Good Morning Friday 22nd March 2024

Good morning from a cloudy W Kent. A very small number at art group yesterday and reports of illness. DH picked me up and we went to a local garden and had lunch followed by a trip to a jewellers for DD2 ‘s 50th birthday present. Today shopping and regular GS duties
gM what a long day hope the drops get working soon
Best wishes to all

Good morning all and it’s dull herein Essex.

Took Dd to A and E yesterday and saw a GP who is fairly sure is appendicitis. They put her on a drip for sickness and hydration. Still waiting for a scan and she was admitted to a ward last evening. Waiting to hear this morning.
As you say GM you have to have the patience of a saint.

Litt,e DGD is still snoozing . She’s such a good girl but misses her mum terribly. I’ll take her to school and await the day.

Take care all 🌷

Good morning from Shropshire.A dry day forecast.

The MRI went better than I had hoped.When I was led out to the mobile unit my heart sank but a lovely young man was very encouraging and gently talked me through the whole experience.I hope that’s the last one for a while🤞🏻

Today DH hopes to mow the lawns while I start preparing for the family arriving for a few days next week.Lists to be written!

grandMattie what a day you had.You must be exhausted.Look after yourself.

Well done on moving the boxes corner and am glad the carpenters are coming today.

Have the best day you can everyone🦩

Morning all from West Oxfordshire. It looks dry and springlike.
OH is off target shooting today and then to a bee lecture this evening. I will make lemon ice cream, finish off the WI admin and maybe a bit of dusting. Ive also got to pop into our nearby town and move some money around.
Glad your eye is sorted out GM. Hope Urms has a good journey back. I expect her short trip has done the world of good.

Good morning from another lovely sunny day here in Malta.

It’s DD3’s 35th birthday today. I remember that day so clearly. She was an easy birth, I didn’t need pain relief and it was all over quite quickly!

So sorry to hear of your long ordeal yesterday GM. Hopefully life will get fed up of upsetting you soon and you’ll get the peace you deserve.💐

I’m with the boys who are playing happily. I took them out yesterday and hadn’t realised how hot it was so I was a sweaty mess by the time we returned.

Wishing you all a good day.☀️

Good morning from a dry Durham. I missed the gardener yesterday, but at least the grass is cut and the border tidied. I’ve ordered lawn stuff and I’ll apply that myself before his next visit.
Coffee with a friend first, then a blitz around Tesco later.
A long day gM but a relief to get your eye treated.
The Octopus saga continues - they’re going to send someone out to inspect the meter.
Best wishes to all. X

Good morning, Michael and all GNs. The weather palette is all cool greys this morning. Had a lovely walk yesterday with the Thursday group, but it was very boggy in places after all the rain we’ve had. Not as bad as DS and DiL who were walking up Tarn How in the Lake District and by the time they got back down were soaked through to their socks and underwear!
Volunteering at school this afternoon then hoping to cut the front lawn if it stays dry.
Have the best day you can, folks.

Good morning from s somerset, we will have a dry day and a bit of sun

I would like to see you taking a bit more rest GM. You have been through the wars in the recent past and you need to recover, always busy but that comes at a cost, your body and mind need to heal

I am going to, mostly, be indoors today. I want to do a little bit of cleaning and a bit of zen sewing, perhaps have my breaks outside, just sitting in the sun. I need to keep up with myself

Have a good day

Good morning from Cornwall where it's rainy and bright. Found myself in a secondhand bookshop yesterday and came back with a heavy backpack of non-fiction reading. Yippee. The gulls have arrived here with beaks full of twigs right above my stairwell. They peck at the corrugated plastic roofing and I answer my door in response. I'm going to try not to react to the constant banging on my window this year, but we'll see how that goes. It's only every day until September, after all. 🤪

My 'boys' forgetting they're in their 40's in the pic. Long may it last.

gM my friend has frequent iris infections but specifically as a side effect of rheumatoid arthritis. So glad you had good care.

Good morning from a grey skied south Glos, I can see the sky from my bed because I don’t have any curtains up while the decorating is underway. It will be finished this morning and I am so pleased with it.
I did have blue walls but, oh my, it’s been making the room so gloomy I was getting quite miserable about it so white walls it is!
I will get the furniture back in later.
I hope your eye clears up very soon grandMattie, iritis is very painful I believe (my friend gets bouts of it, necessitating a trip to the same eye hospital as you) 💐
Have a peaceful day, hugs for anyone who needs them 🌹

Morning Mick, morning All from a damp corner of Somerset. Should be dry later.

Flitting about, OK moving very slowly from Dunelm to The Range, yesterday morning I was so pleased to finally find a kitchen bin to fit a very small space, simple things cheer me these days. Mr C won the battle of the wardrobe top boxes and you know he was right. From floor to bed, from bed to resting on the top of a step ladder I was perched on to the top of the wardrobe. Easy. How smug was he? Everything now back in place. Wonderful.

Still grumping about the doors yesterday evening had Mr C honing his planned ignoring/selective deafness skills until a message from our carpenters. Could they come this morning and was 8am too early? I’d have agreed to 6am! I know, as my Dad would have said, worse things happen at sea but such a weight lifted.

Must remove some dust at some point this morning and looking forward to Tai Chi this afternoon

With thoughts to all finding life hard going. Hope Friday is gentle with us all.

Good morning from a calm and mild Torbay.

After a misty start yesterday, the sun broke through so I girded up my loins (ie dug out my recently acquired walking poles!) and headed for a walk over the Downs. The weather was perfect with blue skies and warm enough for me to enjoy sitting on a bench for a while.

I suggest you wrap up warmly for your outings, Mick as we feel the cold more as we grow older especially with health issues.
What a long day, grandMattie but it sounds like you’ve received good treatment and it must be a relief to feel improvement already.

My DD2 whose, school is in Staffs., breaks up for Easter today but her own children who are in Cheshire schools finish one day next week.

A happy day is wished to all. 🦩🥰🦩💐🦩

Good morning from a wet Bristol. I hope it’ll clear by the time I leave for Spanish. The last class before Easter.
Yesterday , after the usual fight for an emergency appointment at the optician, I left home at 10 for a bus.
I saw someone, who wasn’t sure what I had, called his supervisor who said she thought it was an infection of the white of my eye and I had to go to the eye hospital asap. I bought myself a sandwich on the way and got registered there.
The usual tests and 3 hour wait. The specialist did more tests and too many bright lights, etc., told me I had an inflammation of the iris. ( I had no idea that could happen!). I have been prescribed steroid eye drops to be put in hourly for one week, reducing by an hour weekly, for seven weeks. I am to be reviewed in a fortnight.
The prescription was dispensed at the Royal Infirmary on another campus. Got there, had yet another wait…. I finally left by 5 pm. Excellent and kind treatment, but, oh, the patience one needs. Fortunately, I had bought a new book with me and was halfway through it by the end!
I took the bus to see an anxious DD who I’d kept informed throughout, in my new “openness”.
I got home at 8pm. It had been a very long day.
My eye feels a great deal better already, most of the pain in my eyeball has gone, which is good.
I hope Urms has a good journey home after her break. Hugs all round. Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩🦩

Good morning Mick, morning all from South Lanarkshire where it’s probably going to rain soon.

Childminding day today, we were there overnight on Tuesday helping with the school run the next morning, I certainly wouldn’t have the energy for that every day.

Wishing everyone the best day possible.