Good Morning Monday 13th May 2024

Good morning from North Yorkshire. It’s cloudy but set to be fair.
I have had a lovely weekend in Northumberland. We went to St Cuthbert’s cave, walked to Craster and Dunstanburgh castle and stopped off at Cragside on the way home. The weather was beautiful.
Back to laundry and shopping this morning. Hairdresser this afternoon.
Wishing you all a good day.

Good morning all. High cloud but fairly bright here in Sefton. It seems very warm already. Rain not forecast for today - we had quite enough with the stormy deluge yesterday evening. Singing this morning & possibly a food shop this afternoon. Wishing you all a pleasant start to your week.

Good morning from a cloudy W Kent. The cleaning lady will be here this morning to sort us out and later we intend to go to a walk in for our jabs. I hope I don’t feel as ill as last time.
Best wishes to all

Belated birthday greetings to Harrigran I hope you enjoyed it.

Good morning from another sunny Suffolk with no rain forecast for several days and then very little.

I’m always amazed at how the muddy footpaths feel and look like concrete after a few hot days.

I have an all day meeting on Wednesday so need to spend several hours reading in preparation. I’ll have to make a reluctant start on it today as all the paperwork is online and I need to be indoors. I know if I leave it til the evening I’ll be too tired to concentrate!

Hope all are the best day possible today.

Good morning all and it’s bright here in Essex, at the moment.
Yesterday was so warm !

I took little DGD for her swimming lesson and was amazed at how much she’d improved. Back here for lunch and then we watched a film as she was tired (she has such a busy life). Took her back to her mum who’d been poorly .

Today I have my Chimes group and then I’m meeting up with a friend for lunch. We’ll arrange a day out with the local coach company for September . Our booked trip has been cancelled.
You would think last weeks episode would put me off , but I do like a coach trip.

The children look lovely in their finery Mary - especially the boys in their kilts. I remember the excitement of the day with my own children - very emotional. 🙏.

Take care all. 🌸

Morning Mick, morning All from a cloudy corner of Somerset

Quiet one yesterday, drifted about in the morning and pottered at home in the afternoon. The forecast deluge from a storm was one clap of thunder and half a dozen rain spots, a disappointed Mr C was on pot watering detail. This morning it’s admin after tackling our energy supplier, I’m not anticipating it will be either easy or fun but needs doing. Best to get it over. May get to a garden centre this afternoon. There could be rain, who knows.

Have the best day you can everyone.

Good morning Mick and everyone from overcast Carlisle where the sun keeps trying to break through.

Yesterday was pleasant weatherwise until late afternoon when the skies darkened and we had a brief thunderstorm followed by hours of heavy rain. I wasn't displeased as it will save me watering my new plantings, something I had begun to do earlier in the day.

Today I will finish off the laundry, the bulk of which was done yesterday, then I have various little tidying jobs before just pleasing myself!
I had a welcome visitor in the garden earlier on, a handsome goldfinch, the first one I've spotted here. It's a bit of a bird desert roundabouts really. He didn't stay long and I'm hoping to see him back.

Wishing you all the best possible day.

Good morning from Derbyshire where it is sunny again.
Went to a reservoir yesterday, there were lots of geese and ducks and other birds to see from a hide. It was very peaceful but tiring in the heat.
Went to French restaurant for dinner and had a little walk after as it was cooler. Sky started to look threatening and we made our way back to the cottage, we made it before the heavy rain started. There was lightning and a few rumbles ot thunder but not as bad as expected.
Today we think we may visit Bakewell.
Belated birthday greetings to Monk.
Have a good day everyone.

Glad you had a nice birthday Harrigran.
It was Mr Monks birthday mines September.

Good Morning from an overcast cooler Co Armagh
Yesterday was busy , plants to be potted up , pots to be planted up ,! Deadheading …..
Armagh was beaten by Donegal after extra time and penalty shoot out , middle son is gutted !
Grocery shopping today , then I’ll look out the patio cushions, I had put it off last week making do with cushions from indoors , but it’s a faff taking them out and in
No thunder or rain here yet , be nice if it held off for a little while
Marydoll our first Communion is next Sunday , 15 children , the regular attenders have been asked , in the most polite way , to leave room for the families ! So that’s me back to on line Mass
Have as good a day as possible friends

Good morning Mick and all from Sunnyside northwest coast.
DD from the south here and we had a nice day yesterday, lunch in town and a little shopping towards her holiday in Crete with her childhood friends. She leaves tomorrow.

Later I visited my musician friend in hospital ( in the middle of a massive thunderstorm) who has suffered a heart attack but was in very good form and never stopped talking. I took him some little gifts and a hand painted card.
He is being transferred to the cardiac unit in the nearest city so I await his news on what treatment he will have. He will be missed at the music club.

My DS arrives tonight and DD said she will cook.
Hope you all have the best day you can🌺

The threatened thunderstorm never materialised yesterday despite an impressive build up of the right sort of clouds and today is just grey and windy and not particularly warm. Like so many I am planning the garden for summer but trying to only use plants which don’t need too much attention once they are in so discussion needed with the gardener when he comes at lunch time.

Glad all the complicated plans for yesterday worked out and hope today is satisfactory too, especially Corner trying to sort out suppliers and anyone else dealing with increasingly tiresome authorities of whatever kind.

Good morning Mick and all from sunny Lancashire, currently 16°C.

We had the mother of all thunderstorms last night with a deluge. It had got quite hot and sultry. Today it feels much fresher, thankfully.

We are going to look at yet another chair this morning. It seems to be what we’ve looking for, now need to see if it’s comfortable. It has been an “interesting” experience, and very useful. These chairs are not cheap and we don’t want to make an expensive mistake. It really gets my goat when I tell salespeople what I want and they then tell me what I (in their opinion) need. I may be a wobbly old lady now, but I’ve lived with my impairments for years, I’m an expert at it by now . I know what works for me and what doesn’t.

Beautiful photo of the children Marydoll, enjoy your break.

Happy Monday 🌻

Planning on starting my new book club read this afternoon - The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy

I read that book years ago BlueSapphire and loved it.

Your cruise sounded amazing! I enjoyed your daily bulletins and all your photos. Almost as good as being with you. 😁