Good Morning Wednesday 8th February 2023

Good morning Mick and all. Blue skies and sunshine here in coastal West Sussex but there is a cool breeze.

That quilt is stunning GM. I am trying to revamp a patchwork bedspread made by my late MiL back in the late 60s/early 70s - it is very ‘retro’. The backing has gone, so on the advice of ‘crafty’ friends it has been removed and I will stitch on an old but good condition cotton sheet. The patchwork needed washing so I put it in the washing machine on Monday and now have the job of picking off all the old thread from round the edge. A lot of frayed thread came off in the wash so I had to retrieve mounds of fluff from the washing machine and thought I had better be thorough and clean the filter too. Unfortunately I greatly underestimated the amount of water that would come out so my too small cloth was soaked and water flowed under the machine. Our machine is a freestanding one that replaced the built in one that was here when we moved in and it is a very tight fit. DH managed to drag it out for me to dry up the floor behind but couldn’t get it to slide back in. He eventually put it on his latest ‘toy’, a set of wheels to put under heavy items so that they can be rolled. The machine is now wedged at an angle and looks unusable to me. DH insists it is fine 😨

I feel for you Greyduster with your split bin bag. Why is nothing simple?

I am glad to hear Marydoll is making progress with the medication review, if not with domestic arrangements 🙂

I have tea and (homemade) cakes out this afternoon and library books to return and collect.

Have a good day.

We also support our local optician, urms. We try to support independents where ever we can.

Ours has state of the art everything too. Sadly, last time I went, there had been no change in my prescription and, therefore, no excuse for new specs and different frames.

Urmstongran

I’m lucky lulu our optometrist has state of the art technology with computer assisted photos of behind the eyes etc so she compares a new photo with the last one. She also has several displays of designer frames. That’s my downfall. I’ve always had champagne tastes and lager money. Perhaps if I steer myself away from the designer ranges I could find a pair I like as a compromise? I’d love a jazzy pair like Prue whatsit wears in Bake Off (not a programmes I watch as I never bake) but will have a Good Look 👀 at what’s available. I do appreciate I could just take my prescription up the road to Specsavers - thereby giving her half my business for the testing and get the lenses in new frames elsewhere. Or choose the frames from Specsavers and drop them in at the optician’s to have lenses fitted by them. Decisions, decisions.

Urmstongran... have a look at a website called IZIPIZI from Paris ...they have a range of coloured frames, very reasonably priced.. I've bought two and had them fitted with my prescription at my local Boots optician..

Good Morning all from bright and chilly Harrogate.
Your quilt is indeed beautiful GrandMattie. An opt icing I went to told me in no uncertain terms - they deal with eyes! My last few doses of conjunctivitis have proved to be blepharitis! Any ways of dealing with it, but professional advice best.
I'm disappointed for you Marydoll that you are not back to your chipper self!
Today we are taking the bus into Ripon so I can go round my favourite bargain shops (Home Bargains being one).
Have the best day possible folks!

Hello grandMattie, good morning, all from a frosty but beautifully sunny west Kent.
I have a feeling this conjunctivitis doing the rounds at the moment might be another complication of the pandemic. So many seem to be suffering very badly. Very common in schoolchildren, it now seems to be affecting many adults, and affecting them very badly. The go to remedy, chloramphenicol, hardly seems to touch the sides and some people (including a very good friend and also my son) needing oral antibiotics. No doubt it’ll be researched at some point!
I do hope your treatment works swiftly. It usually clears in two or three days, good luck.
And everyone else, have a day without too many trials and tribulations.

Good morning all from a welcome sunny day in Glasgow.

Our old flowering cherry will be pruned today, thank goodness it’s a dry day and I can potter about with a bit of tidying up around the beds. Snowdrops are out and Iris are beginning to show.
Such a beautiful quilt GM you are so talented.
Be careful Baubles. Please don’t go overdoing it, your health is more important than a job. Take a telling from me too. 😀

Best wishes to all for a good day.

Specsavers every time, Urms. They have a good range of relatively modestly priced designer style ones. I've got one in the supermarket I use, beyond "handy". I can't be weaned off my rimless specs as in hardly looks like you have specs but..

