Good Morning Tuesday 7th November 2023

Good morning all from Glasgow. Blue skies and sunshine again.

Yesterday was a hectic non stop type of day with various activities. An exhausting day which, after dinner I fell asleep.
More busyness this morning as I have to drop my car off soon for a service, collect a courtesy car, return DH’s signed V5 in Giffnock, 👋 Stilllearning and lastly, papers to be signed at our solicitors in your neck of the woods Baubles 👋

Hope all has been resolved for your DD Gingster

Results from DH’s bowel screening shows traces of blood which need investigating. A colonoscopy is out of the question but I am 99% positive I know the cause. Hope our GP agrees.

Best wishes to all for a peaceful day whatever your plans may be.

Good morning from another sunny Suffolk. I hope today is a less stressful one for those with difficulties yesterday. We too Marydoll have an ongoing battle with Shell over our monthly dd for our electricity. They accepted they were wrong in their calculations but still took over £740 from our account last month….after wanting a photo of our meter showing the serial number as well as the actual reading! Did they think it wasn’t our meter we were photographing!

I’m going to make our Christmas cake today. I have always made it during the October half term but was away so I’ve soaked the dried fruit in extra brandy to make up for the lost time.

Hoping Gingster’s DD was dealt with efficiently and speedily at A&E yesterday and got reassuring answers to her concerns.

Baubles, how awful for you all. Added to prayer list.

Oh Baubles I’ll definitely keep your sisters husband in my thoughts today 💐

Good morning all and it’s a bright start.

Thank you all for your kind wishes and prayers for my Dd.
We spent 2 hours waiting for bloods to be taken. Then into A and E and stayed another 10 hours.😵‍💫.
They took more bloods and examined her thoroughly. Of course inbetween seeing each nurse or doctor was a 2 or more hours wait.. Bloods all ok so now she has to go to her GP for a referral to a Rheumatologist. So really no further forward 😤.
I have never seen so many people crammed in - standing room only as we left at 10 pm. People lying on the floor or across seats. The nurses /docs run off their feet. What’s to become of us!

Urms enjoy your lovely few days.
Lovely neighbours GM
Marydoll I hope today is restful for you. What a day you had. Other grannies can be awkward - ours too.😡.

Take care and Thankyou all again. So lovely to have friends ! ❤️

Morning Mick, morning All from a dry corner of Somerset. Hooray.

Decent day yesterday, enjoyed a morning faffing and managed to find all the practical stuff we needed at a large garden centre along with some suitable plants to take to two cemeteries.

Grocery order due then we’re off for a wander round a shopping mall. After lunch we’ll have a short visit to Wonder Woman, our (stressed) son and our live wire grandson. It will be good to see our daughter in law, reports have been far too short on detail.

Another here thinking about gingsters daughter. Oh maryd what a day! Good news on the sick bay front ash. 🤞 for a smooth bathroom renovation grandmattie. Ours was similar, quite a shock when we saw what was under the flooring. Enjoy every minute urms.

Have the best day you can everyone.

Good morning all from bright South Lanarkshire.

I’m looking forward to meeting a Gransnetter friend for coffee later.

I haven’t read through the thread yet as I’ve been messaging my sister. If you can please spare a thought or a prayer for her DH who is on a ventilator having undergone emergency surgery last night. He’s been having treatment for cancer for months and has had complications arising from surgery which he had last week.

Have the best day possible everyone.

Oh dear MaryDoll never a dull moment in your home.

I use Waitrose for Christmas Delivery, they release their slots in September (nite to self must see what I put in my basket 🤣)

Dear Urmstongran lunch with your friends will be bittersweet, I hope you have more laughter than tears 😘😘

Morning all from West Oxfordshire. Gosh, a lot of you have had ‘exciting’ times!
I’m going to ring my cleaner today and if she’s still unwell I will make a concerted effort to clean the house! OH hoovers and I do everything else.
I need to get on with making C… lists. Some of you have talked about booking supermarket slots. I had better get on with it.
I should get up. Next door’s builders arrive at 8 am (they are having an extension which will overlook our conservatory) so no chance of any more sleep. Just saying that planning permission seems to be given Willy nilly these days. Someone three doors up has a large black cube like object over their garage.
Anyway, have a good day everyone. It’s so good to hear that the Urms are enjoying themselves.

