Good Morning Tuesday 9th January 2024

Good morning from a brightening W Kent. So sorry that so many are dealing with all kinds of sadness. Telephone chat to DF from my art group about her very ill daughter, hopefully we have fixed a date to meet and chat.
U3A today I hope someone has put the heating on.
Best wishes to all

Good morning from an icy and windy South Downs brr.

Wandering whether I ought to put my crampon things over my boots when i go out - I’m useless on ice.

Bitterly cold though, so a day indoors - will make a start on a spare bedroom used as a big store cupboard with shelves lining all the walls. Need to give it a spring type clean and tidy - put away the Christmas decs etc.

Must give the birds an extra lot of food today as well as my foxes - the vixen will be expecting soon!! I put out a feeder full of nuts that had gone out of date two days ago for the squirrels it was gone within half a day! Hopefully they have stored them somewhere.

Sorry to hear the sadness of mortality - my condolences and kind thoughts to all suffering.

Goats cheese and thyme quiche with salad - hardly in keeping with the season🥶

Peace and harmony to all.

Good morning from cold South Lanarkshire although it is January so it would be odd if it wasn’t.

Caught up late yesterday and was sorry to read about your friend farview.

Taichinan, wonderful that your weekend more than lived up to expectations, a precious time indeed. I also want to tell you that I sent off for the night vision glasses you recommended and was amazed at the difference they made when I unexpectedly had to drive home one evening last week. I managed the busy traffic comfortably. I will still avoid driving in the dark if I can but they were a great help, thank you.

Two fabulous cakes yesterday too, what skill.

I started a chair yoga class yesterday morning and enjoyed it very much. In many ways it was like the exercise class I went to before which sadly finished before Christmas, but all the movements were slower and more intense and my body definitely knew it had been working!

Lunch with DD1 today to belatedly mark her New Year’s Day birthday, it will be nice to have the chance to chat.

Thoughts to quite a few people with sadness this morning and wishing everyone a good day.

No snow but certainly cold enough. How I loathe January! Supermarket shop and a friend for a cup of tea later are planned for today and possibly a bit of drawer sorting if I can muster sufficient enthusiasm. Sorry so many have sadness in their lives at present; loss seems inevitable as we get older.

Good morning all from a very cold North Leicestershire.

Sing it Happy this morning with chocolate birthday cake to hand round.

I was strangely cheered yesterday to find out that my very mild mannered friend (who is in hospital with an infection and noone knows what else) told her husband and consultant to b****r off and leave her alone.

Good morning everyone from a chilly but dry south Manchester. I’ve rung the doctor for me just now. I’ve had a tickly cough for a couple of weeks which has become chesty & productive. I’ve bought cough linctus but as it seems worse thought I’d better get checked out in case I need antibiotics. Waiting for a call back.

Here’s Matt.
x

Good morning from a bitterly cold Oxfordshire, still some snow on the rooftops and cars from yesterday afternoon.
Just a walk with the dog in a minute, she stayed over for a second night to save MissOops from coming out in the snow, we have a shopping delivery later.
Jigsaw is still waiting……….
Have a good day everyone stay warm and take care.

80 pots of marmalade! Wowzer grandmattie!
I think between you, you and karmalady have enough energy to power the National Grid.
😁
#lazygran

Good morning from North Yorkshire. Dull and grey but no frost here.
I saw the nurse practitioner yesterday about my cough. Apparently is a virus and I just have to wait it out. It does seem a little better this morning but I have really strained my abdominal muscles coughing. That has caused much merriment with the DDs…muscles mum 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Today I have ironing to do then the usual puzzles, reading and knitting.
Tonight our football team play Chelsea in the semi final of the cup. This rolls back the years as we used to go all over to support them. Happy memories if not successful outcomes.
💐 for all the poorlies and good wishes for a better day.

Good morning from Cornwall, uber late for me after sitting up until 3am watching films and sewing cushions for my new sofa. -3° here at the moment; foreign for this area! The sea yesterday by the town wall was a colour called Payne's Grey which my dad loved to use in his ship paintings.

