Good Morning Wednesday 23rd April 2025

Good morning from Cambridgeshire where it rained overnight, my garden needed it.
I have two rhododendrons about to flower and my tree peony is on bloom.

This morning we are with DD2 helping with various little jobs but not a lot else going on. I may go to the new garden centre that has recently opened locally this afternoon. Otherwise a quiet day planned here.

Take care and have a good day everyone.

Morning all from a very wet and grey West Oxfordshire.

After yesterday’s busyness, a quieter day today.

I will pop down to the post office and post my great nephew’s birthday present to Australia. It is a dinosaur based present! Then I will drive OH to a small riverside town about half an hour away for lunch. It is full of antique shops so after lunch OH wants a look around to see if any of them have any old tools! I wondered why as he isn’t a handyman by any stretch of the imagination!

Have a good day. I’m thinking of MaryD and FGT2.

Good morning all. A beautiful sunrise is always a welcome start to the day like this morning in Glasgow.

I had my first of the year al fresco espresso yesterday morning. Only possible as it was milder without a chilly wind. As it is another promising pleasant day I will visit a local Scottish Trust garden. I haven’t taken any pain relief for a week now that sciatica has reduced to bearable twinges first thing until I start moving. Progress at last!

Hoping you are feeling a bit better today MD
also your DH Gingster

Best wishes to all for a pleasant/more pleasant day for those in need of one.

Good morning from s somerset, dull and rain here today, maybe a few pops of sun

Garden stuff done yesterday, a few weeds, sowing more seeds, transplanting lettuces etc. I also see signs of life from some begonia tubers, they spend time in the garage every night and on cooler days

I picked the wrong time to wash my trainers yesterday, they are still soaking wet and will take ages to dry, I was thinking of lighting a fire today as the temperature has cooled inside. I will do that and can keep the trainers near the stove. I tried my trainer wash bags yesterday. They were perfect in the machine, I have a trainers setting and the machine was gentle with no thuds

I need to go to the greengrocers today, I have run out of veg and need some for guests tomorrow, I think I will do a big tin of roasted veg. I`ll walk there at 9 and light a top down fire afterwards. I have a bit of cleaning downstairs, will be finished by lunchtime and then I will enjoy being cosy with a book

Have a good day

Happy St. George’s Day. (Unlike the other countries of the UK, we English rarely celebrate our patron saint).
Good morning from a soggy Bristol. It has rained all night. It is supposed to ease off soon.
I had an unexpectedly busy day.
I finished cooking the piccalilli, then later, washed and labelled them. I had had to design, print and cut them out first. madeleine, I personally can’t stand piccalilli or chutneys; they are very English flavours. DH used to tell me I was racist for those comments!😂)
Two loads of washing on the line, then folded, ironed and put away.
I got on really well with my quilt, still a lot to do can see the goal posts.
The chiropodist came very late, and did my feet - they really needed it!
Got a message from the vicar. A parishioner is 96 today, would I make a cake for him at the Fab cafe? Of course, sigh.
Then two lovely things happened- firstly, I needed one egg for said cake but didn’t want to go to the village. My neighbour upstairs obliged.
Then the doorbell went, and it was my new neighbour brandishing two stick of rhubarb and a bunch of asparagus! She has been using my Wi-Fi, which reaches her house, since she moved in recently. BT and her server are not being very helpful in providing her with it. As I use mine very little, it’s no problem letting her use it. The greenery was in thanks - I’m very fond of both!
Today, I’m serving at the FAB cafe. I hope we have a few more attendees than last week.
Lovely azalea, Fgt, the scent is gorgeous. MD, I hope you feel more comfortable and everyone else’s day is less stressed and anxiety ridden.
Carpe diem, dear friends. 🦩🦩🦩🦩

Good morning Mick and all to follow from a dry north Wales although we had a downpour ⛈️last night as we retired, the gardeners will be grateful I’m sure!

That Azalea is stunning FGT, we don’t have anything as eye catching blooming yet (the fuchsias are just budding) but here are my wild proper English bluebells to be getting on with 😉

Hope GG is having a great time in Andalusia and the cruisers too 🍹- Athens is marvellous and so walkable I found.

Hope all unwell feel better soon and Sally isn’t suffering too much with tinnitus after her Spanish spree.

A quiet but pleasant day pottering for us, I enjoy that sort too 🤗