.impossible to see where you have put then down.

its a sunny S Yorks. Late last night I was unpacking a huge treadmill (not setting it up, someone comes) as it blocked the TV.

So its a dressing gown day today, nuff said. Let it be known I have combed my hair.

Bests for poorlies and appointments and family duties and outings.

I’m definitely over-thinking this! 🤣🤣
I’ll just make the porridge.

Happy birthday to Mrginny 🍺🎂
GM hope the ointment does the trick.

I’m lucky lulu our optometrist has state of the art technology with computer assisted photos of behind the eyes etc so she compares a new photo with the last one. She also has several displays of designer frames. That’s my downfall. I’ve always had champagne tastes and lager money. Perhaps if I steer myself away from the designer ranges I could find a pair I like as a compromise? I’d love a jazzy pair like Prue whatsit wears in Bake Off (not a programmes I watch as I never bake) but will have a Good Look 👀 at what’s available. I do appreciate I could just take my prescription up the road to Specsavers - thereby giving her half my business for the testing and get the lenses in new frames elsewhere. Or choose the frames from Specsavers and drop them in at the optician’s to have lenses fitted by them. Decisions, decisions.

Good morning everyone from the Angus coast, where there's supposed to be stormy weather brewing. Mind you as it's coming out of the west it probably won't reach here until later. I've put off taking my friend out until tomorrow after tai chi - a sunny day up country is always more therapeutic.
Sorry to hear about your conjunctivitis grandmattie and hope you manage to get some help from somewhere. Your quilt is beautiful and I'm sure Philip's girlfriend will treasure it.
Susan I'm on Denplan too - have been for 30 years. The best part of it (apart from no shocking one-off bills!) are the regular hygienist appointments which catch any problems before they escalate into something painful. Not that I enjoy the hygienist, but you know what I mean!
My great-niece's husband was on television from LA this week - guess who didn't see him! Serves me right for not watching the news any more - it's usually so depressing. But the family were quietly a-buzz!
I was reading a book the other day in a series by an author I like when in the first couple of pages the little village where DS2 lives began to feature. I immediately contacted DS to tell him - turns out the author lives there too. Truly I live in reflected glory 😄
No glory here though and life goes on in the same old way with nothing to report.
Have a good day everyone x

Been and come back! The presrcribing nurse gave me ointment, after thorough examination. - i have been using drops OTC for the last few days and they did bu....r all! Told to come back to see eye doctor there if it gets worse, to doctor if no better...

MD, I've used cold tea, the tannin helps me.

Good Morning Mick and everyone from Hull. We have another lovely day promised. 🌞

Happy birthday to your DH ginny🍰

What a gorgeous quilt grandMattie I’m sure it will be treasured forever.

Congratulations to your GD Gingster hard work has paid off.

I liked the card NannyJan it would be a perfect card for a friend up north.

We had GS last night and his latest thing is me throwing the space hopper as far as I can up the garden then we race to see who gets to it first. I must have done it 20 times in the dark as the outside lights only reach the end of the patio. So I’ll be at it tonight as he is here again. I really need to keep going to the gym to keep up so I’ll go later this morning.
DD text to say GD1 has chicken pox. Oh the joys!

Hoping you all have a lovely day. Thinking of our friends who are poorly and upset 🌻🌻

Good morning from a frosty, sunny W Kent. Out for a cup of tea this morning and then quiet rest of the day.
I agree about the independents Urms, ours has just gone after 50 years and we are now off to Boots with everybody else. The last time we went we realised they weren't offering all the modern tests and had become very expensive.
Love the quilt gM, I was looking at the quilting group at U3A but when I saw samples of their work it all looked very professional, as yours does. I hope you get your eyes sorted out.
Best wishes to all

Good morning from a bright breezy Co Armagh
Club shortly then trying to think of a card for a 16 yr old Grandson , no ideas are coming to me , the girls are so much easier !

Here’s Matt.

