Good Morning Friday 17th March 2023

Dear Mick,
I wish you all good luck and that all goes to plan for your operation. Enjoy your favourite food tonight and best wishes

Borrheid55

Marydoll that was in reply to your post!

He never looks at his phone!
We have Alexa in all the rooms, so that I can call foŕ help. The only room without Alexa, is of course DH's study!
He is a lost cause.

Marydoll that was in reply to your post!

We have an arrangement when I am upstairs and don’t want to venture downstairs again ( due to ongoing balance problem!) I send him an emoji. So far , it’s been a spider, drink, or 😢!

I love Otley market Gwen . I do love your part of the world having lived there so long!

Good luck

Somehow or other I managed to press “report” on hollysteers post !!! This was totally an accident and am so sorry. I don’t know how to undo this.

Good morning Mick and all from Sunnyside northwest coast.
Nice trip to Ulverston and Cartmel yesterday although the weather wasn’t good. I visited the Laurel and Hardy museum in Ulverston, Stan Laurel’s birthplace and the film running reminded me how I loved watching their films with the DC when they were little. Happy days.
Cartmel was lovely and has some very interesting individual shops.
So tired today after cramp in the night and the singing the night before before the early start day trip have tired me. Such a nuisance not to have the stamina I used to have…
Thinking of you and your daughter Gingster💕, hope your day works out well GM and thoughts to anyone with worries on St.Patrick’s Day.

Good morning Auntyflo and all x

Welcome nanadana don’t live far away from you. Lovely weather here in north east where I’m off today. Was supposed to be having my myringoplasty op today but has been postponed. So I’m going out for lunch with my sister as a treat. Op will get sorted again. Have a great day all rare day off work fair me.

Good morning from a half and half Co Armagh, sun and showers
The birds were chattering around the place I put out some oats , I scattered some for them but not a bird can I see ,
I’m home alone , neighbours ( DD+ SIL) are away , other son is off to a match and my Sister is in Bristol to go to a gig where The Answer are playing . So I’m slobbing here in PJs
Off to prayers on line for St Patrick’s day , thinking of stressed and poorly

Good morning all from bright Harrogate.
Yes Mick take care, it would be a shame to miss this op because you have an infection!
Have you got a ‘move date’ yet *GrandMattie?
Your DD is lucky she has you for support Gingster
I’ve been reading the ‘woke’ nonsense that Oxfam wants its staff to use. I am no longer a deaf woman (no I haven’t been cured) I am a person with hearing impairment!
Yesterday was taken up by someone trying to persuade us our door needs changing, no they don’t replace handles just the door! Hmm. That makes it an expensive door handle!
Today we are taking the bus to Otley where it is one of its market days
Have the best day possible folks

Good morning all from a brighter and dry day in Glasgow.

I will be collecting GDs from school which will be the last time I collect both girls as GD1 will be leaving soon. The end of another era. DD1 will join us later for dinner.
Happy St Patrick’s day to all our Irish grans.

Have the best day possible all.

Good morning everyone. It’s a mild 10°C in my corner of Lancashire and the sun is peeking through the clouds. Today will be catching up with the house work and physio exercises. I have promised MrB a slow cooker curry for dinner tonight. I love hot spicy food but can’t eat it too often. Have a good day all 🦩🦩

Good morning from a wet and dreary day in Essex by the sea.
DH has gone to have his hair cut and then to his boat to do who knows what.
I hope your daughter feels better soon Gingster, a day spent with Mum will do her good.
Taichinan, one of our neighbours is Ukranian, his parents still live there and his brother has been called up to fight. I can see the sadness in his face and feel very sorry for him.
Here's hoping that Friday is a good day for all xx

Good morning Mick and all. Today I shall post first and read later as I have spent the past hour trying to sort out when we can do tai chi on the beach this year ...... it's a long story! Anyway the washing is waiting to be hung out now and the dentist is also waiting for me this morning so not long to spend on here.
Tai chi yesterday was its usual lovely self and then I went straight from there to my hairdresser (an hour's drive away) followed by coffee and a sticky bun with my niece and great-niece. A lovely day. While I was with them I was introduced to a young Ukrainian mum who, along with her two children, has been given a home with some local people. You hear all the stories of course, but to actually speak with someone who is suffering through this wicked war brings it truly home. There was such a sadness and a loneliness coming off her - her family is out there, and her husband is there fighting. I think it was mumofbadboys on here who took in a family of four? I realise now just what a wonderful thing she and her husband did - I thought so at the time and now I feel I know.
Now, the washing line beckons - though I fear there's little drouth as it's overcast and the water is like a millpond today. Actually, it's forecast to rise to the giddy heights of 11° later!
Have a good day everybody x

