Good Morning Wednesday 11th January 2023

Good morning from a very cloudy E Kent.
Enjoy your holiday planning for the coming year, Mick.
The weather has been unpleasant with strong, penetrating winds making it feel colder than it really is.
The WI meeting last night was more interesting than I remembered, more details, more photos. Several people talked to me too, making it a fairly pleasanter evening. I no longer enjoy evening outings though.
Today, I’ve got the knit and natter at Age Concern, then absolutely must do my Spanish homework for tomorrow.
Hope everything goes well for everyone. Carpe diem. 🦩🦩🦩
PS Nice to see Lauranorder back.

Good morning from a damp Torbay after a wet and windy day yesterday.

It’s good to have breaks to which you can look forward, Mick; it helps the year along. I’m glad you enjoyed W.I. more than anticipated, grandMattie, but coming home to an empty house in Winter isn't pleasant.

Our theatre has heating issues currently so I didn’t enjoy attending Props yesterday and felt off colour for much of the day. Never mind; overall my good days are outnumbering the other kind by quite a margin. And it gave me a reason to snuggle under a blanket for the afternoon!

DH is heading for Derby today so we have an early start for him to catch a train from Newton Abbot. He is meeting some old friends for lunch. I have a cardiac rehabilitation Teams meeting then Wednesday Club.

Happy hump day, everyone! 🦩🥰🦩💐🦩

Morning Mick, morning All from a soggy corner of Somerset.

Some list progress yesterday encouraged a venture out for a cuppa mid afternoon. All very mundane really. Back to routine today. Grocery delivery and dust removal. Heavy rain forecast for most of the day along with a strong wind, no plans to venture forth.

Our friend from Norfolk has been quite poorly, enough to worry us. Better news yesterday brought a smile to our faces and relief in her daughters voice.

Hope theres a smile for everyone today.

good morning, s somerset has two heavy rain days again. It is certainly not a bright and sparkly january this year

I am wool winding and jumper finishing later and I shall be able to wear it in two days. This is local yarn from local sheep from a small local mill. It is definitely warm and very cosy and needed after a chilly day yesterday. I was glad to do the last cable

I had a final account check with monmouthshire building society yesterday, had to send them some details but I have persisted as it will be nice to get 5.5% for a year of saving in 2023. I am very happy indeed to be withing easy walking distance of a post box and shops

The stove is set and ready to light but I am going to wait until after saturday when the weather will actually be colder, I don`t really like the cleaning after a lit day

Good morning, wet and windy in Wiltshire 🙄😊, I can hear the wind from my cosy bed, it’s lashing down with rain, again.
Telephone consultation with a GP yesterday resulted in me going for more bloods this morning, ECG next week and an agreement that my heart failure is ramping up. I think I’m worn out really!
Hand massage and manicure later, a blissful hour of pampering.
I do hope you all enjoy today x

Good morning from a much calmer Oxfordshire, the winds last night were howling around the chimney pots.

I went to Heythrop Mick years ago for one of our Company away days, it’s a lovely place and Warner Holidays are usually excellent.

Shopping delivery today and some ironing, I did a bit of cooking yesterday so don’t have to bother today.

Dog has gone home so no wet walks today.

Hope everyone has a good day and virtual hugs for those who aren’t so chipper. Let’s hope the sun shines at some stage today.

Good morning all from East Yorkshire. The moon is still bright in the sky but I can see cloud around it.

Today as the weather isn’t supposed to be too good again we are going to Meadowhall. This is mainly to go to an actual M&S to exchange a Christmas present. I also remembered I have some trousers I’d ordered from there online that were too short. I’d forgotten all about them with Christmas doings so I’ll return them at the same time.

Have a good day everyone.

Here’s Matt.

Good morning everyone from south Manchester. It’s dark but dry. Busy down there below me this morning, a Trafford road sweeper lorry has just noisily trundled past, lit up like Christmas tree, the 6:35am train to Manchester Oxford Road has just pulled away from Platform 1 and, in the distance, I can see the red winking lights of a plane coming into land at Manchester airport.

I’m absolutely delighted to tell you all that there was no night time telephone emergency call from my stepfather. Yay! That’s now 3 consecutive nights. I’m hoping this means he’s turned a corner. From 2am I woke up every hour though (it’s on my mind very much after bedtime) and found myself just checking the time on my phone, dreading a call, but grateful there hadn’t been one.

