Good Morning Saturday 8th March 2025

Good morning, Michael and all GNs from a sunny South Yorkshire. I had a bad night last night. Up a couple of times feeling feverish. DS was supposed to be coming down today but has hurt his shoulder and can’t drive. It was only going to be a football match flying visit but I shall miss seeing him.
A food shop this morning and then job of the day is to clean the inside of my car. I’m ashamed of it at the moment. The boot and front footwells are very mucky from walking boots and shoes. It’s going in for a service on Monday. Then I’ll spend some time in the garden.
Welcome Sallyforth.
Have the best day you can folks.

Good morning the sun has risen early here on the east coast of Fife. It’s cold here but I’ll be nice and warm with the heating on. I’m looking forward to one of my favourite carers coming in this morning.

my ring doorbell has been on charge all night long , it’ll be good to see folks, especially the children walking by again , I miss this but hey ho it’s got to be charged.

Have a good day my friends remember to smile itll cost you nothing 💐dare I say it but I think the lurgy is leaving me oh happy days

Good morning all from Polmont where it's currently 7° and damp looking.
I'm rather disgruntled this morning. Yesterday, late afternoon, I received a phonecall from a social worker who had such a strong accent I had to ask him to repeat everything and I'm still not sure I got it all. Apparently mum is being moved to a care home on Wednesday. No-one at the care home has contacted me. Although it was one of the three I was asked to choose, the other two have been in touch over the last two years. This one hasn't. I've no idea of the room, whether it's suitable for mum, nor the cost. I would have thought the care home should have contacted me, not some random social worker. In addition who made that decision and how will it be paid? Although guardianship has been granted, my lawyer was clear that I couldn't do anything until I received the certificate which I don't yet have. I'm rather cross about it. Of course, he phoned me late on a Friday so there was no chance of getting anyone at the care home. I will phone today but I don't hold out much hope. It just seems as if someone has jumped the gun. Surely if I have Guardianship, it should be my decision. Sorry for the rant.
Because of that phonecall, I didn't sleep at all well last night. I'll have to do an Aldi shop this morning then visit mum this afternoon. Apart from that, I'll try and phone the care home. Have a good day all

Good Morning from Durham. We are expecting to see some sun today and no rain. At last I have even seen a couple of crocus and daffodils in flower.
I think I’m going to a local farm with DD2 and family later, but details are still to be confirmed. DGS2 has his football session first thing.
Harri my hyperchondriac friend ‘demanded’ treatment for her cataracts and is being seen next Monday - almost immediate action! It never fails to surprise me how she does it.

I do hope MD is responding better to her new meds now.

Best wishes to all. X

A fine morning is encouraging some very noisy birds and it feels distinctly spring like. Am looking forward to lunch with the daughter of our much missed friends - she is in the area and suggested it. Have known her since her DM and I pushed our daughters in their prams to the clinic every week, and we had many holidays and outings together so there is much shared experience.

Do hope that the poorlies are improving, especially Marydoll, who has more than her share of illness at present.

Good morning all from a sunny Black country.
Welcome Sallyforth good to have you with us👋.
Will pop to the bank I have a bill to pay and once again I will try to find some jeans, have been looking for months now and can't seem to find any.
Over to our friends this evening.
Well washing has just finished so will get that out on the line then being Saturday the usual full English is calling.
Enjoy your day everyone whatever your plans, will catch up with everybody's happenings later ☀️.

Good morning from another lovely sunny Suffolk where we have been promised a weekend of unbroken sun.

The rooks in the rookery are still busily flying back and forth with twigs in their beaks so the nest building,or repairing last years,continues. There is less activity than a week ago when we returned from holiday so I imagine they must be nearly finished.

A walk with the dog is planned at Walberswick later,just across the river from Southwold. I imagine the little rowing boat ferry won’t start til Easter but there is the footbridge further upstream. Coffee and excellent cake at the Tea Shed at an outside table I think. Who could want anything more?

Hope today is as good a day for all as it can be,especially thoseunwellor worried.

Good morning from sunny West Sussex. I am planning to be out in the garden today. I have a half dug out Kilmarnock willow which I planted during Covid - it was a bargain in B&Q when they first re-opened after the first lockdown. I feel bad but it just doesn’t do enough for our very small garden. If I can get the root out relatively undamaged I will offer it for rehoming. Then I have a clump of tall grass (stupa) to cut back and some foxgloves to plant. It will be so lovely to be outside and not battling the elements.

Grandmabatty, how upsetting to have been informed of your mum’s move that way.

Sallyforth, welcome to Mick’s lovely good morning thread.

Thoughts with the sick and those struggling with life.

Welcome Sallyforth. Keep taking the vitamins!

That's what I tell my DC as it helps me avoid the viruses 🤞

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I often have to look up some of the words you use karma!
Every day is a school day as they say! 😂

Just a fancy French word meaning “staging Shelves”.

A bit like potager which simply means vegetable garden…

Good morning all, I have lost my lengthy and entertaining, in my opinion 🤣 novella, regarding the new car insurance and collecting the car itself. As predicted, DH went rogue.😡
I thought I was being clever and put it on the clipboard, but yesterday's kept pasting. I am an old fool.🤣

Welcome to Sallyforth and congratulations to H&M and Kalu's granddaughter.