Today I'll go to the Community Café at our church. Last winter we called it Warm Space but the church is vast and lofty and somewhat cold so we changed the name. Warm welcome though!

Sorry about all the sadness here today. 🥀

Urms sending you a hug. Hope you get sorted. Do ask about which cough meds is the right one. I thought mine was chesty but apparently it’s dry and the linctus need to be different. Take care xx

Thanks Alygran will do. 😊

My cough lasted for months Alygran and Urms but I do believe it's finally left me. There is hope.

Good morning Mick and everyone from a Carlisle of sun and cloud. It's colder and does that cloud contain snow or rain? Staying in whatever.
I'll more or less finish off any necessary housework this morning then I'll have a think about the freezer. It will probably go no further than that today! In the afternoon, more reading.
I'm a big marmalade fan but too lazy to make my own now. I'm picky about what I buy though and it's rarely from the supermarket now. However much you pay for it, it all seems to have a gel-like consistency so I now buy from small local producers stocked at the local deli. Incidentally, the local stately home (Dalemain) has an annual marmalade festival, now in the summer I believe. Perhaps grandMattie should enter their best marmalade competition?

Have the best possible day all of you.

Good morning from Shropshire.Dry and cold again.

A trip into town to collect a parcel from M and S.School pick up later and DH will look after the children while DD go to our Welsh class.

Thinking of all with sadness.

Good news for Mr C cornergran.His recovery has gone so well.

Have the best day you can everyone🦩

Good morning everyone it’s -2 here on the east coast of Fife I think I’ll have a jammy day
I’m tired with all my comings and going’s.
Have a good day my friends

Yes Grammaretto a friend has been similar to you. This may well be viral. I don’t feel unwell but just think with how things are at home I don’t want it to develop into anything. Best just to be checked over I think.

Good morning Mick and all from sunny Lancashire, currently 1°C.

It was freezing overnight, there is quite a ground frost. We are off to buy some new pillows and may have a wander around a few more shops if I feel up to it.

Have a good day everyone 🌻

Urms my cough lasted just one week short of 3 months.
After 6 weeks I was put on the 2WW pathway, they agreed with my GP that it was a Virus, but it was useful to have the XRay and CT scan.

Good Morning from a bright freezing Co Armagh
I broke the ice on my water feature , it’s an old farm cast iron boiler and it was leaking last year , my Son in Law repaired it , I hope it doesn’t spring a leak again , it’s one of the few old things from the farm
Thoughts and prayers for the poorly and sad 🕯️

Oh definitely Urms get checked out. I did, but was told I had probably had a virus or even two!
I hope yours doesn't develop into anything nasty
My favourite home remedy is steam inhalation. Lean over a bowl of very hot water with a towel over your head and the bowl. Forget the world.

Good morning from Glasgow. Sunshine and no frost, a much better start to the day.

A visit to the dump later, which we still have to book a slot for, very inconvenient as I never know if it is possible to attend any appointments at any given time. A heavier than usual post which will have to be weighed requires a visit to the PO.
Gone are the days when a courtesy car was available Cornergran, I had to pay £18 recently for a ‘courtesy’ car!
I know exactly where the squirrels in our garden store nuts Whitewave, obvious signs, in the grass near the birdfeeders.
Kind thoughts to those with such sadness to bear. 💐

Have the best day possible all.

Late this morning. Cold and dry here in Co Durham. For once the NE seems to be faring better than the south, weather wise.
Dgd and dogs arrived at 8.15 for walk to school then off to hairdressers.
So much sadness on here today. Thinking of you all.
Safe travels to those out and about. Enjoy your day.

Good morning Mick and all from a cold Sunnyside northwest .
Pleased to have sorted clutter yesterday and finally and hopefully there will be a bin collection today.

Singing at Music club this afternoon so will make an effort to look human, i.e. dress up a bit (Carmen) flower for hair🌺
This cold weather has made me very slothful.

Glad you are putting some weight back on Mick and thoughts to all with troubles.

Good morning from a sunny and frosty East Midlands. Lovely day for a nice walk.