Good Morning Friday 14th June 2024

Good Morning from a dry Co Armagh !!
Youngest Daughter with her eldest Daughter coming for the weekend today , looking forward to plenty of chat and some crafting , me crocheting and she always has some knitting in her bag ! 15 yr old Granddaughter is an expert eye roller !
The difference in perspective between us is interesting , I think a weekend is very short , Daughter thinks we’ve ages together , Granddaughter thinks it’s forever 🤣
My tomatoes and cucumbers are looking promising in the greenhouse ,Salad leaves and mint flourishing ,
Never know whether to tidy before they come of just leave it till they go 🙄 as long as it’s clean !
Have the best day x

I feel your pain Marydoll. I don’t have RA but I do have a TMJ disfunction and some nerve damage. Luckily my lovely dentist knows my problem and always pauses a few times.

Morning all, will catch up later, have a good day 🙋‍♀️

Good morning Mick and all from sunny Ibiza. Spent the day around the quiet pool yesterday and started a new Angela Thirkell novel, just right light reading for the hols.

We are enjoying some unusual meals here, the hotel is under new management and has had a refurbishment. We do miss the usual chef however on our fourth visit…
Just a walk around the marina and coffee to end the day. Cramp calmed down last night. Maybe the sun on my legs helps.

Thoughts to MissOops Harri and all with worries 🌺

Good morning Mick and everyone from cloudy Lancashire, currently 13°C.

MrB and I had a lovely time yesterday catching up with family. The pub restaurant was new to me, really nice and good food. The chat as ever was mighty! Rain forecast for today, a day of pottering indoors here.

Happy Friday everyone 🌷

Good morning Mick and everyone from cool, damp and overcast Carlisle. Looking at the forecast, rain is due nearly every day next week.
With that in mind, I mowed the front lawn before lunch. The wimpy grass isn't growing much but is throwing up flowering stalks and I like the front to look well groomed.
Today, the kitchen is getting my attention, a good wipe down for everything and my thoughts are lightly turning to defrosting the freezer, not in the next week though, I'll run it down a bit more. Then it will be catching up with reading for the afternoon although I would like to get out and trim back one or two of my shrub roses which are overladen and drooping with lots of soggy shrivelled blooms.

I really hope something can be done for MissOops, sounds awful and she can't go on like that so good luck at A&E Oops.

Keep warm, everyone!

Good morning from a sunny W Kent. Quiet morning here as we are both still wheezing away. A bit of ironing and tidying around.
I hope MissOpps gets swift attention.
Hope the letter works gM
Marydoll that sounds really nasty hope it all settles down
All the best for today’s comings and goings

Good morning from Durham, where there’s a blue sky and it’s going to be a little warmer today, but the downside is with heavy rain!
Got the bill for the building work - eye watering, as I didn’t realize the scaffolding hire was extra! It had to be done, so it is what it is. Gulp!!
Little Dog was groomed yesterday and she found a tick on him - safely removed, but I’ll keep my eye on him. Groomer says they are prolific this year.
After staying in to provide refreshments for the builders, I can get back to normal, so coffee with a friend this morning. I’ll go to the bank later and do the transfer to the builder, I don’t trust myself to move such a big sum.
Sorry you’re unwell Harri and I hope others in the sick bay improve.
Best wishes to all. X

Good morning from another cloudy chilly morning in Cambridgeshire. Goodness there does seem to be a lot going on with everyone and sending best wishes for a good hopefully healthy pain free day to all.

I have Eye Clinic appointment this morning with various scans etc which will take most of the morning. I won’t be able to drive for a few hours after so DH will do the school pick up. It is then the school summer fayre.

Our heating went on last night then I got overheated 😂

Good morning from a, yet again, soggy Sefton. Rain forecast all day & possibly a bit stormy later. We had planned to take the train into town to click & collect some books & replenish DH's dwindling stock of black T-shirts - he wears a 'uniform' of black T-shirt & jeans. (DiL2 complained that DS2 was similarly boring so he bought a bright sunshine yellow hoodie & matching trainers!I have learnt to say nothing.) He sometimes throws caution to the wind by wearing a navy blue t-shirt. But I think we'll knock that plan on the head in view of the weather. Another duvet day it is, but first my 2 zoom exercise classes.today is kind to you all.
Hoping today is kind to you all.

