Good Morning Thursday 3rd April 2025

BlueSapphire, beautiful pictures, a bittersweet day for you 💐.
We’re booked for our covid boosters this afternoon, hopefully we’ll be ok.
Hairdresser appointment at 9 am then hopefully our. cleaner will come.
DD1 is borrowing our car for a week, so I hope the fine weather continues as I’ll have to walk everywhere 😂.
Get well wishes to our poorlies.

Morning all from West Oxfordshire.

We had a lovely afternoon yesterday visiting our local NT place. If was the first day of opening for the new season. We ended our look around the house and walk round the garden with a delicious cream tea. They hadn’t put the prices up!

We are off to the cinema this morning in Oxford to see a film called The End. We are taking sandwiches with us as it is over lunchtime.

Have a good day everyone. I am thinking of those with difficulties.

Good morning everyone from Inverness, we’ve another beautiful sunny day ahead
I’m off to DD2s this morning to help out with a few jobs and then we’ll be home later to enjoy the garden
Beautiful pictures BlueSapphire thanks for sharing your happy memories ❤️
Grandmabatty 💐
Thinking of everyone with worries and struggles, hope today is gentle and take care all whatever the day brings

I forgot to mention an amusing incident yesterday.
I was at the fridge getting milk; a young assistant was on his knees refilling the bottom shelf when I said loudly, “just like I like my men - at my feet”! He sniggered - as well he may. This comment coming from a wrinkled ridden, whited hair old bag…. I hope it made his day.

Morning, a touch of high cloud, I think it will burn off, it seems MrJ is at last improving🤞
Happy pictures BlueSapphire
Stretch class this morning, bedding to wash, then a walk, hose out tonight.
My best wishes to the poorlies
🦩🦩

Good morning Mick and All.

What happy photos BlueSapphire congratulations 💐

Another lovely sunny day in South Bucks.

Very sore arm after my covid jab yesterday.

Good morning from sunny Suffolk where I hope the chill wind is absent later. I’m meeting a friend for lunch and we hope to sit out a local hotel overlooking the river. If it is too chilly there is a lovely conservatory with the same view where we can retreat.

Before that I have my weekly stretch class and then a covid jab. I think this must be my 8th and hope,like all the others,apart from the first, I have the only symptom of a slightly sore arm.

Hope today is a good one for all especially those not feeling their best.

Good morning Mick and everyone from sunny Carlisle.
Yesterday, yet again, I abandoned inside jobs for outside ones.
I cleaned the car windscreen inside and out...the whole car needs a good wash but it can wait till I feel it's OK to turn the outside tap on for the summer. I then spent some time on my knees cleaning the drainage gulleys on the drive, full of sand the rain had washed out from under the block paving and with weeds growing in it. Then spent some time brushing said sand back into joints. All the time enjoying the warmth of the sun on my back.
In the afternoon, I had to water new plantings. I had a book and coffee outside too but not for long, there's a chilly easterly breeze as there often is here at this time of year.

Today, I'm off to have my hair done then it will be back for a Tesco delivery. I may do some seed sowing later and definitely some reading.

Lovely nails, Bellasnana. It's no use me having mine done as I'm a very hands on gardener, plus my nail beds are uneven.

And lovely photos, BlueSapphire

Have the best possible day everyone.

Good morning from a sunny W Kent. Art group this morning, time to pay for next term, very good value at £3 a session. Later DH has his Covid jab, mine is really painful this time. DGS4 is 22 today unfortunately Finals are looming and he has his head down working, well that’s what he told his mother 😂
Very best wishes to all

Good morning Mick and all GN's on a dry sunny but very cold North Yorkshire morning.

Been a very slow and painful morning getting up, dressed etc., have just managed to get bedding in washer and set it going, but thats it for now. Struggled to open bottles and even a plastic bag, could have cheerfully thrown it across the room, but of course didnt as wouldnt have been able to pick it up!!

Enjoyed meeting my friend for coffee yesterday. It would have been my 56th anniversary with my first husband yesterday, hard to believe it is such a long time ago. I am not as clever with all the emojis and photos on here, must learn how to do them. I will also need to learn what some of them stand for too!! As a child of about 10, I found a lovely old fan of my great aunts, and she taught me all the language and meanings of the fan - oh yes , they may not have had email, but knew how to send messages to young men across the room etc!! Well now I need to make sure that I learn about the emojis as I have gathered that what is meant as an innocent comment could be rather rude!

So just hobbling about and waiting for pain killers to give me some relief, then out to take cover off the yellow peril. I have a meeting at the library this morning and can get there and get parked up easier than with a car. There is a talk and then we are doing various games. I am going to teach the basics of whist to a group, but as they range from some who have played cards in some way before and at least know the suits etc, and a lady who claims she doesnt know the names of the suits, it might be slow going. I can understand not playing cars but find it quite amazing that someone of over 60 doesnt even know the suits! I might need patience to end up teaching her patience so that she can learn that whilst I try to sort the others out.!!