A late good morning, Michael and all GNs. Wyllow has given you our weather here in South Yorkshire - hoping it might brighten up a bit as we go on. I sat in with a poetry group at the library yesterday, just to see if it might be something I would like to do, and I enjoyed it. They are a very inclusive, welcoming group (much relief) and very far from stuffy. I think I shall go again. It’s time for me to up my game and find new things to do on my own after being a part of “team Duster” for so long. Today is a domestics day.
Enjoy whatever you’re doing today, folks. May you have sunshine.

Good morning Mick and everyone from sunny Carlisle.

Finally I'm here, couldn't post this morning until I'd logged in and then got told my password was wrong. It wasn't but I had to change it. I nearly gave up so as to get on with other stuff....

I had a quietish day yesterday, still a tad under the weather with what feels like an inflamed stomach which is still evident this morning. Trying to ignore it today and get on with things.
I shall do the ironing and then maybe a bit of gentle pottering in the garden.

I hope your DD soon takes a turn for the better Gingster, it all sounds very unpleasant for her.

And I hope your day goes as planned grandMattie.

Wishing you all a good day.

Good to see you wanting to be out and about again Multicolourswapshop.
Don’t do the ironing Lulu I used to hate it when my mum did mine.

Good morning from West York's is a very bright day .I have washer going ,hairdresser coming this morning .Oh going for his hearing aids adjusting ,then it's shopping ready for family coming tomorrow for a get together for my birthday tomorrow. Happy St Patrick's day.🍀

Good morning from a bright, sunny Durham. DD2 is taking me up the beautiful Northumberland coast for an early Mother’s Day lunch in a restaurant recommended by the Hairy Bikers. I really need to up my game, as I’m still feeling in the doldrums - so unlike me.
Sorry to hear of so many family members unwell - sometimes we wish we could swap places.
Mick please heed Marydoll’s advice - you are so close now.
Best wishes to all. X

Good morning from a rainy W Kent. Off to a U3A meeting with DH this morning and then a quick shop before going to DDs to cover GS5 coming home early. I have had strict instructions from DD not to do any ironing and just relax but I can't sit around for 3 hours or I will seize up so the ironing fits in nicely.
Gingster best wishes to your DD.
gM fingers crossed everything goes to plan.
Best wishes to all

Good morning everyone from a brightening Algarve where it’s 13°.
It should be fine today which I’m very glad of as we have the whole family coming out for a weekend of celebrating our 80th birthdays. DH’s was yesterday and mine is next week.

I’ve mixed feelings about it all, delighted to see them of course but not really sure about the meal organised for twenty people tonight. Then we’ll have an open house afternoon tomorrow.

The organisation was a complete surprise to us and we’ve been firmly told that we don’t have to do a thing but the best laid plans and all that ……..
At least DD1 has agreed that organising something in Portugal is completely different to organising something in England! 😁

I’ll check on arrival times again in a minute, from experience it changes frequently, and then get going to fit getting my hair done while they settle in.
Hopefully I can catch up with all your posts later.

Good Morning Mick and everyone from Hull. A lovely mild day is forecast I think.

grandMattie hope your day isn’t too stressful and you get chance to put your feet up.

Gingster sorry your DD is feeling so poorly it’s so good she has you for support💐

Susan I miss doing my daughters hair she was a dancer so I created all sorts of styles in her hair. GDs hair is down her back now and I’m always asking if I can braid it. She always says no.

I’m getting my hair done roots and highlights later and have no childcare so I can chill this afternoon. Tonight there is a festival in Hull called the Awakening it’s an illuminations festival in the old town so we will have a look to that. Later this evening we will walk to the casino for a meal.

Have a lovely day everyone. Thoughts to those struggling with stress and illness 🌻🌻