Good morning, Michael and all GNs. It’s much cooler again in South Yorkshire but dry at the moment. Rain is forecast later. I woke up in the night with a sore throat. A quiet day for me here. Homework to do for writer’s group tomorrow, some ironing and make an appointment to get my hair cut.
Ash good to hear OD is feeling better.
GM looks like serious leakage has been going on there! Be good to get that sorted!
Have the best day you can, folks.

Good morning everyone. It's dry and there are patches of blue sky showing over the Angus coast, and it's 7°. Yesterday was a glorious day - definitely thought we'd gone back to September. Climate change with a vengeance!
The main event yesterday was my covid and flu jabs - no problems at all except for a slightly sore arm on the covid side this morning. So no problem anticipated with tai chi this morning, or the shopping which must follow.
Enjoy your trip out today Mick - and the all-day breakfast.
Grandmattie I hope all goes smoothly with your bathroom work.
That sounds like a wonderful trip with your DD Hollysteers - enjoy the heat - and the poolside cocktails 😉
Gingster I hope your DD got help and answers yesterday. So worrying for you all.
Now I must off and get this show on the road, as they say. That full-on (wonderful) weekend is catching up with me, but that's nothing that another good night's sleep won't cure - preferably in the next ten minutes!
Enjoy your day everyone, however it is spent x

Good morning from, yet again, wet Sefton. Despite the rain coming down in stair rods yesterday, the considerable reduction of some trees and bushes in our garden went ahead, thank goodness.
A collection of an order, a catch up with a good friend and some returns constitute my day. I admit to laughing when one high street store’s website noted, “You’ve looked at this four times in the last seven hours.” C** Day apparel, Tesco food slots? What is this madness? 😂
Thinking of those with struggles and wishing everyone the best of days.
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Good morning everyone from sunny Málaga. It’s so nice to be back in our ‘happy place’. Bittersweet of course in some ways and I was quite emotional at times yesterday.

The palm trees are dancing this morning. We have highs of 22°C again today but it’s only warm when on the sunny side of the street. (I think there’s a song in there somewhere that us oldies may remember! 🎵 🎶).

I have a hair appointment late morning for my wash and blow holiday treat in the salon below. Then LWW with dear friends. I will take tissues.

The bar where we meet closes at 4:30pm these days my friends tell me. It’s a tiny little Spanish tapas bar off the main drag but business is very slow these days and the lady who owns it wants to sell. Now she (back in the day, not now) used to make fabulous and different tapas. If she can’t make a loving from it, who can? Maybe it will open as a vape shop. They are springing up all over out here too I’m told. Sad times for Maria Carmen, the owner. She says she will go and work for someone in a bar. Covering her overheads has become too stressful.

Himself and I plan to eat in Pedro's on the corner below us at 6pm. Not late evenings for us these days but I’m so very grateful for whatever is possible in our ‘new normal’. Carpe diem indeed grandMattie.

Here’s Matt.
x

Morning from Giffnock, a morning with DGD beckons as she is off school. She is creating a 3D scene to take to her art class on Friday so I only have to hand her scissors etc and restrain her over ambitious plans.

Later I am meeting a Gransnet pal and really looking forward to catching up. Starting having to factor in dark roads in planning as I just don’t drive in the dark anymore, eyesight problems and car headlights don’t mix well.

At the weekend 8 year old DGS asked his dad to play ‘Truth or a Dare. “Is Santa real?”. Poor dad just lied but DGS came out of school yesterday and immediately asked me how Santa could possibly visit every child in the world on one night?
Being semi prepared I obfuscated, but oh dear!
His eleven year old sister meanwhile is a total believer🥺. It is going to be a long six weeks!

Prayers continue for Gingsters DD and others who need them.

Grammaretto, I was lucky it was the meter which was faulty, not an appliance. They are obliged to replace it, because they cannot leave you without gas.
The engineer was fantastic and even checked my cooker and boiler to ensure everything was working.

