Good Morning Friday 20th December 2024

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RosiesMaw, sorry to hear of your bereavement 💐

Harrigran, it sounds as though your sister will be well ‘patched up’ but it must be quite uncomfortable for her at the moment, especially the nose splints.

Grammaretto, what a shame about missing the organ recital. Hope your appointment and journey go alright.

Ha! I wish uttb.
Himself always tells me I can’t be lucky in love AND money!
🤣

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Oh utbb 😱
I partly think I won’t bother … but curiosity will get the better of me! I’ll report back when I’ve been!

When I lived in Kent, the very local PO allowed you to examine the letter/parcel and decide whether to pay the surcharge. It was jolly nice of them…. And usually some flyer or a letter of no importance!

I had a surcharge of £7.00 to pay when it was my birthday in September. I forgot all about going to collect it. About 3 weeks later it was delivered. Turned out to be a scented candle sent by a friend.

I think there was no return address on the parcel, so they delivered it anyway

It might be a large unexpected cheque so you really must pick it up 😉😎

Oh utbb 😱
I partly think I won’t bother … but curiosity will get the better of me! I’ll report back when I’ve been!

Mostly when picking up packages with a surcharge it is a Christmas or Birthday card when the sender has used an out of date stamp, mostly last years left over Christmas stamp or a letter one instead of a large letter one.
It is mostly always a disappointment and from someone you seldom see and just exchange a yearly card.
I speak from experience.

Good morning all,

I haven’t posted on this thread much of late, but hope you’re all alright.

Just having a quick coffee before going to the hairdressers.

I don’t expect you’re reading this mick, but if you are, please go and see your GP about your continued weight loss - it needs investigating.

Just read the post from Primrose on another thread and am so pleased to hear of her DH improvement. Good news indeed.

I will go back and read all your posts now.

We have something to pick up from local sorting office no idea what but the underpaid charge is £2.50

Me too monk I hear. Will have to go tomorrow now as I’m over with L’il Miss. Will we be joyful (whatever it is) or disappointed!

Delightful Taichinan enjoy your lunch 🎄

Not a poster, but a reader.

Sending condolences to Rosie'sMaw on reading about the death of your sister

Birthday greetings to Grannygravy DH
harrigran💐

Good morning from a grey but dry NE.
Today would have been DH's 80th birthday, sad day for me.
DD travelling to the UK and hopefully I will see her tomorrow.
Message from my sister, in hospital in Germany, ENT surgeon visited and she should have the splints out of her nose on the 27th. She has been told the neck brace will have to remain for 13 weeks and also has to have an operation on one knee, that injury wasn't mentioned before.
I am still in the dark as to how the accident happened, she has not told anyone.
Going to do some housework because the whole family are coming tomorrow.
Have a good day everyone.

Already watched this with L’il Miss! Aw. 🎄animations are so sweet. Especially when watching with a grandchild …. 🥰

Good morning Mick and all from bright Berkshire. Good journey by train down from the north yesterday, but my back is complaining bitterly. My (not massive) suitcase is to blame I think.

Flying daughter arrived from Athens later in the evening and is working today. I intend to go into Windsor and hope the back calms down…

Condolences RosiesMaw birthday greetings Grannygravy DH and thoughts to all.🎄

Good morning all. The sky's just beginning to lighten on the Angus coast but no idea what the weather is going to do except it's "5° cooler than yesterday".
I'm so sorry Rosiesmaw. Such sad news for you
Safe trip to Cambridge Brook and have a lovely pre-Christmas time.
I'm off to Stirling for lunch and to meet up with DS1 and his wife, but mostly to see Li'l Ollie, my great grandson. Stirling is the halfway point between our homes so a good place for a Christmas sleigh exchange! As it's not far from where DGDs 1 and 3 live, they're coming too. I'm really childishly excited!!
Have a lovely day everyone 🎄🎁🎶

Taking my neighbour with Altzheimers to oldies’ coffee morning and a little light shopping but no other plans for the day. Must remember to post a 60th birthday card to ensure it arrives for just after Christmas. How can someone I knew in her pram be 60? Doesn’t seem possible.