Good morning everyone from a rather mixed morning here in Northampton, rain forecast later, but intermittent sunshine and cloud at the moment.

A morning of pottering yesterday; mopped the bathroom floors, hoovered the bedrooms and the stairs.

Managed to get a face to face at the surgery yesterday for someone to look at my leg, which is still giving me pain after falling down a step at the theatre last month. Was told that I have probably bruised my shin-bone, and could take 7/8 weeks to heal. Was also told I could resume dance classes, so that's where I'll be off to this morning, but take it gently and stop if it's too much.

Will try and brave the showers after lunch and go to the shops. Have just realised I have used the last of my batch-cooked curries, and need chicken or turkey to make another lot.

Looks like a busy day for most GNs today, so hope it's a good one.

Good morning from a cloudy but still dry Suffolk. Yesterday was warm and sunny,unlike the predictions. Sadly I keep hearing of several childrens’ sports days either being cancelled or rained off half way through after short lived but torrential downpours.

I had a lovely lunch with 3 friends yesterday with delicious seafood in a small restaurant overlooking a quiet beach near Lowestoft. Today I’m going in the opposite direction to Woodbridge to meet a different 3 friends for lunch,both groups initially work colleagues from different times in my career. Good to keep up such friendships which have deepened since retirement.

I hope that those with ongoing issues to sort out soon get a satisfactory solution and those struggling with health or other worries find comfort.

Safely home after a splendid few days away with weather better than forecast and lots a of good memories. I am however absolutely shattered so will be glad of a quiet few days. No stamina at all these days. Just as well I like being at home.

Morning Mick, morning All. There’s a heavy sky over our corner of Somerset.

Volunteering this morning and TaiChi this afternoon. We also had heating on yesterday, Mr C was frozen and I wasn’t much better.

Hope you can get some help for your daughter oops. That letter surely must do the trick grandmattie. A new summerhouse beginning roses, this one will be faultless, I know it. Get well wishes harri and all feeling unwell

Hope Friday is gentle with us all.

Good morning all from a wet Glasgow, where it is 12°C.
Once again, a very busy thread and much bizzyness!

Yesterday's visit to the dentist wasn't exactly pleasant. All that was supposed to happen was that the dentist put a new buckle over the offending tooth. I ended up with a deep filling, only then to then be told that I probably needed a crown.
The filling part wasn't the problem, it was the excruiating pain caused by the R.A. in my jaw. I had to keep asking the dentist to stop to give me some respite.
For some reason the numbing left me feeling nauseous, with a blinding headache and I ended up having to go for a lie down. Another day lost from my life.

Praying that Miss Oops get some relief, that the bank letter does the trick, GA, the summerhouse presents no problems and safe journey, Grammaretto
All those lucky grans on holiday, enjoy!

Have a good day folks.

Good morning all and it’s bright but chilly here in Essex.

I had a lovely day yesterday with my two old school pals. We went to the Stratford Olympic Park for coffee, a wander around and late lunch. They are building a V and A museum and BBC, Sadlers Wells which should be ready the end of the year. We had a look around the London College of art and fashion. Very different and interesting.

Goodness it was so windy we could hardly stand up. Whistling round the tall buildings and off the river.

I hope Missoops gets some attention and doesn’t have to wait too long in A and E. The doctors always say ‘go to A and E’. No wonder they’re run off their feet.

Harrigran and Kitty hope you feel better. Take it easy.

The sun has now disappeared and it looks like ☔️.

Off to see our Friday friends at lunchtime .

Take care all. 🌸

Good morning from a grey, damp Colchester.
I was reminded that it IS Summer yesterday when I picked a few ripe strawberries in the garden. We bought a 20p seemingly dead plant 2 years ago and this year it's flourishing.

Today the Antiques Roadshow is filming at a City Art Gallery and we have spectator tickets. It's going to be 18° with a thunderstorm forecast, so I won't be wearing the Summer dress that I planned to wear.

