Good Morning Thursday 20th February 2025

Good morning from Malta where it is raining and expected to keep raining until midday. Temperature only going to feel like 15°C.

I’m streaming with yet another cold, don’t remember ever having so many one after the other.

Felt so rotten last night I slept on the sofa as I could prop myself up better than in bed to try to avoid the wretched coughing.

Am off to look after the boys , it won’t be much fun if we can’t get out but they will play happily whatever.

Littlest has to go into hospital for a small operation next Tuesday. Poor little chap, I wish they’d done it when he was tiny so he wouldn’t remember it but they said he’d gone through enough after being poked and prodded for 7 weeks in the NICU.

DD3 is off to Florence and Bologna with a friend for the weekend so SiL and myself will be having the boys. I wish I didn’t feel so rotten as I won’t even get Saturday to recharge my batteries.

Had lovely photos of DGD Arabella in the US as softball season has started and she plays on two teams. It looks a lot of fun (hard work too) and I’m so glad she’s out enjoying the company of her friends rather than spending time on social media. She turns 14 on Saturday which I can’t believe! She’s the reason I joined Gransnet.

Well, I had better brave the rain and get going. Wishing you all a good day.☀️

Good morning from Bristol. It has rained all night although it’s dry atm.
The FAB cafe went well, including one lady who is normally problematic with he4 opinion, often distressing those she talks to. Cake and biscuits went down well. The vicar partakes with gusto!
The Ladies’ Guild in the afternoon as also fine. After nearly two years, people have started talking to me! I was tired and dozed off during the talk. The booked speaker went to hospital as an emergency, this chap was an 11th hour replacement. The talk was about the history of a neighbouring village.
Again, as I was tired, I did very little when I got home.
Tai chi this morning.
DD is coming to dinner this evening. Her family is away, and as I haven’t seen her in over a fortnight, she invited herself. Shakshouka for dinner.
Have @ good day and hope you don’t get too wet.
Carpe diem 🦩🦩🦩🦩

Good morning Mick, it’s wet here too in south Glos. I’ve woken up to find that the boiler has come on, I have reset the thermostat but I don’t have any idea why it’s happened 😵‍💫
I’ve left a message for a friend’s husband who’s a heating engineer, hoping he’ll get back to me today.
I didn’t get much done yesterday, just faffed around and walked the dog, one of those non-days really. I want to do a longer walk today but that will depend on the boiler situation I guess, I can’t rely on DH to convey the right information anymore so I will need to be here.
Happy Thursday everyone 🌹