Good Morning Thursday 12th October 2023

Good morning Michael and all GNs from a chilly South Yorkshire where the sun has promised to visit us. Yesterday was very wet. I made a batch of brownies when I came back from the library. I am supposed to be going out with the walking group this morning, but to be honest, I really don’t feel like it. First I must put some petrol in the car or I won’t be going anywhere.
Have the best day you can, folks.

Good morning from cooler and slightly frosty Sefton.
Today we’re going to a local market town, past a favourite garden centre, down lanes familiar to us when first married.
Thinking of Georgesgran (hope it went well), WWM2, Urms, Ginny, anyone I’ve failed to name, plus those for whom life is posing some concerns.
🌻

All the best, ww.

Good morning all from a cloudy North Leicestershire.

Today, I am putting everything back in the kitchen as, apart from the window seat cushions, it is finished!!!! I have an awful suspicion that we have picked the wrong colour for the walls but we will live with it for a while and, hopefully, we will stop noticing!!

Hoping all goes well today, WWM2 and sending love to everyone with sorrow and troubles.

Good morning all from N Bucks ☔️☔️☔️☔️☔️☔️☔️
My aches from Monday night have abated and I feel more lke myself again. Arts Society this morning where we are combining our regular monthly lecture with a coffee morning in aid of our local hospice. We get 100+ to meetings so unless they are tight-fisted it should raise a fair sum.
Yesterdays film group (a group of -now- friends who started meeting on Zoom in the pandemic) has a few new members Three of them have now “complained” about the format, the choice of films and suggested we use some university of Toronto Guide to Film Analysis as a basis for future discussion.
Hmm, I leave you to guess what the reaction is likely to be, I know what mine was
Oh dear the rain is getting even heavier and I can hear the poor binmen outside - what a miserable job it must be in bad weather 👏👏
I hope WWM’s gall bladder op goes well, that Marydoll is improving, that Covid jab sufferers feel better soon (and indeed Covid sufferers) and that you all have as pleasant a day as possible.

Good morning Mick and all. What a beautiful sunrise here on the Angus coast - all peachy pink clouds in a cerulean blue sky. In the good old days we'd have said "Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning" but I don't know if that applies in these days of global warming.
Hope all goes well with your procedure this afternoon Whitewave.
I had a lovely drive to Dundee and then across the bridge yesterday. It's the school holidays here and I think just about everybody must be away on holiday, the roads were so clear. And I didn't come across my first road works until just outside the hairdresser's! The haircut was followed by a lovely chatty lunch with my niece and my six yo great-great niece.
Today is the usual Thursday tai chi and then visit to the fish shop. I didn't sleep well last night, so I expect the afternoon will be spent dozing while reading a book and watching tv
I hope everyone has a good day and those who are unwell has a better day today. Take care x

Good morning from a very wet Essex. A shock as the last few weeks have been glorious.

Our journey back yesterday was good and we were ‘home’ by midday. We left the cottage and garden in ‘apple-pie’ order, as we’re not sure when we’ll be there next. Hopefully our steps down to the beach will be finished and the next big job is the fencing.

Today I have my bowls club and then I’ll shop .

Dh was going to use our new weed burner but it will be too wet out there. Has anyone got one? No instructions for use! 😤.

DS1’s blisters /burns (from cutting back our fig tree) are getting worse. He has cream , dressings and antiobiotics. So sore. 😥.

I hope you all have a ‘good’ day whatever it brings.🌻

Morning from the edge of South Lanarkshire where I stayed last night with DD4. She has a very demanding job and it’s ages since we had a cosy evening, just the two of us. My son in law very kindly left us to it.

Hope and am sure all will go well Whitewave, it will be good to get it over though.

cornergran, me too with the reaction to the flu jab, first ever to any of the jabs, I was really really tired for two days. I knew it must have been the flu jab because I’d had the Pfizer one before with no ill effect.

I’ve been thinking about the young boy you talked about Aggie he and his family are in my prayers.

I’m heading off soon to have my wild hair chopped before going away with friends for a weekend in the Lake District, staying with another friend who is a wonderful cook, grows her own food, bakes her own bread etc, it will be such a treat.
We have all been friends for nearly sixty years and I do feel blessed.

Wishing everyone as good a day as possible, of course all who need support are in my thoughts.

All best wishes for today WWM

Good morning all from a foggy Glasgow, where it is only 2C!!! I woke up really cold during the night.
Mick, I hope you have a better day and your op goes well WWM.

Yesterday, I had a phone consultation with one of the more experienced GPs. She took the time to listen to me, which I really appreciated. I explained that all I wanted was for someone to help me, I can't go on feeling awful and being incarcerated for weeks at a time. There is a limit to being upbeat, even for me!
The GP explained that the cardiology professor had contacted the surgery to say that he had reviewed my scans and recent bloods and couldn't see any signs that my heart was struggling any more than it usually does, therefore there seems to be something else going on for me to feel so unwell. 😔

Consequently, I am off to the surgery this morning for a raft of blood tests, to try and get the bottom of things and I will have a GP face to face consultation on Monday.
Poor DH will have to miss the golf, because I'm too dizzy to drive.
I feel so guilty, because he is having to do everything, shopping, housework etc and now he cannot even have a break from me. 😔

Dollie paid a surprise visit after school yesterday, which lifted my spirits no end.
She proceeded to ask me to test her on her French colours and impressed me greatly by getting them all correct. She is only seven years old!
I was chuffed to bits, because I wrote the French programme for the cluster primary schools and it is still going strong, ten years later. Recently I saw an electronic whiteboard display and realised it was one of my lessons! My legacy lives on, even if I am forgotten,🤣

DD has been unwell all week and phoned last night in tears to say that after a week of testing, she had just tested positive for Covid. The problem is that she must have been infectious when she visited on Sunday and is worried she may have infected me. I tested last night and today and thankfully it's negative. I don't fancy a trip to hospital for an anti viral infusion on top of everything else.
She had a social event with colleagues from South Africa on Friday and one was complaining of being unwell. She thinks that is how she caught Covid.
Its all very well advising that people should go about their business regardless, but it could be fatal for people like myself.
Its very difficult to find a balance.

