Good Morning Friday 12th May 2023

Good morning from Bristol. It is overcast, promises to be dry.
My towels dried in just over two hours in the sun, yesterday.
Today, I’ve been invited to coffee by my upstairs neighbour. Then, DD is coming over to lunch.
And, finally, finally, I hope the fridge freezer saga will be over. There were two aborted collections of the damaged one on Saturday and Wednesday… 🤞🤞🤞
I hope gbatty, Ash, Marydoll and everyone else needing hugs get them.
Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩❤️

Good morning from the South Downs. Looks dull out there. Zero rain yesterday again.

Spent the day in the garden yesterday and finished my bees and butterflies bed all weeded, fed and tied back. Today I will cut back the Montana and start on the little woodland bed, which is a bit too much of a jungle! Have a log pile for the insects which gradually over the years rots down so I add to it. The idea was to attract beetles particularly stage beetles, but I’ve never seen one so don’t know if it works or not.

Dental checkup at noon, which is inconvenient - but must be done.

Rack of lamb for dinner

Enjoy today one and all

Good morning all from a washed out North Yorkshire. Lots of flash floods yesterday and even hailstones. Our road turned into a river. Luckily most properties are set back and raised a bit from the road but it was a deluge. Some of my little seedlings have been fatally damaged. I was out of the house most of the day as it was day two of our new flooring being laid. Sounds like what you’re having done Cornergran. Was supposed to be finished today but for several reasons won’t be unitll Monday now so no cooker or washing machine in place still. Thank goodness for the air fryer. It will be fish and chips from Scarborough this evening though. Wishing everyone the best day possible.

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Good morning from a dry but cloudy Black Country.

Arrived home from The Algarve late yesterday afternoon. Such a lovely sunny and relaxed holiday. Sitting having breakfast outside at 8am yesterday! Home to a cloudy and slightly chilly UK.

Sorting out washing etc today, and hopefully gym this afternoon.

Wishing you all a lovely day

Good morning from a fine but chilly start to the day here in La Sarthe.

I hope you enjoy the coffee date, grandMattie. Thank you for the hugs - much needed here where we are both coughing for France, England and the rest of Europe! At least neither can blame the other one for lack of sleep!

The rain in Yorkshire sounds dramatic, Abitbarmy! You deserve those fish and chips! In contrast, Whitewavemark2 has whole days in her garden. Lovely!

Happy weekend, whatever betides! 😀🥰🦩💐🦩

Welcome home, NannyJan53; lovely photos! 😎

Good morning from a hospital bed in Cornwall from which I can't see the weather! I'm here till I can get an angiogram and treatment which may be a two week wait but my consultant doesn't want me to go home till then. The food is amazing, the staff great fun and yesterday my own doctor rang to see how I was. So I'm pretty much delighted!

Good morning, s somerset might be sunny and dry today, outside exercise this morning

I realised today that I am often doing the same cycle route, hills, countryside and not too much on the faster roads. Thatched cottages, mill stream, cow-scent. Then I thought so what, it is safe, has a gradient that makes me work, is very pretty and takes one hour.

I put down some beetroot seeds yesterday plus more carrot seed and sowed courgettes into pots. I am seriously thinking about putting raspberries into my raised beds instead this autumn. It is hard to let go from growing veg after being pretty well self-sufficient for so long

A good day to everyone

Good morning all from the Black country. We had your weather Abitbarmy think you probably missed it NannyJan welcome back lovely photos would the one with the green building be Lagos?.
DH has a birthday today we have a meal booked with the family for later no other plans.
Enjoy your Friday everyone and may you all find some ☀️.

Good morning from a cloudy North Leicestershire.

We are up early this morning as I have to be in Leicester by 9.30 (looking presentable!) and DH has an ECG at the GP's surgery.

Have the best day possible everyone.

Mizuna have just read you are in hospital, I do hope they can get your treatment soon although it seems you are being well looked after💐

Off in an hour to get a coach to Gloucester where there is a major flower festival in the Cathedral. The local flower group is lovely so I expect an enjoyable but tiring day and will take the chance to have little sit downs if I need to.

Best wishes to you Mizuna hope all goes well

Yes monk we were in Lagos, you have obviously been there! Then Faro for a couple of days. Happy birthday to MrMonk

Thank you Ashcome it was a lovely break

NannyJan we usually stay in Alvor but always take a trip to Lagos last time we went there by speedboat.

Good morning Mick and all from the Scottish Borders. Foggy start. I hope it clears.
My French Helpers have worked so hard. My 40yr old greenhouse sparkles like new and the veg plot is ready for sowing and planting.
They will be tourists in Edinburgh today while I do my shift in the shop, visit DMiL and I have a dinner date with my badminton partners this evening.

This is sounding more promising gMattie you will settle in but it must feel a bit like being the new girl at school!!. How many neighbours do you have?

I hope you both stop coughing soon Ash
All the best to you Mizuna .