Good morning everyone from south Manchester where once again, we have a beautiful morning full of sunshine. I’ve just been messaging my sister and my Ladies Who Wine and apparently it’s lashing it down with rain and very windy too on the Costa del Sol. LWW got cancelled yesterday the weather was so bad! A very rare occurrence. They said I’m not missing anything as bad weather is set to continue till the end of the week.

I’ve got a routine appointment with the optician this afternoon. Two years since I last went apparently. That’s flown by. Mind you I do recall I wore a mask and so did the optometrist.

As I’ve always got my spex on because I need them for distance and reading - I have varifocal lenses for my prescription - I’d quite LIKE to choose different frames for a change of look. But I’m trying to cut back on my spending. Needs -v- wants. I ‘want’ new frames but do I ‘need’ them. No. I’ve gone to this independent optician round the corner for years. I like to support her. I know Specsavers is much cheaper. My friends think I’m mad. But am I? Use the independents or lose them we are told or our town centres will just be clones of one another with little individuality.

If I had loadsa money I wouldn’t bat an eyelid (see what I did there?) but I haven’t, so I have to tailor my wants. Hey ho.

Good morning Mick and everyone from bright and breezy Carlisle where it is 5C. A look at the TV weather map last night showed how blue with cold it was over southern England and western Europe.
I was tired all day yesterday after my bad nights' sleep and didn't perk up till the evening due to my caffeine intake I suppose.
I had a good night last night so on with some housework this morning.
Wasn't the news grim this morning, the earthquake death toll numbers rose by several thousand whilst I was listening and will be terrible by the time all that rubble has been cleared. We can only sit here, be upset and give money.

I'll just go and get on with things and wish all here the best possible day.

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders where it's 7° and windy
I hope for an easy day today. Yarn group and then some catching up on paperwork.

I seem to have booked 3 getaways this year! Very unusual for me. I must be learning from Mick!

You are quiltmaker supremo Mattie I envy your skills and time management.

If your back is too sore, you must rest it Baubles! None of us is indispensable. Someone else can do your shifts.

there's you telt

I hope everyone has a pleasant day including your birthday boy Ginny

Good morning from North Yorkshire. Another sunny day expected here.
Lovely quilt GM. My friend used to make them. Her daughter gave me one after she died. I have it on a bed in a north facing room, it would be shame for it to be hidden in case of fading.
Off to our local mini supermarket this morning to promote our charity which is going to be funded via their loyalty card. Lunch with my fellow volunteer then a cup of tea with my neighbour.
….and 10,000 steps….we’ll see.
Have a good day everyone.

As suggested by others GrandMattie, if you see a pharmacist or optician you will probably be given Chloramphenicol (infected eye drops). Much quicker than the minor injuries clinic.

Good morning Mick and all from Sunnyside northwest coast.
Enjoyed music club yesterday but their internet was dodgy which affected my backings. Ended up singing an unaccompanied folk song. I know I can attach my Bluetooth to my iPad without internet so will look into that.
More music today, another lunchtime concert in town but in tonight.
My cat climbs into my adjustable bed and in the night I heard her trying to get out, so lifted the electric bedhead. She’s so quiet in there, I forget she has climbed in when reading last thing at night.
So many people killed in the earthquake, hard to take in.
Beautiful bedspread grandMattie and I hope you get your conjunctivitis cleared up.
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Good Morning everyone. Very frosty on Severnside this morning.

That’s a lovely quilt Mattie.
Happy Birthday to Mrginny 🍺🎂

A few pottering jobs today and a meal from the slow cooker.

Best wishes to you all 🌼❄️❄️

Congratulations to your granddaughter Gingster. All that hard work has paid off.

harri, how worrying for you all. I can't stop thinking of those poor people in Turkey and have wept for them.

GG, that really made me laugh!

GB, poor wee DGS, DS1 was the same. It wasn't easy dealing with it.

Good morning from the south coast where we have a heavy frost today. Pretty to look at in the garden but very cold. Exercise class for me today and not sure what else. A few parcels to send and maybe some decorating again later.

A beautiful quilt Grandmattie, I love the colours and you are very talented.

A happy day to all.