I have had a bad night, the new meds are making me very nauseous, and I am missing my heart meds and biologics, but I feel a glimmer of hope. I have no new lesions and I'm sure the ten under my tongue look smaller! I still can't eat solid food, but have made Scotch broth, which I am looking forward too. Simple pleasures. I have dropped to the same weight, I was when working. Now that is a bonus!! Onward and upwards.

I hope the travellers are safely home.

GM, you have put me in the notion for baking. However, everyone is following a healthy eating plan, and I have no-one to be an earth mother too!

Hoping your DH Baubles and the poirlies improve.
Have a lovely day, folks.

Grandmabatty, decisions were made about my mother by social workers at a meeting with health professionals, without my knowledge.
A few choice words were directed at them. I was raging. They interviewed her in her hospital bed and believed her, when she told them I was giving up my job to take care of her. They had not bothered to find out about my circumstance, nor serious health issues.
This seems to be the norm.
I hope you get it sorted. 💐

Good morning from a sunny N.Bucks.
Yesterday I had coffee with DD3. No children’s or other adults. Lovely to have her to myself for a while, as much as I love the rest of my family.
Afterwards was lunch with 3 longtime friends.
This morning we will do our local food shop for the week and this evening we are looking after DGSs 2 & 3.

Wishing all a good day .

Good morning from a cloudy and dry midlands. Two granddaughters coming tonight, hopefully. Hugs to all suffering. My sciatica will not go away. X

Morning, bright sun in S Hants, welcome to you Sallyforth. Yesterday both children rang needing help with a couple of things that meant I was up and out in my car (which needs a wash badly Greyduster) both sorted
Pub last night was very busy, managed a good catch-up with a couple of friends, comparing back exercises and bemoaning the performance of our local football team.
MrJ in a bowls match today, I’ll be in the garden with the hoe, then the greenhouse with seed trays and compost, I love having soil on my bare hands.
Rugby this afternoon and I’ll fit a brisk walk in listening to GQT.
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Good morning everyone from another bright and sunny 🌞🌞 day in Northampton. Going to be warm and sunny all day - just last week I was bundled up in winter coat and boots! However I see we are promised below freezing and sleet next Thursday.....

Enjoyed my dance classes yesterday, and then had coffee afterwards with a new dancer who I already knew from a different activity. Then to the bank as I had to raid a DGD's money box to pay for my classes!

Made and enjoyed my chicken biryani, enough for three portions so I need to get the remaining two into the freezer. Shall use the recipe again, perhaps as the base for a curry with coconut milk.

The cupboard is bare for dinner tonight and I have a fancy for a steak so shall be hopping on the bus to the shops. I also have an order to pick up in M&S. Will probably watch the rugby this afternoon.

Welcome to this lovely group Sallyforth!

Have a lovely sunshiny day everyone.

Good morning Mick and all from Sunnyside sand dunes northwest coast.
Art group yesterday and nice chat, then to pick up spectacles, the gradient is still not right. I want to be able to wear them inside as well as outside.
Has my blood pressure checked at the surgery. High as always, but the second reading ok.

Cat has left a gift of dead mouse in the porch for me. Killer😁.
Apparently it thinks I’m a c*ap hunter, so is showing me how it’s done.
Off to next village for a village hall bring and buy. I will have a walk around the village and park.

Welcome Sallyforth and thoughts to all🌺
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Good morning all,

A beautiful start to the day here with blue sky and sunshine. It’s forecast to be a warm day, too, so I might potter a bit more in the garden.

Welcome Sallyforth. I don’t post every day, but usually read through the posts at some point in the day.

Glad you enjoyed your biryani BlueSapphire.

Both posts I attempted to send yesterday refused to post and then disappeared, so I am just going to have a quick try now just to let you know that I am in the Land of the Living! Have a beautiful Spring day everyone 🪻🌷🌱☀️

Good morning everyone from sunny Lancashire. Looking like spring is sprung here. Unfortunately I am once again confined to bed after a horrendous bathroom fall on Thursday night. Couldn’t move, breathe or speak. Luckily MrB heard the crash and ran in to rescue me. It had knocked the breath right out of me, very scary. It hurts horribly to move and am feeling sorry for myself. I have found a comfortable position and nothing seems to be injured. Just horribly bruised.

Have a good weekend 🌹

Hope the new meds prove effective Marydoll Your novellas brighten my day xx

A lovely spring morning here in Co Armagh
I’ve just spotted Alliums poking through , move some ornamental stones and found more , pity I planted succulents there too , I never remember where anything is till they poke through !
Oh Blossoming you need to get the bathroom sorted with hang grips/rails , I hope the pain isn’t too bad , you poor woman

Hand grips ! Not hang !!!

I’m sorry to hear this Blossoming what a shock for you too, fingers crossed you recover speedily, I know your Mr will be providing lots of TLC x

Blossoming what a fright for you. I hope you aren't too badly bruised. Thank goodness for your dh.