Yesterday was challenging. My stepfather opened the door to a district nurse who had called to administer urgent Vit.B injections, every day for 5 days. She went away, asking my 90y old stepfather to ‘sort it out’ with his GP as she assumed he’d have them. He of course rang me. I was on the phone for over an hour, ringing the doctors surgery, who gave me the ‘hub’ number for Trafford district nurses. Turns out that Apparently the ampoules have to be ‘on the property’ when they call - and they weren’t. I rang the surgery back requesting an urgent prescription be dispensed today and when (if) they arrive I’ve said I’ll let the district nursing team know.

Left hands and right hands come to mind. Himself said ‘multinational companies can sort out major logistics smoothly yet the NHS departments cannot liaise between a doctor, a pharmacy and a district nurse’. I bet the poor district nurse was cross. That visit was a waste of her time. Just one tiny example of the inefficient coordination that goes on in the NHS. Replicate this up and down the country? No wonder there’s a black hole sucking in money and resources. Yet nowadays we even have the technology to assist!
Rant over.

Anyhoo ...
We are going over to him mid morning and picking up a list to do his M&S shop for him. He said last night he didn’t think he felt up to coming which is perfectly understandable so we’ll fetch his groceries. I said he can always see how he feels and change his mind if he wants when we call.

Have a good Wednesday if you can and while you can. These last couple of weeks have been an eye opener for me. How things can turn on a sixpence and how a person can go from coping to leaning can be quite alarming when events change.

Starting tomorrow I’m going to try to be succinct!
I may have to use bullet points ...
😁

Good to hear your SF has had another night free of the nose bleeds Urms . Fingers crossed it carries on. Re the nurses visit yes it is sad and an annoying waste of precious resources that they can’t get their act together. As you say it sounds like it is replicated around the country. Hope it can be sorted for you soon.

Urms, like you I learned the hard way for DH.
Hospice, GP, pharmacy, district nurses who incidentally were heroic in their attempts to help. The Surgeries were generally the stumbling block, followed by the pharmacy. I discovered (by bribing them with chocolates) that once they got to know me, they would order the drugs while waiting for the GP to bother sending the prescription. Good luck

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders.
It feels cold but it's supposed to be dry today.
The art centre is temporarily out of action after flooding so our yarn group will be in the church hall. I hope to get this cardigan finished.
Then I have a hospital appointment for my hip.
It's my DB birthday today. He says he feels old so I reminded him that I would always be older 🤣
DD was looking after 7 DC yesterday during the teacher's strike.
I hope that the ambulance driver's strike doesn't impact on any of our GM era.
Have as good a day as you can.

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 5°, windy and wet. Urmston you are correct that health can turn so quickly. My lovely friend is an example of that. I am glad you weren't required last night for your sake and for that of your stepdad. BlueBalou💐 I'm glad Grandmattie that you enjoyed the meeting last night. Ashcombe I hope you feel better today.
Yesterday was busy with the two boys. It was very noisy too. I'm not used to that anymore. A sign of living alone I suppose. However all three of us survived. I enjoy spending time with them, even if I am exhausted by the end of it.
Today I have an early haircut as I had to cancel the last one due to covid. Then I'll visit mum. I'm not seeing my friend today as she has to go to the lawyer. She's had a UTI on top of her other health problems. I feel so sorry for her.
I made chicken curry last night and I have enough for today so this afternoon will be mainly pottering and doing nothing much. Have a good day all.

Good morning everyone from Inverness, it’s just getting light and it looks windy and wet
Today I’m off to the gym first thing for a dance aerobics class and then a dentist appointment afterwards. Ive one tooth that’s really quite sensitive so I’m not sure what’s going on there, hopefully they’ll know and be able to sort it out
Such good news about your DSF Urms so pleased things seem a bit better and hope the injections can be sorted today
Thinking of everyone with worries and struggles, hope today is gentle and take care all whatever the day brings 💐

Good morning all from South Lanarkshire where the incessant rain makes for a miserable outlook.

I got lots done around the house yesterday so felt quite pleased with myself.

It’s a work day for me so I’ll have to shake a leg.

Wishing you all the best day possible, hoping those feeling under par have a better day.

Good morning from a dark, chilly Colchester. Yesterday was cold and wet. No rain expected until this afternoon now.
Usual Wednesday coffee meetup in the city centre this morning. Our group has been going for quite a few years and are always welcoming to new ladies.

