, that's a first! ?

Wishing you all the best of days and good luck with any medical appointments.

Good morning from a sunny W Kent. Off to my art group this morning. For the first time we are keeping going through the summer, we are all getting so old that we are no longer required for GC duty!. My turn to take the cake.
Best wishes to everyone struggling along, I have just had to use a cream for a sun spot on my face, big red blob for weeks, nobody very keen on kissing me specially youngest GC, can't blame him really.

? welcome SunshineSally

Good morning.

I notice that the year number has not appeared in the title for a few days.

Is there a reason for that please?

Good morning all from South Lanarkshire where the sun is trying valiantly to shine through the cloud cover. It’s been raining again, I’m so tired of this weather.

I wasted yesterday, lolled about doing nothing and feeling fed up so I’m giving myself a shake today.

My condolences to Gwen

No visit to Edinburgh as DoutL has taken the children to stay with her Mum on the south coast of England for a couple of weeks. I’m hoping they have lots of sunshine for their holiday.

A friend whose Dad is very ill has suggested we go out for coffee this morning so that she can think about something other than that. I hope our outing gives her a little break from her worries.

Have the best day possible everyone.

Good morning from a bright but grey Durham. I’m very restless, as I’m meeting a Valuer at my rental house this morning. After 14 years, I’ve decided to sell and despite the current tenants being ‘difficult’ I feel like Judas! I might pop to a nearby garden centre afterwards to mull things over.
Have DD2s older (13) dog here - part of a long term plan. I can see he’s starting to struggle, but he’s such a sweetheart and a happy little soul.
Have a good day.

Good morning all from Sunnyside northwest coast. I too am zonked MawtheMerrier after driving over 100 miles round trip yesterday to friend’s recital, including a crowd of us going on after it for a bite and socialising. He sent me a message too late to say I could park in the church car park, but I had already parked and set off on a walk to get there.
I sat near the back and couldn’t hear him speak, thought it was my hearing, but others said the same…
I hate low lying sun when driving, it’s downright dangerous! Apparently it was the cause of Prince Philip’s accident when he overturned his car.
Off now to take it for its MOT.
Welcome newcomers and thoughts to anyone with troubles.

StarDreamer

Good morning.

I notice that the year number has not appeared in the title for a few days.

Is there a reason for that please?

Good morning Star Dreamer, welcome to this gentle thread.

Mick, who starts the thread is on holiday at the moment, so others open up.

As long as the day and date are correct, the year is really not that important for me.
It's a chat thread, and every day is a new day, unlike other threads, which evolve.

Chrissielou - love to you and your brave girl . ♥️

Not long Chrissielou not long ?
Welcome SunshineSally what a lovely cheery post.
Still waiting with an empty glass pants ?

Good morning everyone from cloudy and showery Carlisle where it is currently 14C. I could say the same about the weather Baubles. You aren't that far from me so I expect we're getting the same stuff. Pity we can't blow it south to our drought-ridden friends down there.
I got an emergency appointment at the dentist yesterday morning. It was a good job I didn't suffer any longer in the hopes it would improve as it turned out to be the dreaded dry socket. I hadn't thought it was as there seemed to be a firm clot in the socket and the pain wasn't the horrendous pain I'd had on a previous occasion. My socket was cleaned and dressed and antibiotics prescribed for my worsening infection. I went home to the bliss of a pain-free mouth after days of all that side of it being pained and tingly. It's a little achey this morning and fingers crossed for the next few days.
I'm researching my cruise stops and gradually working up some enthusiasm for getting out of my rut at last. It's looking interesting. I'm going to have to pack for various weathers I think. It's currently hot but could easily change to cool and rainy I suspect. I'm trying to keep my suitcase lighter, it's not easy!

I hope you have a good last day with your DS grandMattie. What a treasure he's being.

And have a pleasant day all.

Marydoll

StarDreamer

Good morning.

I notice that the year number has not appeared in the title for a few days.

Is there a reason for that please?

Good morning Star Dreamer, welcome to this gentle thread.

Mick, who starts the thread is on holiday at the moment, so others open up.

As long as the day and date are correct, the year is really not that important for me.
It's a chat thread, and every day is a new day, unlike other threads, which evolve.

Good morning, Marydoll.

Thank you for your welcome.

Thank you for explaining.

I suppose it is my desire for completeness.

The lack of the year number does, however, reduce the accessibility of archives for future social historians.

Yet, the thread is for communication now, archiving is just incidental.

Good morning everyone. It’s sunny in my corner of Lancashire but lots of cloud about and it has been raining. It’s currently 16°C.

I have had a fall this morning and bashed my back against a hard object. I’m feeling a little shaky, also disappointed as I have been doing so well. I will read the thread later.

Have the best day you can everyone ???

Well, I’m back! ?? with the reason to celebrate…..
I got 3 numbers on last night’s lottery and won the princely sum of £30 which is why I trotted to Lidl this morning with MrPG who wanted some DIY offers! ? their champers is 13.99 and delishus ? so help yourself jax?

Condolences to Gwen, how sad to lose a family member ? and hope all the ‘DDs’ have a good day, given their trials and tribulations at the moment x

Gosh LLFL you’re brave ? - do show us the hall when it’s finished, I imagine it’ll be stunning!

Hope all on their travels have fun and urms doesn’t forget her ? sweeping duties….

Blossoming ouch take it easy ?

Good morning from an overcast NE.
Had a long chat with the nurse practitioner yesterday, I have been referred to the hospital because I have lost 16 kilos and with other symptoms this is causing concern.
SIL had dinner together and then watched a film on Netflix, Rogue agent with James Norton, we really enjoyed it.
DS working today so I have an empty and don't have to cook for the family.

Good morning Auntyflo and all x

On the matter of light dazzle from the sun while driving.

I had a similar, yet different, problem years ago when driving to and from work.

I am somewhat taller than average and mostly I did not get direct sun in my eyes, but I got considerable reflected sun from the road surface.

I wear prescription glasses anyway, so I got some prescription photochromic glasses. However, although they worked well if I was outside my car, they did not work when driving, as they relied on direct sunlight. I do not know if the light transitting through the car windscreen reduces the photochromic effect.

The solution for me was to get some clip-on sunglasses, but not the barely tinted ones from some general shops, but some that looked black from an optician shop, but in fact worked very well.

Later I got some prescription sunglasses, tinted a deep brown and ultraviolet protection coated and anti-glare coated and they were wonderful. No glare and colours enhanced, not looking as being tinted brown.

Apparently how they do the brown colour is to soak them in a solution. The longer the soak, the browner the effect.

However, for driving they must not be too dark, so it needs advice from an optometrist.

As you are both shorter than me the photochromic lenses might work for you when driving. I no longer drive.

I have also had photochromic prescriptions glasses SD and find them less useful for driving and of course the photochromic effect does not take work behind a (tinted-albeit lightly) windscreen. I’m not sure they had the polarising “effect” which is helpful to reduce glare on e.g, wet roads, especially in sunshine. I used to hate them for everyday wear too as going out of bright sunshine and into a shop, pub or restaurant , I found myself temporarily blinded until they readjusted to the light.
But thank you for your response.
I’ll just have to eat up my greens and try to grow a couple of inches.

Blossoming hope you are by too shaken up by your fall and back feels better soon .Condolences Gwen. I'm still testing positive although they now say chances of being infectious to others after 5days I am trying to stay away from people . It's a beautiful day here so will be sitting in the garden .