Morning from a frosty S Hants. Happy Birthday MrGG13 🎂🥂and a smooth journey for you brook.
Wrapping all done now, apart from wrapping for each other, beds remade and food delivery stashed.
Grandchildren staying tonight, my daughter is out with work colleagues, it’s a well deserved social evening for her.
MrJ on his last voluntary drive this year, I’ll have a downstairs tidy up.
🦩🦩

Good morning all, from a wet Glasgow, where it is 7°C.

My condolences, Maw.💐

Such a long journey, for a short appointment Grammaretto. Could it not be done locally and tbe results shared? That's what happened to me, when I had to attend the Jubilee. Take care. X

Safe journey, journey brook and enjoy your time with your family.

Stilllearning, I think I may have stayed in your hotel. I hope you can manage to squeeze in a trip to House of Bruar.

There is no point in urging Mick to see a doctor, for he continues to disregard the advice of GM posters. 😪 Why post about it, then not come back and respond?

Another busy day ahead and I just don't have the energy nor stamina for it. DH forgot to put the pram back in the car yesterday, so an hour round trip is required. 😡
Babydoll needs it for nursery for her nap. She keeps the other toddlers awake by her giggling, if they put her in a cot, but will sleep in her pram.
She refused to nap yesterday, so it was a very long day, but she was such good fun and so entertaining.

I wish you all a pleasant day, whatever your plans. As always, those with worries and sorrow are in my thoughts.

Oh Rosiesmaw2 sending you (((hugs)))

I know that feeling of having nobody around you with shared memory 😿

Good morning Mick and everyone from what looks like a damp Carlisle...too dark to tell!
Mick understandably, you don't want to confront your worst fears, but really, you must! You may well find there's a simple remedy but if not, your problem will be all the worse to sort if left. You need to lay out your worries to the professionals and get action. Please!

On the home front here, I have had 6 hours of solid, deep sleep, pain-free. Unheard of for years as I regularly have to wake for eye drop applications.. The steroids may be helping that problem too? Sadly my body deems that 6 hours is quite enough so I have been awake since 4.30am.

I'm off early to the hairdressers then it's back to a myriad of little jobs. Later, I may plough on with the Merkel memoirs, the nitty gritty detail of German politics is proving a tad tedious.

Maw that's very sad for you even though she was lost to you years ago.

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

Today DD is having a PET scan and this entails having radioactive dye put through her. Consequently 9 yr old DGD can’t be near her mum for 8 plus hours, so I’m picking her up and bringing her back here .

We’ll do some Christmas baking and she’ll decorate her gingerbread house that she assembled last Sunday. It should be nicely set by now. 🤞.

I have my Chimes concert at a local towns library and have to be there by 4.45 - I’ll take DGD along but I’m dreading the traffic at that time, getting through my town and across The Weir. You understand what I mean GG.🙄. I’ll have to give myself plenty of time- they can’t start without me 😂.

Condolences Maw.
Have a lovely time with your family Brooke.
Happy birthday Mr GG.

Take care at this busy time.🎄

Ps. When I got in my car yesterday morning, the glove compartment was open and items strewn over the seat and floor. I asked Dh and he hadn’t been in the car, so we assume it was broken into looking for money, valuables etc.. strangely no sign of breakin. We always lock the car, so it’s a mystery !

Lots of love to all 🌟

Good morning all from a dark but dry Black country.
Condolences Maw 💐
DH should have had bloods taken today but they've been cancelled due to sickness at the surgery.
We have something to pick up from local sorting office no idea what but the underpaid charge is £2.50.
Bellasnanna my grandsons have hours of fun with Thomas the Tank trains, they where my Great nephews.
Meeting friends later at the club.
Enjoy your day everyone whatever your plans ☀️