Urms my Dad has his legs treated and dressed at a weekly surgery appointment. He has to make sure that the equipment is delivered to the surgery from the pharmacy before he goes. It's definitely an odd system and you need to be on the ball.

Love to all 🦩 x

Good morning all from a, currently, dry North Leicestershire.

Yesterday was a bit full on in the Lester household. My appointment with the gp was encouraging but I came out of the practice to discover that DD3 had slipped on her morning walk round a local reservoir and the lovely lady who found her had rung 999. She had been told there would be a 6 hour wait. The ambulance actually only took 30 minutes. She has a badly sprained ankle rather than a broken one. We were on route to rescue her having collected DS1's wheelchair so, instead, collected her car and stood ready for further instructions. I think we will be on school run duties for a while.

In the midst of all this DH did a voluntary drive and I tried to put the house to rights after our weekend with DD2.

I hope today is calmer.

Good Morning everyone from Severnside. It’s not raining.

A few jobs to do and probably see if there is enough for the washing machine to go on.
Better news of your step father Urm. I expect the nurse has many times like that unfortunately.

Have the best day you can all 🌼

A dark but calmer start to the day weather wise in Oxfordshire. Everywhere is so wet and many fields flooded around us. We keep to higher ground when dog walking.
Working at home this week, much prefer it to going into the office. I'm not a very sociable person, although can pretend to be when required.
Sad to hear of all the health issues and for those with worries, and let's face it, that's most of us to some degree, have an calm day.

Good morning from a blustery Leicestershire, we are promised sun this morning.

Pilates first thing, then Ocado delivery then picking the car up from service.

Our surgery have just appointed someone who specialises in prescriptions Urms I am not sure how efficient he is but he sorted out some medicine for DH which was unavailable. I hope you get yours sorted today.

Good morning everyone.
Not feeling great this morning. It is our first craft club meeting this afternoon but I’ll see how I feel. Luckily my friend is in-charge of the project.
Otherwise an easy day, maybe catch up with the sketching print that I missed due to visitors being here and also do todays. Both quite challenging, something white and wallpaper !
Wishing all a good day and thoughts with those who are troubled or poorly.

A very good morning from what looks like a calm and so far dry Suffolk. We could tell from our flooded drive yesterday that the lanes would likely be flooded so we didn’t venture out to collect DH’s car from the garage. My keep fit classes restart this morning so I’ll pick him up after that and drop him off there. My keep fit class is a lovely one,about 15 or so friendly women varying in age from 60+-80+ and all up for a laugh and a joke. We get together apart from our weekly class a couple of times a year the last time being a lunch followed by crazy golf in the autumn.

A pile of ironing unfortunately has my name on it for the afternoon. Hope whatever your plans are you find some relaxation and peace.

Good morning from North Yorkshire. It was raining when I got up but now there’s a clear blue sky. It’s very windy.
Off to my charity this morning to make the coffee and chat to the mums. Film Club in the village hall this evening. It’s West Side Story this time. In between I hope to have a walk. Yesterday was so wet I didn’t get out.
Good to hear your DSF hasn’t had another bleed Urms. My elderly neighbour had this problem last year, ended up in hospital for a few days but has been fine since.
Take care everyone and have a good day.

Morning all from West Oxfordshire. I need to get up. It is the monthly WI Coffee Social which I must be attend as I’m on the committee. It is always good fun. My brother in Australia was in touch last night. He and his partner have booked flights to come over here in April for my 70th. My sister has already booked her flights. Because of covid we haven’t been under the same roof since my niece’s wedding in December 2019. Have a good day everyone and Urms, I do hope the relevant people get their act together. It must be so disheartening.

Morning all

Dry and calm here, rain and wind forecast for later.

I have cooked the 7yr olds breakfast and made him a packed lunch, DH has just walked him to school (GS wants to walk on his own as we are next door but one to the local school, but school policy is that for early clubs an adult has to check them in)

Off to the gym this morning, must get my fitness levels up, every little helps (mind you I still ache in places I forgot I had after my personal training session Monday which I followed up with a Callanetics class)

Hopefully going to our local pub tonight as I really fancy fish and chips and honestly do not fancy the smell of cooking/eating it permeating the house #lazygran I am learning Urmstongran pleased your SF had another good night, it’s frustrating when the NHS is incapable of joining up the dots

Have a good day folks 🙋‍♀️🦩