Good Morning Sunday 3rd September 2023

Good morning from Bristol. We are promised sun/warmth today. Would be so nice after this dreary summer.
I finally gave up my patchwork square. Everything was the wrong mismatching size, so I ditched everything again and shan’t be ambitious for some time.
While I was at the church coffee yesterday, my phone went. To my surprise, it was one of the residents. She was trying to call her son in Australia on WhatsApp! Neither of us knew how she got to me nor how to get out of it. We had a hilarious few minutes of muttering to ourselves, overheard by the other, pressing every button in sight until, by magic, we somehow managed to end our call. It was very funny.
Today, after church, I have a meeting with a parishioner to organise a “bring and share” Harvest lunch on 1st October. I offered help, and found myself one of the organisers.
I hope all the travellers keep safe and those in need get some comfort. Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩

Good morning from a warm and dry Sarthe.

Yesterday afternoon the temperature exceeded 30 degrees, making the coolth afforded by the thick-walled house very welcome! We enjoyed breakfast and dinner outside but inevitably the mosquitoes have found me, with one bite causing a swollen area of two inches across. An ice pack and antihistamine cream have soothed. A minor discomfort compared with what many others here suffer.

I hope you had a wonderful day for the wedding yesterday, Sago. What a beautiful setting!

I had to smile at your neighbour’s WhatsApp mishap, grandMattie! But isn’t it wonderful that the Internet can be used to make overseas call that would have cost a fortune in the past, using traditional methods of communication?

Thinking of those with sad anniversaries at this time. A blessed Sunday to all. 🦩💐✝️😎🦩

I agree, Ash, with the freedom of calling overseas for nothing. I remember, in the early 1970s, when I first came to England, calls had to be booked and cost at least £1/minute, the quality was usually atrocious. This was at a time when my net salary was some £90 per month. As you can imagine, I didn’t call my parents in Mauritius very often.

Good morning , heat and sun are coming to s somerset

Back to normal today and the M5 was a complete nightmare coming home but I am home and that is the main thing. Not too much on my plate today, just finishing off pre-washing a few new fabrics and hopefully I can muster enthusiasm for a bit of exercise, either early or late today

Have a good day

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 14° and cloudy. Ash mosquitoes are the down side of warmer climes, I suppose. I hope your bite subsides quickly. GrandMattie what a strange thing to happen!
Yesterday was such a lovely day. Washings and housework done and dgs2 entertained for an hour or so. Dgs1 did well at his swimming lesson and really enjoyed it. I visited mum at night and we had a nice chat. It was sad to see one old lady who was desperate to get out. She obviously has a type of dementia and was very angry at being locked in against her will and asked me to let her out. Poor soul.
Today will be a quiet day because I have a busy week ahead. I'll do a small ironing and make lentil soup in the slow cooker. Then tackle my painting. I keep saying that and don't do it! Roast chicken for dinner. Have a good day all

Good morning from a dry Cornwall with some blue sky and sun coming, hopefully not too hot. Yesterday I showed my seven-year-old granddaughter how to use my sewing machine and in no time at all she had made a lavender pouch (pic attached). She's a very careful, thoughtful child and learnt the machine's ways very quickly. It was delightful to watch.

Today I'm off to church at 4pm. Someone has apparently hung Day One of my creation paintings so I'd best check it out. The other five are still in my workroom. Will take a bus to the seafront before that.

The mozzies absolutely love me too Ash!

Morning all from West Oxfordshire. Elder son and his family are here. After an early lunch we are going fruit picking! Raspberries and plums I think. I have a batch of chicken stock to make, which I’ll put on first thing. I don’t know anyone else who uses chicken carcasses to make their own stock.
Have a good Sunday.

Good morning everyone there’s the promise of a warm and sunny day here on the east coast of Fife,
I’m off to church today it’s a voting day to see if my church will link with another close by.
Have a good day my friends

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Ah, now it's there twice!

Ladyleftfieldlover I make my own chicken stock. I have done for years.

Good morning all from a brightening North Leicestershire.

I also make stock from chicken carcases.

We are off to the nearest Lakeland shop today - apparently there is a sale! We are treating ourselves to new knives.

Good morning from Shropshire.

Yesterday was sunny and very warm by the afternoon.We are promised the same for most of this week.

We had a lovely day yesterday.While DGD was at sewing club DH, H and I went to our favourite vegan cafe.H loves it as he can choose anything off the menu as there is no dairy or egg obviously.After sewing club we all wandered round the shops, bought a picnic lunch which we ate in the park and then the children did arts and crafts at a stall in the square.DD made a meal for us in the evening when we dropped the children off.

Love the lavender pouch Mizuna.

Today is laundry and getting things together for our trip to Scotland later this month.

Thoughts with Taichinan, GrannySomerset and Georgesgran💐

Hope you all had a lovely day yesterday Sago.