So lovely to see my pal NanKate posting once more.
Blossoming and Susan, I hope you are feeling better. As always best wishes for all the poorlies.
Have a good day folks.

Good morning everyone from a grey and wet Northampton. Will be the same all day, according to Alexa.

Enjoyed the film (The Great Escaper) yesterday, very moving, both lead actors brilliant ( in their 80/90s). Managed to avoid the rain until I got off the bus at the corner of my Close, had a 2 minute dash to my door, and then had to put the bins out.

Sainsbury's delivery this morning, then dance classes after lunch. Macaroni cheese for dinner tonight, but the cheat's version with a chilled ready made sauce- I will put plenty of grated cheese on top though, and add seasoning to the sauce! Will make portions in individual dishes so I have one to freeze.

Wishing WW all the best.

Good luck to you, Whitewavemark2! Will be thinking of you. 💐

Good morning, cold toes here in the midlands. Not quite time for digging out the woollies but wont be long! Wishing you all the best for today Whitewave, take care everyone. Stay cosy x

Good morning everyone from south Manchester where it’s sunny and so drying out all the rain we had last night. I think I’ll get a takeaway coffee later and have a walk in the park.

Here’s Matt.
x

Oh! Thank you soooo much everyone

I appreciate everyone’s kindness.

Just going to tramp out with the dog then come home and stand in the shower with my hibiscrub😄😄😄

Good morning Mick and everyone from Carlisle where the sky is clear and the temperature 4C.

I hope it's a better day for you Mick, it's not being a smooth road to full health for you, I guess that's normal.

I was like you yesterday cornergran, we must have had our flu jabs on the same day. I'd whizzed through some kitchen cleaning when I was struck by a sudden pale and wobbly spell...the rest of the day being spent mostly in my armchair. I've never had any reaction whatsoever before. Still a bit weak-kneed today but I'm going to start in on the ironing shortly.
If that goes well, I want to wash my filthy car before potentially frosty weather means I'll be turning the outside tap off for the winter.

Best wishes, Wwm, I hope all goes well.

Have the best possible day all of you.

Good morning from a very grey and damp Essex coast.

I managed to get two lots of holiday washing done yesterday but it is not drying as quickly as I would like due to the damp weather. Third lot in the machine as I type.

DH has an appointment first thing then we are going food shopping. The cupboards look a little bare.

I hope all goes well for you today Wwm.

Thinking of all with worries or troubles. I hope you can find something to brighten your day. xxx

We had our flu jabs Monday afternoon, I felt so tired Monday night and washed out all day Tuesday and Wednesday.

Good morning from a drizzly Suffolk where we had lots of rain last night. An early start as my car had to be at the garage for 8am for its MOT and I’m shortly leaving for my stretch class. DH will take and collect me as it is about 5 miles away.

Will read all your posts on my return and hope they indicate it’s a good day for most and a bearable one for those with worries and/ or health issues.

Good luck with your op Whitewavemark2, I hope everything goes well and you’re back posting with us in a couple of days.

It’s clear and going to be sunny here today, the weather is supposed to change at the weekend just as DGS and his cousin go home, they’ve been very lucky. I looked out earlier and the car was missing so presume they’ve gone to get bread rolls etc for a picnic lunch somewhere. Back to the quiet life for us next week.

Had trouble waking up this morning, everso tired after a couple of late nights. Grey start here in Norfolk but not cold.

Thanks for the kind birthday messages on Monday. Today would have been my Dad’s 102nd birthday. He made it to 86.

Had my flu jab on Tues but no covid jab this time.

No idea what I am doing today as have been out every day this week. Probably cleaning and tidying. 😉

Good morning from a sunny NE where it is 6 degrees.
Had a pleasant lunch with sister and BIL, the restaurant was quite close to Sainsbury's so we could carry on and do the shopping.
I sent a message to SIL, he is still very poorly with covid, he says the cat senses he is not well and rarely leaves his side.
I think I will wash some bedding.
Thoughts are with poorly people and their carers.

Good morning all have late start for work today. It’s turned very cold here in the NE. Have full day planned just keeping up. Have new electric car and it’s like driving a golf buggy! Hilarious moment when husband and I went to charge it thinking did we ever think we’d be driving this way back in the 70’s so funny! This was all number 1 sons doing! Love and hugs to all struggling.good luck whitewave for today.

Good morning from a wet Severnside. I’ve been feeling a bit gloomy like the weather so am looking forward to weekend sunshine.
I’ve a few errands to run and then do my weekly shop.
I hope all goes well for your operation Whitewave. I had mine out a good few years ago, rested up for a few days and have been fine.

All the best to you all ☔️🪷

Good Morning from a bright chilly Co Armagh, it’s still only 5 deg out , frost on cars and roofs
Off to Mass now , there is usually a class of children from the primary school in attendance , lovely to see them . I try to work out who each child is related to ! My youngest granddaughter has left for secondary school,, big change from running the few steps to getting on the bus
Thanks Stilllearning candles and prayers for Marydoll I hope the GP gets to the source of your illness
🕯️🙏🏼💐 for all poorly grans