Good Morning Monday 17th October 2022

Good Morning from a sunny at the moment Algarve.
Just popped in to send congratulations and best wishes to you and your family Marydoll. What lovely news!
Also safe journey to Urms, I like your cartoon. Welcome back to the sunshine this afternoon. Although we have a chilly wind I expect it is warmer round the corner in Spain. DH is outside brushing fallen olives off the steps.

Good morning from a now brighter West Sussex (it was raining heavily when I went to bed and still raining when I woke up).

Mick I hope you can get some helpful advice from the liaison nurse and that you are feeling a bit better today.

Marydoll, how lovely to hear that you are to be ‘granny’ to a second dgc. Congratulations also on your triumph with the parish website - I wish I had you here to help me with my techie challenges. It doesn’t help having to use a Mac when I was used to a PC at work ?

Ash, I hope the funeral goes well - maybe being at your old church will help to heal the past hurts. I think CofE clergy are put in an impossible position when the authorities issue very black and white rulings on moral issues that are rarely straightforward. Some seem to work round the official line with more humanity than others. I notice Ladylfl is also going to a funeral today, in a church that she left. I hope that is also a positive experience, even though it is a funeral.

I seem to have lost the art of précis so will just say I have read and enjoyed reading all your news.

I have a tai chi session at lunchtime and plans to assemble my Aldi cold frame for winter salad showings and some cuttings to go in. I am very challenged by numbered pictorial instructions so wish me luck!

Congratulations Marydoll wonderful news, and understand why Dollie is extra precious!

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Congratulations on the new grandchild *Mary; very exciting! Our premie is doing extremely well. He now weighs three and a half pounds and is piling on ounces daily. The blessings of mother’s milk!
My appointment this morning saw me in the hospital half an hour early, seen and out by the time my appointment was actually scheduled. I wandered back in the early morning sun, towards where I had arranged for SiL to pick me up, via the botanical gardens. The trees and plants looked lovely.