Well that and hopefully getting my washing on the line and dry is all I am planning, and just see what else I can manage later. Still I am grateful that I have managed to get up to swaledale and if the weather warms up a bit more, might be able to take my book outside and sit in the sun.

grandMattie, hope your other eye settles down well.
Bellasnana Very smart nails. My nails are clean, but have been breaking easily , so would be a waste of time getting them painted, but do enjoy seeing some quite spectacular ones around.
Marydoll do hope you are feeling a bit better now.

Wishing everyone an improving day healthwise and that there is something to enjoy. (suggest you dont watch the news!)

Good morning everyone from south Manchester where it’s a beautiful sunny start to the day. Bit blowy though at present. Alexa says 7°C now and 18°C later.

On arriving home last night we had to put all our clocks forward the hour! I noticed at the front door the yellow rose shrub we potted in November to celebrate our golden wedding anniversary has come on even in a week! New glossy leaves it looks small yet but promisingly healthy.

I got a great bargain at duty free at Málaga airport. I picked up a bottle of Gucci ‘Bloom’. Considered the smaller bottle then decided ‘nah’ because I ❤️ it and I treated myself to the €129 size, took it to the till and there was a huge discount (not shown at the shelves) and I was only charged €69. Huge grin from me! Don’t you just love it when you’re buying something anyway and then find it’s on offer? 😁

The pic is Cesar cutting the grass and setting out the sun loungers in preparation for Easter holidays! He said he’s going to clean the pools today and tomorrow - access is taped off during the winter months.

BlueSaphire beautiful wedding day photos.

Bellasnana I love your nails, I opted for boring pink 🤷‍♀️

Good morning everyone. It’s a beautiful sunny morning in Lancashire. Today I will be working with Physio.

Good morning everyone.

Hoped to sit out in the sun yesterday after we returned from shopping as it stated it was 18c in the car, but there was a very fierce wind blowing the lids of our recycling boxes and rattling the conservatory and gates so couldn’t.

Your wedding photos are lovely BlueSapphire. You both looked so happy. I hope you are out of hospital very soon Blossoming. Have a lovely prom walk with Babydoll MD.

Have a good day all.

Good morning from Shropshire.Another sunny day forecast.

A quiet day planned as yesterdays outing exhausted me🙄

Thoughts to all.

A sunny good morning from Co Armagh
I spent too much at the garden center yesterday 🤣
Planted a rhubarb crown in the evening
All ornaments removed from the bedroom windowsill and tender things there , hardier stuff placed ready for planting when time allows
One solar ornament back in the box , it “ twinkles “ in a most irritating manner , younges daughter will like it !
Today I’ll try and remove the delightful aroma of chicken poo pellets from my bag , the bag is attached to my rolator and is very useful but a different perfume is preferred 😳
Mass this am , then , hopefully, coffee with my neighbour , then home to lunch and try to stay awake !
Wishing everyone a good day
Blossoming I hope the Physio is useful and gentle xx

Good morning from 9C Sunnyside sandhills northwest coast.
I’ve had a gadabout few days, music club, midday recital (jazz, not really my ‘bag’ as they say) folk club, one man show and last night to local drama society play, very well done. I sat on the front row, which I like. I’m thinking of joining the drama society, but already seem to have enough going on with art thrown into the mix…

Off to the doc soon to check a mole and mention my hernia op’ pain. I hope it hasn’t failed 😨
Thoughts to all as always🌺

Nothing planned for today but with sunshine forecast outside beckons where there is always a little job or two.

Thinking about my rose shrub reminded me of WhiteWave. I know she posts on other threads but has given up on us it seems! I used to love hearing about her garden and wildlife visitors.

Good morning and we’re all upside down.
Dh in hospital with suspected stroke.
Having a scan today.

How life turns in a sixpence. 😢

Hope your days are ‘good’ ones.🙏

Oh Gingster I am so sorry to hear that news.
I hope he got there in time for treatment to start.
This can be done if it is a certain type of stroke and is very successful.
Very best wishes to you all and Ihope you find some time to rest and gather yourself.

Gingster 🙏🏻

Oh Gingster, thinking of you and your DH.

I am so very sorry Ginster, that is devastating. It also happened to my dear active neighbour, out of the blue and to my mum. You might get good news so hang in there

Good morning everyone. I am here, but after the death of my DS, I'm functioning at a very low level. Thank goodness for the sunshine and the kindness of people.

Sorry to read that you're still so unwell Marydoll and my sympathy to you Grandmabatty as you struggle to deal with your mother's funeral. Hope your recovery is going well Bonnybanko and you'll soon be home.

Enjoy these lovely days everyone.