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning from a grey skied Colchester. Yesterday it was sunny one minute and biblical torrents the next. I managed a couple of hours mooching the shops and got home before the worst of it. I need to go back today to return a too small pair of trousers (oh for consistent sizing) and buy a fabulous summer dress in the other colour while they've still got some. Luckily it's only a short walk to our High Street so I hope to dodge today's forecast showers.
Love to all 🦩 x

Good morning, it’s a damp and grey Wiltshire morning here. I really enjoyed yesterday’s sunshine, it was so nice to sit outside in the sunshine knitting and listening to a podcast.
Five packages of plants arrived yesterday, I have potted up the aquilegias, French beans, agapanthus and salvias and will do the rest this morning. Three loads of washing dried nicely too so a really satisfying day.
Today I will finish the potting up and then start on the front borders that need weeding and thinning out - there are Nigella everywhere and the daffodils and tulips need tidying.
Plenty to keep me busy!
Have a lovely day x

Good morning all and it’s grey here in Essex. Lots of downpours and then sunshine yesterday.

Today we’ll meet our old pals at the usual pub for lunch. We haven’t seen them for a few weeks so it will be nice to catch up.

Mizuna sorry to hear you’re in hospital, but they are certainly looking after you. 💐

Ash poor you and olddudders - still coughing! 💐

Wishing you all a ‘good’ day.🌸

Good morning all from Anstruther, where we have sea haar.
Yesterday was glorious and my face is stinging this morning, due to the sun and bracing sea air.
I had the most amazing lunch of seafood, just caught in Pittenweem, where we had been.
Unfortunately, I over did things, came back and slept for two hours, because I felt unwell and my heart rate which I kept to myself was rather high!
Later, I had the best night's sleep in the last year.

I am sad to hear you are in hospital, Mizuna. Glad to hear the food is amazing, always found it awful, but sorry to hear you have to wait so long for an echogram. In January, I had all my scans within less than a day of being admitted.
I hope your consultant can get to the bottom of things.

The previous day, my garden furniture had been delivered by only one man, so he had left it at the side of the house, because he couldn't get it through the gate. This didn't bother us.
Yesterday my phone alerted me to the fact that someone was in our back garden, I was quite anxious, when I could hear men's voices on the recording.
It turned out that the nursery had sent two men to move it and place it in situ. Now that's excellent service!

We are off home this morning, DD is hassling me to strip the bed etc, because we must be out for 10am. It takes me ages to come too and take all my meds, so I am biting my tongue!
We will have breakfast at the harbour in the mist, then head home.

Have a good day folks. We will stop off at Elie, to visit an amazing boutique ( I have been saving all year and have been a good girl, spending wise), pick up some prescriptions, then the pharmacy, before going home.

I hope you all have a good day.
My pal Kalu has been absent, I have been missing her posts.💐 Also thinking of Susan and GMBatty.

Have a good day folks.

Morning all

Another day of sun and shower expected. I seem to have another busy one, no time for the gym.

Mizuna I wish you a speedy recovery x

Ashcombe I hope you and DH are better soon along with any other poorly folk

A wave to friends who are not currently posting 👋

Have a great day folks 🙋‍♀️🦩

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 9° and cloudy or it could be the East Coast Haar trundling in. Mizuna I'm sorry to hear that you are poorly. I hope you can get treated quickly. Ash I'm also sorry to hear that you and your DH are still so unwell. Grandmattie a sociable day for you. Welcome home NannyJan . The photos are lovely. Monk I had some really nice holidays in Alvor.
Yesterday was busy but in a nice way. I went to my art class in the morning and had a lovely absorbing time sketching out my new big piece. Then I played with colours for it. After that, I visited mum which wasn't as great as she was cantankerous and confused at times. What gave me the chills was the nurse making plans for her discharge home. I've made my feelings clear that it would be unsafe so I can do no more at this stage. After that, I visited a friend for coffee and cake and a rant.
Today I'll do some food shopping at Aldi as I'm short of much. Then visit mum and see what's going on. Still no doctors appointment so I have to push for that when my head is all over the place. Oh well, qué sera, sera. Have a good day all

Good morning Mick and all from Sunnyside northwest coast.
Had my covid jab yesterday and have felt weird ever since, but ok, just tired.

Off to art soon but will come back and probably sleep…
The past few days have been trying Myotape mouth tape to see if it helps my snoring. I wake up exhausted rather than refreshed. We’ll see.

Sorry you are in hospital Mizuna💐, coughing is so tiring Ashcombe also thinking of Susan and Kalu.

Mizuna

Good morning from a hospital bed in Cornwall from which I can't see the weather! I'm here till I can get an angiogram and treatment which may be a two week wait but my consultant doesn't want me to go home till then. The food is amazing, the staff great fun and yesterday my own doctor rang to see how I was. So I'm pretty much delighted!

Get well soon. Relax and enjoy

Good morning everyone from Inverness where it’s dry with light grey cloud - hopefully we’ll see some sun later as yesterday we had the haar all day and it was really damp and grey
Lovely holiday photos nannyJan thanks for sharing
Today I’m off to the gym but nothing else planned, will see how the day goes
Sorry to hear you’re in hospital Mizuna hope things are ok and you get your treatment soon
Grandmabatty tough times, sending hugs
Hoping everyone finds something to enjoy today and take care all whatever the day brings 💐