Feelingmyage, I wanted Saturday 23rd and got the slot I wanted. I found it less stressful than previous years. I booked it because I know that our local Tesco, which is huge will be too crowded for me and if I send DH, he will come back with nothing I asked for and a whole lote of rubbish!. 🤣

Good to see you posting Grammaretto.

Good morning from a dry but dull NE.
Yesterday did very little, just cleaned the hob extractor, an easier job now I have a battery operated brush, cuts through the grease in no time.
Hairdresser is coming this morning then I should do some washing.
Your bathroom has to be an improvement on that grandMattie , hope it is all up and working very soon.
Thinking of Urmston and her DH.

Good morning all from another dry and sunny start to the day after overnight rain.
grandMattie what lovely kind neighbours you appear to have.
Ash good to hear Olddudders is on the mend.
Marydoll what a day you had cannot believe the other granny, hope you have a quieter day today.
Urms I believe its LWW today enjoy catching up with friends 🥂.
As the sun is shining DH will want to go out so I think a trip to the deli at the garden centre is in order.
Enjoy your day everyone whatever your plans and may you all find some ☀️.

Good morning everyone from a bright and sunny 🌞Northampton, 4° outside; a dry day ahead so will get the towels I washed last night out on the line.

A morning of pottering, then out after lunch on my health walk. Be nice to have company. Then some reading when I get home.

Hope you have a less fraught day Marydoll, and hoping all goes well with your bathroom grandMattie . Keep calm and carry on!

I too was up and logged in at 5:40 for my Tesco slot, by 6:15 I’d booked the 23rd as hoped, feel like going back to bed!

Good morning all from the Scottish Borders. Dry so far
Yesterday's eye procedure went smoothly and quickly though the surgeon asked me if I had enjoyed it No I did not!. I am relieved it's over and will be obedient with the many rules during the healing process. No magic improvement in my sight and a headache this morning. I shall have a quiet day at home.

Poor Marydoll ! What a nightmare. When I called their emergency number on smelling gas someone came within the hour. TBH he just turned the gas off which I'd already done and disabled the connection. I had to find an engineer to find the actual leak and so ensued all the works fun and games a new boiler, new cooker, new radiators and eventually a much more efficient system.

gMattie I hope your plumber makes a good job of the bathroom.
I'm glad you are able to take up your neighbours offers. What goes around, comes around and you have been such a rock to your friends in need.
I'll come back to read later all the news I've missed.
Hoping everyone has a good day.

I shouldn’t have said it is dry. The rain is now hammering down but like Marydoll I have my Tesco slot so I feel as if I have done today’s big chore.

Good morning from a dry north of Scotland.
I set the alarm for 5.30 to queue for a Tesco delivery slot. Waiting time was already an hour, dropped to half an hour went up to an hour and suddenly dropped to twenty minutes🤔. Up down, then at 6.40 offered the timetable. NO slots on 24 Dec and almost none on 23 Dec. Sigh. I have thrown milk in the basket and will set reminders on my phone to go back and sort things out.
GM I am sorry you have such a mess to repair. The silver lining is the kindness of your fellow inmates and you will have a shiny new bathroom soon(ish).
Best wishes to all.

Good morning everyone from Inverness where it’s cloudy and we’ve had rain overnight
Goodness me marydoll what a day! Pleased you’ve got your Tesco slot now sorted now and today goes much better for you
Hope your mums and her house is much warmer now Susan thank goodness you checked in on her
I’m off to the gym first thing and then home to do some housework and general sorting out. DD2 has given me a big box of toys and games etc that the DGC have grown out off to see what might sell on eBay and what’s going to the charity shop. That should keep me busy for a while
Thinking of Gingster and her DD
Thinking of everyone with worries and struggles, hope today is gentle and take care all whatever the day brings 💐

Good morning everyone.
An at home day for us, apart from a walk.
Washing to put in, and will bake a couple of dozen mince pies.
I’m annoyed with myself as I misscut. some ribbon for a craft project and now can’t finish until some more arrives. Still, I have plenty of other things to get on with.
Hugs and kind thoughts for all who need them and a good day wished for all.