Good Morning Thursday 12th December 2024

Good morning all from a very cold Glasgow.

Kalu, I'm so sorry to hear how much you are struggling. 😢 Roses, I hope you feel a bit better today. It is good to see you popping in Blossoming. I am saddened to hear of your struggles.

This extreme cold is affecting me very badly, little sleep again, due to my chest problems. and high pain levels. If I increase my opoid dosage, I will be unable to function 🥴 and I am not going down that road.
Poor DH, I was going to decant to the spare room, then realised that the bed was covered in Christmas presents. 😔

Georgesgran, I love the picture! We are hardy folk up North!

I did manage to get to the hairdresser's yesterday. What a tonic it was.
A former parent came in, whom I hadn't seen for years. She used to make the most beautiful wedding dresses, then decided to become a teacher!
Her son was one of the reasons that I decided to go down the SEN qualifications route. There was little or no support for those children, who were dismissed as difficult.
An ex classmate also arrived. There was so much hilarity, when the owner offered to tint our eyebrows as a treat. Three times she asked, but I didn't hear. ( A bit ironic, given my complaints about DH.)
Eventually everyone in the salon, shouted in unison , G. is going to tint your eyebrows . I must say, I am very pleased with my free treatment!

FGT, all the supermarkets here sell Buchanan's sweets. My favourites are Chocolate Italian Creams, However, they are rarely in stock. I hope your stepfather enjoys his treat.
I have been searching high and low for chocolate gingers for DH, but no-one seems to stock them. Thorntons no longer make them. I may be forced to make my own.

I am unable to do much today, my limitations at the moment are so frustrating! However, my beloved Dollie will be here after school, I am so looking forward to seeing her. 😍

Have the best day, you can folks.

Trying again having posted this on the wrong thread!

Good morning from cold and frosty South Lanarkshire.

Kalu I do feel for you, pain medication makes me very fuzzy headed too. Hope you feel better soon. flowers

Your energy levels put me to shame gM

Can’t remember if I commented on your nails Bella but they are fabulous.

I’m off to meet another Lanarkshire Gransnetter this morning, looking forward to it.

If any Scottish grans are interested there’s a little snippet this evening on Craft Christmas at Beechgrove. It was filmed a few weeks ago, talking about our yarn group’s Christmas Angel project. Great fun to see how the programme is made, the team was with us for over four hours but will probably result in a four minute clip.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025zst

Wishing everyone the best day possible.

I used to have my hair done regularly in Málaga Bellasnana as it was SO much cheaper! Now as we go there less frequently I still like to pop into the salon (it’s handy too - literally outside the main door f our apartment block!) and enjoy a wash and blow for only €10!

Good morning everyone from Severnside. It’s a cold one and I’m so glad the solstice is not far away. I’m getting up later these dark mornings.

I hand delivered a few cards yesterday and stopped to have a brief chat with one of the deliveries. It was a nice catch up but chilled my bones.

I then went shopping and my bags were very heavy from boot to door and putting shopping away is not a job I like.

Today I’ve a few things to get done so will plod through them as the day goes by. I’ll never be like GM and Karma.

Have a good day all 🎄

A late good morning from a cold but dry NE.
A bad start to the day as my BIL has just rung to say my sister is in hospital. She fell downstairs and has several injuries, at present waiting for a head scan.
Nothing planned for today. Will just be waiting for updates from BIL.

Marydoll Hotel Chocolat have chocolate gingers. I have just bought a few.

Outofstepwithhumanity

Marydoll Hotel Chocolat have chocolate gingers. I have just bought a few.

Thank you so much!!! That has saved me making them.

A bracing morning here. Essential chores done and having a coffee looking out at the robins pecking the feeder in minus 6 degrees.
Good wishes to all.

Marydoll we can get chocolate gingers by a company called Beech.
They are available at some , quite a few, garden centres which have food departments.
I have also seen them in the large mill outlets we have locally but perhaps you don’t have those.

Just remembered also on Amazon.
I had them sent to me as a gift.

Usedtobeblonde, thanks. I did spy Beech's the other day, but they were creams. DH only likes the crystallised ginger ones and turned his nose up, when I showed him them.
So ungrateful!
Beech's used to do the crystallised ginger ones. I think they are an acquired taste.

Marydoll Waitrose do chocolate gingers. They are my guilty pleasure at Christmas. My children always bought them for me and they were all mine- cos nobody else liked them! I have ginger preserve most mornings on my toast too. Apparently my gran was a great fan of ginger so maybe I get it from her. My mother is popping over to a certain hairdresser this afternoon- I’m wondering if they will offer her tinted eyebrows! My sister is visiting her from Limerick so that should liven up the appointment. I am so frustrated that I can’t travel to see them. All quiet here in very dank and dark Kent. Finished all my proofreading projects for the moment so back to reading for pleasure. I’m finally tackling “The Ink Black Heart” all 1200 pages - can’t read it in bed as I can’t hold it up.
Hope all the GNers have a good day!

Borrheid lovely to hear from you. ❤️
I know that they are so good to your mum. X