Love to all 🦩 x

Good morning everyone from south Manchester. The weather can’t seem to make its mind up. Sunny when we woke half an hour ago, but looks chilly out and we have grey clouds now.

Himself has been offered weekly sessions of reflexology at the MacMillan Centre, starting today, for the next six weeks. He’s looking forward to going. I can remember the days he’d have laughed at the idea. His diagnosis has changed his perception of a lot of things.

Good morning from a bright but damp South Downs. Not particularly warm and rain forecast for part of the day at only about 15c.

Pleasant afternoon with 7 other friends - half of whom are still working. We sat in the garden which was overflowing with roses, accompanied by a robin who kindly shared our tea with us. Got to hear all the gossip about work, which to me feels entirely irrelevant after 18 years retirement.

Today off to the tip with a pile of old paint pots and other bits, then the garden centre -DH wants something strong to protect his seedlings from Tofu who insists that the earth is his to use as he wishes - which does not take much imagination. We have got a very strong wire contraption which does the trick but isn’t big enough - so we are hoping we bought it from the garden centre as we can’t find it anywhere online.

If we’ve got time we thought we would just nip into Knepp and see the white stork fledglings - they have done really well this year. I love to hear their clacking.

Well enjoy your chilly summers day all.

Peace and harmony to the world.

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 12° and very grey. There was much rain last night and overnight and more forecast for today. GrandMattie fingers crossed that the amended letter does the trick. Oops poor Miss Oops. I hope the hospital can help her. Grammaretto safe journey to Denmark.
Yesterday I pottered about the garden and did some sawing of branches and weeding. My aunt by marriage, who is younger than me, popped in for a coffee and chat. I'm very fond of her and was happy to see her. I didn't do much in the afternoon except make a lasagne for dinner which tasted lovely.
Today should have been dgs1's school/nursery picnic. It's an annual event and good fun with donations going to a children's hospice. However it has been cancelled because of the weather. I might see dd and dgs2 after playgroup. I think dinner might be cheese omelette and chips and I might bake something today. I might visit mum too. There are many 'mights' in today's plan! I have a new set of golden acrylic paint to source and I'm going to start a painting for my aunt. She admired the allium one I did, so I'll paint her a smaller version. Have a good day all.

Good morning all from the Black country where there are a few bits of blue sky but still very windy.
Housework day today then over the club this evening to meet friends.
I do hope MissOops gets some treatment.
Enjoy your day everyone whatever your plans and may you all find some ☀️.

Love the photo mizuna!

Good morning everyone from Inverness, it’s bright at the moment but rain forecast for later
Hope MissOops can get some help soon oops, poor thing, also hope you’re feeling better soon harrigran
The letter sounds a very good plan gMattie I hope you get your money back pdq
A quiet day here for me, I’ve got a bit of food shopping to do but that’s about it. DD2 and family will be round later so a busy evening ahead
Safe travels Grammaretto and enjoy your holiday
Thinking of everyone with worries and struggles, hope today is gentle and take care all whatever the day brings 💐

Good morning all from a bright ish North Leicestershire where we have, apparently, a 90% chance of rain. Who'd have thought.

Our planned trip to the theatre didn't happen as I had an upset stomach - there seems to be a lot of it about.

Today, I have a hair appointment, cleaner is here and I have to go to the butcher's.

Have the best day possible everyone.

Good morning from Malta where we have blue skies and a high of 28°C forecast. It looks breezy as the trees opposite are dancing somewhat.

I had a bit of a later start today as it is Founder’s Day at DD3’s school so she has the day off. However, I am still needed at ten o’clock to watch the boys while she goes to an appointment.

That must be so worrying for you Oops and absolutely horrible for Miss Oops. Looks like a difficult day for you, I do hope she will get some help as that is too long to be so sick.

GM fingers crossed the bank will hurry up and respond to your letter and reimburse you.🙏🏻

Safe travels Grammaretto.

I will attempt to go to the DIY store today so I can get going on sprucing up the back yard. It’s too hot to sit out much but at least it will look more inviting , I hope! I do miss DH even more when things need doing, he could turn his hand to anything and I’m useless but will do my best.

Wishing you a good day .☀️