Have the best day you can everyone🌺🦩

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Good morning, Michael and all GNs from the Yorkshire coast. We are off home today after a final mooch around. Yesterday the menfolk went coasteering and DD and I went for a walk up the coast path. I had factored in some steps, but not the long steep brutal climb into North Landing, which finished me off. Worse still, having got up, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to come down again so we found a different gentler way to come back and lived to fight another day. Spectacular scenery. The sea looked calm and very inviting. GS assured me it wasn’t as calm as all that where they were!
LLFL, I’m another who makes chicken stock from the carcass.
Have the best day you can folks.

Good morning from a sunny and warm South Downs.

Family get together today at our house to celebrate my eldest grandsons 23rd birthday. Only 8 to eat which is better than usual. Other family members are on holiday etc. doing a couple of roast chickens and stuffing a La Delia with pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce etc. grandsons girlfriend is making an ice cream birthday cake. She made my son a highland cow cake for his 50th a couple of weeks ago and it was marvellous.

Set to be a good week so I will enjoy every minute - winter is so long. - although autumn is a magical season.

Everyone seems in fine fettle which is good to read

Peace and harmony to all

Grandmabatty

Ladyleftfieldlover I make my own chicken stock. I have done for years.

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Morning Mick, morning All. A clear sky over our corner of Somerset with warm sunshine forecast.

The ECG confirmed the tentative atrial fibrillation diagnosis for Mr C, we were seen by a very reassuring GP who discussed treatment which has begun. Can’t fault our huge GP practice, very fortunate to have the care available on a Saturday. For once I didn’t grumble about the need to travel to the most distant surgery.

Quiet day ahead for us. I’ve a book to finish, Mr C will no doubt return to his jigsaw, if he feels like it we’ll walk from seat to seat around the development no doubt finding folk to chat to.

Another mozzie-magnet here, ash, hope the irritation subsides today. You were brave tackling the M5 yesterday, karma, we drove over it and could see miles of virtually stationary traffic. Hope you get to your painting grandmab, good to have time for yourself. Your phone experience made me chuckle grandmattie, it is wonderful to be able to make those calls though.

Hope there is some lightness for us all today.

llf guess what I’m going to do with my chicken carcasses😄😄 I bet you wish you hadn’t written that now.

Also very weirdly, we are intending to go to a pick your own next week to pick guess what!! Raspberries and plums - but also to see what else they have - early squashes?

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llf guess what I’m going to do with my chicken carcasses😄😄 I bet you wish you hadn’t written that now.

Also very weirdly, we are intending to go to a pick your own next week to pick guess what!! Raspberries and plums - but also to see what else they have - early squashes?

I’d better go and lie down in a dark room!

I'm glad to see Mr C has begun treatment Cornergran.

Good morning everyone from Inverness where another lovely warm day is forecast
Gorgeous pictures greyduster well done with the walking
Looking forward to our regular Sunday video call with DS this morning, after that I’ll be happy pottering in and out of the garden. It’s my happy place and there’s always lots to keep me busy.
Enjoy your family celebrations today WWM a very Happy Birthday to your DGS 🎂🎉
Thinking of everyone with worries and struggles, hope today is gentle and take care all whatever the day brings 💐

Morning from high cloud in S Hants, 16 and a heavy dew. How bizarre gMattie, entertaining though!
Lovely pictures Greyduster thank you.
Hoping the wedding day was glorious Sago and all went smoothly.
More tomatoes to pick later, a walk then meat draw in the local. As the forecast is so good this week I’ve booked dinner on the beach for us one evening, I’m looking forward to it.
Gammon in the slow cooker tonight (that stock will be saved too llfl, another 🐥 stock maker here).
May small pleasures brighten your Sunday 🦩🦩

Good morning everyone from south Manchester where we have another sunny start to our day 😎
Here’s Matt, ridiculously funny as always!

Good morning from misty Foxyland where as soon as the mist burns off, it will be very sunny.
Yesterdays trip to Norfolk was lovely if tiring ( 2 1/2 hours each way) but the hound coped well. She loved the freedom of the huge walled garden in the grounds of the old rectory where D and SIL have their bungalow, it was the only safe place to let her off as the gardens are not dog proof and the rabbits would have had her disappearing over the horizon. So the hound contented herself by making straight for the fishpond and falling in - several times before she got the hang of drinking the slimy weed filled water without total immersion. SIL is fortunately both a dog person and a patient man and fished her out with D supporting the back end . TG she is short haired and it was warm and sunny , drying off for the use of! She then decided to roll on a mole hill and finally to try to dig out some the rabbit burrows in the shrubbery round the walls.
We were both zorsted by last night and the hound will probably be glad of a quiet day at home while I go to Les Troyens at the Proms, meeting my sisters in law for lunch in S Ken first.
Wishing you all a pleasant day , with kind thoughts to all those with illness or worries to cope with.
(PS I always boil up my chicken bones for stock, sometimes even making it with “cheap ish “ chicken wings. I also bet you wish you hadn’t said that! )